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Grant Holley
A founding partner of the firm, Grant enjoys helping people do business well. With more than a quarter of a century’s experience as a legal professional, and more than 15 years as an educator in commercial law, his skills set makes him an effective professional who leads well and naturally engenders stakeholder buy-in. Read More... |
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Tim Nethercote
Tim enjoys providing practical and satisfactory outcomes for clients. His experience has been that legal proceedings can be a blunt instrument for achieving this (but at times, necessary); hence the focus on preventative law and providing training and compliance solutions. Read More... |
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Paul Derham
Paul's expertise is in financial service law and commercial law. Since 2001, Paul has assisted participants in the financial services industry in complying with their legal and compliance obligations. Read More... |
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Sonnie Bailey
Sonnie provides legal advice and compliance support to businesses in the financial services industry. Prior to working with Holley Nethercote he worked for two of the big four banks. He has also worked in a legal/compliance role for a publicly listed company which was responsible entity for several registered managed investment schemes. Read More... |
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David Court
David is a Senior Lawyer working across the financial services and commercial practice areas of the firm. He has more than 20 years’ of technical and practical experience in corporate, commercial and financial services law. His particular expertise relates to the management and public offering of superannuation and managed investment products. Read More... |
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Naomi Fink
Naomi has worked with Holley Nethercote since 2002, providing advice in the areas of: business purchases and sales; contracts; employment and workplace relations; franchising; financial services; leasing; licencing and services agreements; privacy; and trade practices. She also has expertise in intellectual property. Read More... |
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Samantha Hills
Sam works primarily in the area of financial services law. Her clients are typically financial services licensees, including financial planning dealer groups, telemarketers, fund managers, online FX platforms and others. Read More... |
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Christopher Lim
After spending two years with the Advisory Department of Ernst & Young, Christopher joined Holley Nethercote in 2009, bringing a technical and analytical approach to the law. Read More... |
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Ian McDermott
An ex-PR and marketing practitioner later turned lawyer, Ian prides himself on bringing broad, real-world perspective to his advice. He provides both financial and commercial law counsel and services. Ian’s focus is on helping clients avoid legal problems, manage their risks and meet their regulatory obligations. Read More... |
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Melanie Sherrin
After a long career in politics and public service, Mel made a major career change and become a lawyer. At the time, it seemed like a good idea! Read More... |
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Kathryn Wardrobe
Kathryn’s areas of practice includes financial services and general commercial law-related matters. Much of her work has been in the consumer credit space, completing Australian Credit Licence applications, conducting licensee reviews, and conducting training on the consumer credit licensing regime and for responsible managers of Australian Credit licensees. She is also experienced in debt recovery and litigation. Read More... |
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Catherine Chandler
Catherine is Executive Assistant to Grant Holley, Tim Nethercote and Paul Derham. In addition to providing personal assistance to the firm’s partners, she is also involved with coordinating training and compliance courses run by Compact. Read More... |
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Sarah Holley
Sarah has been studying Arts/ Law at Monash University since 2009. She has been with Holley Nethercote as an intern since March 2010 but feels she is already half way to being partner thanks to her surname. Read More... |
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Megan Jaksa
Megan commenced with Holley Nethercote as an intern in March 2011 after moving into law from a career in finance and regulation, when she was most recently an with ASIC assessing Australian Financial Services (AFS) Licence applications. Prior to that, Megan worked with Macquarie Bank as an account executive. Read More... |
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Dianne Soisoi
Di is part of the furniture as she has been with Holley Nethercote and Compact since July 2001. Di has completed her Certificate 3 in business administration and has had various roles throughout the office. She is currently a PA to various lawyers in the office. Read More... |
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Ruth Treleaven
Ruth has worked in legal firms for nearly 30 years. She has worked for a number of different law firms during this time as a personal assistant, law clerk and, for the last 9 years, as an office manager. Ruth holds a Diploma of Legal Practice Management from the University of New England and is a member of the Australian Legal Practice Managers’ Association. Read More... |
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Chris Wallace
Chris is currently studying an Arts (Politics) and Law double degree at Monash University, having finished school in 2008. Read More... |
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Robyn Walters
Robyn works in administration assisting in co-ordinating training courses and happily attending to general office procedures. Read More... |
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