Angeline Cheng
Angeline works closely with clients to understand their commercial objectives, providing practical and tailored advice throughout each stage of a transaction. She values building strong relationships and delivering commercially focused outcomes. Drawing on experience across property development, acquisitions and disposals, and development finance, Angeline enjoys finding practical solutions to legal challenges and helping clients navigate […]
Steven Cawood
Steven’s experience extends to providing legal advice on acquisitions and sales, stakeholder agreements, structuring issues, self-managed superannuation, trusts and asset protection. He has assisted a variety of clients, ranging from individuals, to accounting and financial advisers, family businesses and large corporate groups.
James Brookes
As an associate in Cooper Grace Ward’s corporate advisory group, James provides practical advice and legal support on mergers and acquisitions, Australia’s foreign investment regime, corporate governance, shareholder issues, and projects within the energy and resources sector. He works with a diverse range of clients and is committed to delivering clear, commercially focused solutions
Ellie Geurts
As an associate in our litigation and dispute resolution team, Ellie has experience working in complex commercial litigation, tortious and contractual disputes across both state and federal jurisdictions, with a particular interest in professional indemnity and negligence claims. She has experience representing a diverse range of clients, including large insurers, government bodies and private individuals, […]
Max Carlyon
As an associate in our litigation and dispute resolution team, Max works on a broad range of matters with specific expertise in construction litigation, corporate governance and regulatory investigations, contractual disputes, and defamation actions. Max’s experience spans a diverse client base, from individuals to large corporate groups. He regularly collaborates with in-house counsel and other […]
Shylaja Woolley
Shylaja also works on the acquisition, development, leasing and disposal of commercial, industrial, and residential properties, as well as undertaking the full range of general property work. Shylaja’s ability to critically analyse complex legal issues comes from 10 years post-admission experience, primarily in property and commercial law, complemented by additional experience across multiple legal disciplines. […]
Serena Paramananthan
In the course of her career, Serena has advised both institutional landlords and national tenants, managing transactions end-to-end and delivering clear, commercially focused outcomes. Serena is skilled in drafting and negotiating leases, agreements for lease and related documentation, and provides strategic advice on risk allocation and compliance. Her career spans both top-tier firms and in-house […]
Aiyana O’Meara
Aiyana acts for clients across a broad range of sizes and industries, from small businesses to large enterprises, including employers in the public sector. She offers clear and practical advice, tailored to each client’s specific needs. With a keen eye for detail, Aiyana simplifies complex issues to their essential points for easy client understanding. She […]
Stuart Miller
Stuart provides expert advice on project delivery strategies, negotiating and drafting of contracts and other project documentation, risk management, regulatory compliance and contract administration. His work spans commercial, retail and leisure, residential, industrial and manufacturing, agribusiness and food, structural, civil and process engineering, heavy industries, health, retirement living and aged care, essential services, consultancy, statutory […]
Terry Stavrianos
Terry has worked with a diverse client base, from individuals and Queensland‑based companies to internationally listed entities. His experience across a variety of industries enables him to tailor solutions to meet the unique needs of his clients. Before joining our firm, Terry gained experience at an international law firm, practising corporate law and worked on […]
Francesca da Silva
Francesca is an associate in the private client team at Cooper Grace Ward, assisting clients in a range of succession matters focused on estate administration, estate disputes and superannuation. She also assists clients with estate planning and matters involving guardianship and administration, capacity and elder law.
Courtney Linton
Courtney partners with clients to navigate complex legal challenges and deliver practical, results-driven solutions. She has extensive experience in the commercial litigation sphere, acting in corporate and governance disputes, fraud, contractual disputes, defamation matters and privacy disputes. Before joining Cooper Grace Ward, Courtney worked at a national law firm where she specialised in litigation and […]