Team Members

Clinton Jackson

Partner
List as Best Lawyers’ 2023 Brisbane Superannuation ‘Lawyer of the Year’, Clinton Jackson is the chosen adviser of a number of entrepreneurs, high net worth family groups and iconic businesses.

As part of Cooper Grace Ward’s commercial team, Clinton advises his clients on an extensive range of commercial and corporate matters, business mergers, acquisitions and sales, tax and structuring issues, self-managed superannuation, asset protection and succession, restructuring and exit strategies.

Clinton’s unique range of expertise enables him to assist his clients with both their personal and business legal issues and to advise through all phases of the business/investment lifecycle – from start up, growth, expansion, transition and exit.

He is passionate about ensuring his clients receive the most accurate, cost effective and commercial advice.

Clinton is an accredited specialist superannuation adviser with the SMSF Association and is a highly sought-after speaker who regularly presents at seminars and conferences on a range of topics for the Tax Institute, the Television Education Network, the Queensland Law Society, SMSF Association and Institute of Chartered Accountants.

  • Solicitor – Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws – Queensland University of Technology
  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice – Queensland University of Technology
  • Member – SMSF Association
  • SMSF Specialist Adviser – SMSF Association
  • Queensland State Chapter Committee Member – SMSF Association
  • Member – Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Recommended Lawyer – Wills, Estates and Succession Planning – Doyles Guide (2023 and 2025), Leading Lawyer – Estates & Succession Planning – (2021)
  • Listed in Superannuation Law and Wealth Management / Succession Planning Practice – Best Lawyers Australia since 2019
  • Brisbane Superannuation Lawyer of the Year – Best Lawyers Australia 2023
  • Acted on the sale and purchase of day hospitals, specialist medical groups, medical practices, dental practices and pharmaceutical businesses.
  • Advised and assisted clients with the establishment, sale and purchase of numerous accounting, financial planning, mortgage brokering, insurance brokering, investment management businesses and legal practices.
  • Providing advice in relation to joint venture and debt funding arrangements.
  • Advised on the sale of supermarket businesses and commercial premises.
  • Advice and implementation of capital raisings and employee share schemes.
  • Specialist advice in relation to the structuring of property development ventures, including the investment by self-managed superannuation funds.
  • Providing tax, other revenue and superannuation law advice to a range of private clients and a large number of accounting and financial advice firms, including preparation objections to the ATO and Offices of State Revenue.
  • Providing advice to trustees in relation to their obligations and powers under trust deeds, including seeking directions from the Supreme Court.
  • Provided advice to public authorities on:
    • Procurement and competition issues
    • Acquisition and disposal of assets (including from/to government owned corporations)
    • Funding arrangements with the UK government and local organisations
    • Provision of health care services to the public
    • Development of Dubai World Ports
    • Their constitutions and corporate governance practices
    • Internal policies and procedures.

Areas of Expertise

Publications

Cooper Grace Ward recognised for excellence in Wills, Estates and Succession law

Doyles Guide has released its rankings for Wills, Estates, Estates Litigation and Succession Planning Lawyers and Law Firms in Queensland for 2025, and Cooper Grace Ward has once again performed exceptionally well.

It depends - Trust vesting

In this edition of It depends, partner Clinton Jackson discusses the peculiarities of trust vesting.

Queensland trusts can now run for 125 years – what you need to know

In a significant boost to tax planning arrangements and intergenerational wealth management, Queensland trusts will be able to run for 125 years from 1 August 2025. This change, introduced under the Property Law Act 2023 (Qld), will increase the current maximum life of trusts (called the perpetuity period or vesting period) by 45 years to 125 years (up from the existing 80-year limit).