As a commercial litigator and adviser at Lander & Rogers, Patrick has experience in a range of areas including commercial disputes, regulatory investigations, insolvency and dispute-avoidance measures. Patrick’s career has spanned a number of industries including financial services, transport and logistics, gaming and wagering, building and construction, funds management, retail, healthcare and education.
Experience
Patrick maintains a committed and proactive approach when assisting clients, whether through litigation in all major courts and tribunals across Australia, giving strategic advice, or improving the way clients manage business risk. He has worked in high-performing and committed teams in a number of large-scale disputes involving domestic and international clients in a variety of contexts while he has also managed medium-sized litigation files. Further, Patrick has experience with assisting institutional and private clients in land tax disputes in which complex and technical statutory interpretation issues frequently arise.
Career highlights
Patrick's career highlights include acting for:
- Hollard Group in respect of its appearance before the House of Representatives Economic Committee's inquiry into insurer responses to the 2022 floods
- a major online trading platform in a share sale agreement dispute in excess of $100m in the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- Woolworths Limited in a number of supplier-related disputes in Victoria and NSW
- a major fund manager defending a proceeding issued by unitholders in the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- an online food order and delivery company in respect of a number of regulatory matters
- a major university in Victoria regarding a leasing dispute
- Endeavour Group Limited in respect of regulatory disputes and issues
- a number of companies and their directors in respect of ASIC investigations various bookmakers in respect of regulatory advice.