The six partners and four special counsel are evenly split between male and female lawyers
Gilbert + Tobin (G+T) has grown its senior ranks with the promotion of six new partners and four new special counsel.
The promotions, evenly split between male and female lawyers, represent a wide range of core practice areas, including disputes and investigations, corporate advisory, competition and regulation, technology and digital, energy and resources, real estate, and IP.
The firm’s newly promoted partners are Rebecca Dunn, Melissa Fai, Philippa Hofbrucker, Tim Kennedy, Kevin Ko, and Matt Mackenzie.
Dunn specialises in IP litigation and technology disputes and is also known for her social media, privacy, data protection, and defamation expertise.
Rebecca Dunn
Fai has a focus on complex commercial and technology transactions and is also an expert in data and privacy and the use of technology and data in meeting legislative and business requirements.
Melissa Fai
Hofbrucker, who is an expert in disputes and investigations, has extensive experience advising clients in Australia and the UK. She has particular expertise in financial services clients and matters, including regulation and compliance.
Philippa Hofbrucker
Kennedy is known for his work on projects and transactions in energy and resources, with a focus on power, renewables, and oil and gas. He has extensive experience in project development, M&A, joint ventures, and offtake agreements.
Tim Kennedy
Ko advises on strategic M&A and corporate transactions, specialising in friendly and hostile public takeovers, schemes of arrangement, private M&A, ECM transactions, and general corporate and securities law matters.
Kevin Ko
Mackenzie is a specialist in complex, commercially significant disputes, litigation and regulatory enforcement actions, with extensive experience in large-scale, high-profile proceedings that include class actions and critical and sensitive regulatory matters.
Matt Mackenzie
The firm’s new special counsel are disputes and investigation experts Edward Martin and Patrick Tydde, real estate and projects specialist Joanne Bayes, and competition and regulation expert Liana Witt.
Edward Martin, Patrick Tydde, Joanne Bayes and Liana Witt
“These are very important achievements that are a testament to their skills as lawyers, to their commitment to G+T and their plans for contributing to our future success. It's extremely reassuring to see the quality of the talent that continues to emerge at our firm setting us up so powerfully for the future. These promotions are a recognition of the big contribution they continue to make to the firm and their individual ability to deliver outstanding results for our clients,” said managing partner Danny Gilbert.
He also highlighted the significance of the even split of the newly promoted lawyers between male and female lawyers.
“This is positive move towards achieving our gender diversity target of female representation in our partnership of 40% by 2023. I am also thrilled to see our focus on supporting women at senior levels of our organisation reflected strongly in this group of promotions. We have talented people coming through our ranks who are rewarded on performance and we provide a supportive and flexible working environment to enable our people to tailor their own career pathways. Organic growth is also evident with Rebecca, Melissa and Matt having risen through the G+T ranks after joining us as initially as summer clerks,” he said. “I have no doubt they will all play an integral role in the future success of the firm as we consolidate our market-leading position in key sectors and boost our capability in growing specialist practice areas.”
