New partner and solicitor bring experience to national firm's property and construction sectors
Colin Biggers & Paisley, national firm, has announced the appointments of Kerry Ioulianou as a partner in its construction and engineering team and Harrison Morley as a solicitor.
The firm highlighted that these new additions, coming from Lander & Rogers, would bring significant experience to its property and construction sectors.
Ioulianou’s experience includes advising developers, constructors, major infrastructure contractors, specialist subcontractors, and construction professionals on construction and property development projects within the energy, mining and resources, road and rail, and aged and community care industries and across all levels of the construction industry, said the firm’s news release.
He is also experienced in all forms of dispute resolution, including complex multi-party disputes, negotiated settlements, adjudication, mediation, expert determinations, arbitration, and litigation, according to his bio on the firm’s website.
Ioulianou has more than 17 years of experience as a legal practitioner across multiple jurisdictions, his bio also provided. He received admission to the High Court of South Africa as a barrister and as a member of the Johannesburg bar in March 2006, to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 2017, and to the High Court of Australia in June 2020.
“Joining Colin Biggers & Paisley was an exciting opportunity,” said Ioulianou in the news release. “With its well-established construction practice across Australia and a rapidly expanding property and planning presence in Melbourne, I am eager to contribute to the team's growth and success.”
“Our team is thrilled to have Kerry join us,” said James Neal, Sydney-based partner, in the news release. “His areas of expertise align with our built environment focus in Melbourne and round out our end-to-end service approach across our Construction, Property and Development and Planning Infrastructure & Environment groups.”
The firm named Neal its national construction and engineering practice leader at the start of the financial year. He has two decades of construction legal experience, with a focus on dispute resolution and litigation.
“We have committed to our clients to have the very best partners in our specialist service offerings of construction and property and development - which are strategic focus areas of our practice - and our point of difference in the legal services market,” said Rhett Oliver and David Passarella, Melbourne-based partners, in the news release. “We are confident Kerry's appointment will see us delivering on this commitment in spades.”
Oliver is national practice leader of the firm’s property and development group. Passarella, coming from Mills Oakley, joined Colin Biggers & Paisley to lead its Melbourne planning, infrastructure, and environment group in late 2022.
