Meet our People

Kate is a Partner in the Sydney Disputes and Investigations Team with extensive contentious, regulatory and investigative experience, in both prosecutorial and defensive roles. Kate specialises in advising and representing a diversity of private and public sector clients in relation to corporate law and governance; general corporate and commercial matters; compliance, investigation and enforcement of corporate (including financial, capital and credit markets), prudential, competition, taxation and takeovers regulation; licensing; anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing; and probity reviews for regulators.

Kate has worked as general counsel for ASX listed companies. Kate also has considerable government policy experience including with the Federal Treasury and the NSW EPA. Among other things, Kate was the Chair and Convenor of the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce and the Government expert panel on corporate whistleblowing, the chief policy adviser on the design and development the corporate collective investment vehicle and was Australia’s representative in multilateral negotiations with Japan, Thailand, South Korea and New Zealand to establish the Asia Region Funds Passport. Kate was also General Counsel and company secretary to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) (responsible for the development of professional standards in the financial services sector) for two years.

Kate is an experienced company director of ASX listed and not for profit entities, including audit & risk committee and remuneration & nominations committee roles.

Since 2008, Kate has been recognised by the Best Lawyers in AustraliaTM in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Financial Institutions, Litigation, Taxation and Regulatory Practice.

Kate is recognised by IFLR in the areas of Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A and restructuring and insolvency.

Kate is a legal expert for LexisNexis advising on training modules for financial markets, stockbroking and corporate whistleblowing

Current and previous corporate directorships:

• Non-executive Director of ASX listed company Hipages Group Holdings Limited (HPG), Chairman of HPG Remunerations & Nominations Committee, and Member of HPG Audit & Risk Committee (since 1 December 2022).
• Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Board of Biennale of Sydney Limited (since July 2014).