Hall & Wilcox > Newcastle, Australia > Firm Profile

‘The team’s expertise was evident from our very first meeting, and the advice they gave us ensured the best possible outcome in a very difficult situation.’

‘The team’s advice always had the best interests of those impacted by the cyber attack at its core, while ensuring the risks to our business were mitigated as much as possible.’

‘There are few firms at the forefront of the explosion of issues surrounding cyber protection, cyber insurance and changes to the privacy landscape. Hall & Wilcox have been able to provide sound and timely advice consistently, whilst understanding our business needs and proactively sending advice/bulletins to help us keep ahead.’

‘Eden Winokur and his team have provided excellent written and verbal advice making a very complicated area of the law easy to navigate with practical commercial steps. Eden’s cyber and insurance expertise combined with specialist privacy associates have been invaluable to our organisation.’

‘Mark Petrucco is a well-regarded and highly experienced insolvency and financial services litigator.’

‘Overall the team is practical and effective.’

‘Graydon Dowd is thorough, reliable and determined.’

‘Stephen Klotz takes a highly practical, thoughtful and strategic approach. He gets across the detail quickly and is an effective advocate in ADR proceedings. He is very accessible and responsive.’

‘The practice are experts in the law but also have a very commercial approach and take the time to really understand businesses so that the advice they give is targeted and useable. They are not afraid to give clear directions.’

‘Jacob Uljans is a stand out lawyer. Clever, personable, available, strategic. He is a top pick for any litigation.’

‘Graydon Dowd in Melbourne is a “go to” at the firm, he has proven to be a safe set of hands especially in dispute resolution/management. If Graydon is unable to assist, he is usually able to refer the matter to the appropriate subject-matter expert within the firm. ’

‘Kathryn Howard is an exceptional solicitor. She immerses herself fully in her matters. She provides clear, sound and timely advice to her clients.’

‘Hall & Wilcox provide a great service, with clear advice and attention to detail. The firm is highly experienced in planning and environment, and capable of managing transactional work, through to complex proceedings and large scale assessment and approval processes.’

‘Meg Lee provides an excellent service. She cares about our business, and brings together the technical skills of her firm with sound strategic judgment that has a clear focus on outcomes.’

‘Dedicated responsive team. Great team to interact with. They are happy to advise strongly against courses of action, even when there is political pressure to take a certain position.’

‘Stan Kondilios provides clear, firm, and sound advice, even when it may not be what we as clients want to hear, which gives me confidence they are acting in our best interests. Always super responsive and when dealing with your matter.’

‘Hall and Wilcox stand out in the field of emerging technology, specifically blockchain. The firm is regularly supporting the industry and is at the forefront from a knowledge perspective.’

‘John Bassilios is a standout partner. His diligence and attention to detail are excellent.’

‘A very solid team with good technical and commercial understanding.’

‘John Bassilios has a very good understanding of the crypto space.’

‘For a practice to be unique requires experienced, dynamic individuals that understand the implications of law but most importantly have the strength and ability to advise on commercial strategy. I believe that the Individuals I have worked with at Hall & WIilcox met this requirement.’

‘The team has an excellent group of lawyers including partners with specialist experience in various areas including commercial contracts and M&A.’

‘I highly recommend Philip Hopley. He is excellent as a specialist lawyer and has an incredible way of making complex concepts palatable to the business to understand. He can articulate clearly the commercial impacts on the business and is very considerate and courteous to everyone.’

‘A national firm with offerings across a wide range of specialties within the insurance industry. Engaged Partners willing to work with clients to achieve outcomes.’

‘Exceptional legal knowledge and skills particularly around insurance law coupled with very open, honest, and easy going communication. We have partnered with the firm on many successful individual and group actions and innovative processes.’

‘H&W handle many aspects of our business from a legal perspective and do so with aplomb.’

‘Martin Ross is our main point of call, as he understands our business intimately after many years.’

‘The team are absolute experts in their area. They have exceptional turnaround times and allow the client to help guide the legal process.’

‘Martin Ross is knowledgeable across so many sports rights deals that there is nothing that he hasn’t experienced before and can’t apply to the matter at hand!’

‘The team offers commercial, agile and sound advice and support.’

‘A bespoke package with expertise offered at different levels within the firm.’

‘Mark Lebbon – if you want something done to perfection with fast turnaround, Mark is your guy. For high-risk, high-value transactions, my mind is at ease when I know Mark is involved. He is reliable, personable and great at his craft.’

‘H&W was able to advise us on all of our requirements across multiple different areas and facilitate a smooth transition.’

‘Hall & Wilcox’s Insolvency & Restructuring Team is one of Brisbane’s leading restructuring practices with a team that has a demonstrated history of delivering solutions for complex insolvency problems.’

‘Hall & Wilcox’s Brisbane team is led by Scott Butler and Ann Watson. Scott’s experience and technical ability ensure he is focused on delivering workable real-world solutions that can be implemented. Scott ensures that all options are explored to deliver a balanced commercial outcome that is acceptable to all parties. Ann’s experience allows her to bring legal expertise across the spectrum of distressed matters reflecting an ability to identify pragmatic solutions for lenders, creditors and company stakeholders.’

‘Very commercial advice, however they are technically and strategically excellent as well.’

‘Hector West – very commercial and also strategic in how he approaches issues.’

‘Ebenezer Assibey-Bonsu – great communicator with great attention to detail ’

‘Outstanding interpersonal skills. Exceptional and well versed knowledge base. Commitment to pro bono services. Always happy to go above and beyond. Fresh, innovative and progressive law firm. ’

‘Jim Koutsokostas is exceptional and needs recognition. Prompt to reply to emails. Extremely helpful. Willing to share knowledge and help develop skills. Outstanding and ongoing commitment to pro bono services. Rachel Law and Todd Bromwhich are very friendly, supportive, approachable and knowledgeable. ’

‘Jacqui McGrath is an outstanding advisor. She is astute; keeps herself informed of legal and economic conditions potentially affecting her clients; has experience of working with the revenue and private clients; and is strategic. To those qualities Jacqui adds remarkable dedication to getting across the detail of her cases.’

‘The thing that marks Hall & Wilcox out is that you can rely on them to give not just first-class legal advice, but to give it in a supremely practical commercial way.’

‘Ed Paton – an excellent operator who will find a way to get the job done.’

‘Chris Brown – brilliant at explaining Australian market practice to UK clients.’

‘Oliver Jankowsky – heads H&W’s unique offering to German investors into the Australian market.’

‘Without doubt, the first choice for advising mid-cap and mid-market companies doing business in Australia.’

‘Quality client service. They are extremely reliable, meet deadlines and work long and hard to support our business.’

‘They are innovative, strategic and solution focused. They cut to the bone on the issues at hand and what action we can take to resolve the matter. They do not overpromise and under deliver. They deliver on what they promise.’

‘Very good collaboration on strategic planning.’

‘Rosemary Roach – smart, personable and an expert in her field.’

‘Very experienced team, with stable/longstanding team members. Very pragmatic approach and advice. Great listeners and they are solution oriented.’

‘The team’s availability at very short notice is always appreciated. Time is taken to truly understand issues and solutions offered are commercial and aimed at effectively mitigating risk.’

‘Highly responsive and skilled. Excellent communications and sound advice, capable of immediate implementation.’

‘Chris Sacré in Sydney is conscientious, commercial and has wide experience of maritime law issues in London and Hong Kong in addition to Australia. Kendall Messer in Perth is highly engaged, well-connected and fast to grasp detail.’

‘Experienced, commercial, pro-active team with sound knowledge of contract, charter party and personal injury issues.’

‘The team I have been working with are technically sound. They know the business of their client well and are able to add value. Prompt response and diversified service team makes the team unique to be able to service the client from different industries or with different cultures.’

‘Mark Inston is a top legal partner, client focused and very technically sound. He is able to lead a team to meet client deadlines without compromising the quality of work. He is able to address the risks for clients in a commercial manner. ’

‘Creative problem solvers, work with their clients to understand their business and underlying needs and then add value by addressing these needs.’

‘Collaborative, experts in their field, contemporary expertise and efficient.’

‘Highly efficient team providing high-quality advice. Also strong value for money.’

‘A down-to-earth team that is easy to do business with. They are easy to talk to and genuinely seem to appreciate that everyone has their area of expertise and make everyone comfortable to make suggestions or ask questions.’

‘They understand the industry, how contracts are actually used and interpreted in practice and make contracts a useful tool that everyone wants to use, not stuff away in a drawer. John O’Kane in particular just gets construction. And he understands how our business works and where our strengths are.’

‘I found the team to be highly competent. I believe they are more customer centric than the majority of legal teams that I have dealt with in the market. Technology is up to date.’