Adelaide Hayes
Adelaide is a special counsel in our corporate and commercial team with wide ranging experience in transactional and corporate advisory work such as complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, shareholder issues and agreements and business sale and share sale transactions. Adelaide also regularly assists clients with matters related to trade mark registration and protection, […]
Marcus Ford
Marcus is the head of property development within the property, planning and environment team at Cooper Grace Ward. Marcus has been actively involved in the development industry for more than 25 years. His practice areas include strategic advice for property developers of large master planned communities, including commercial, retail and residential; infrastructure agreements and arrangements; […]
Damien Jarrett
Damien is a special counsel in the insurance team at Cooper Grace Ward. His areas of expertise include personal injuries claims, workers’ compensation, life insurance/TPD and litigation and dispute resolution. Damien has extensive experience across personal injury claims management and advisory work under the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 and the Personal Injuries Proceedings […]
Vanessa Thompson
As a special counsel in Cooper Grace Ward’s property, planning and environment team, Vanessa brings together a detailed understanding of the law and a practical solution-focussed approach to achieve the best outcomes for her clients. Vanessa has extensive experience as a strategic adviser and litigator acting for a broad range of clients. These include developers, […]
Ben Williams
Ben Williams is a special counsel in Cooper Grace Ward’s litigation and dispute resolution group. Ben’s experience has broadly focused on insolvency related matters and dispute resolution. This insolvency experience has included advising clients in relation to liquidations, administrations, receiverships, deeds of company arrangements and bankruptcy appointments. He has also acted in proceedings for the […]
Laura Gahan
Laura is a real estate lawyer who assists clients across varying property classes with acquisitions, disposals, leasing, development, disputes and asset management. Her multi-disciplinary approach means that she anticipates potential obstacles early and is able to consolidate Cooper Grace Ward’s broad expertise to ensure transactions proceed smoothly. Laura works with large corporations, family businesses and […]
David Grace
David is a consultant within the firm’s corporate advisory team, specialising in company law and practice and in competition and consumer law. He also advises extensively on the duties and responsibilities of directors and officers. David’s commercial approach to legal problem solving and his knowledge of risk management systems are grounded in his extensive experience […]
Charles Sweeney
Charles is managing partner of Cooper Grace Ward and leads the corporate advisory group. Charles provides wide-ranging general commercial advice to clients, with particular areas of focus including corporate advisory and intellectual property / information technology. Acting for listed and unlisted public and private clients, Charles advises across a broad range of industries, including agribusiness, […]
Clinton Jackson
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 […]
Miranda Klibbe
Miranda is a partner in Cooper Grace Ward’s litigation and dispute resolution team. She acts for both large corporate clients and private clients on a wide variety of litigated matters. With a proven track record of delivering commercially focused advice to Australian and multinational businesses, Miranda manages complex, high‑value disputes across a broad range of […]
Clive Nichol
Clive has a well-earned reputation as an expert in shopping centre leasing and management. He is also a very experienced capital transactions lawyer and has acted in the sale and purchase of some of Queensland’s major shopping centres and commercial buildings. His general commercial advice has helped some of Queensland’s most successful small to medium-sized […]
Chris Ward
Chris Ward has been a litigator for nearly all of his 45+ years of practice, focusing on the areas of family law, insurance law and commercial litigation. His current practice is in family law mediation services which he offers through Chris Ward Mediations. In this specialist area of mediation, Chris draws on his extensive family law […]