Maddocks

Commonwealth Government.

Simonetta is Partner-in-Charge of the Maddocks Canberra office and Sector Leader for the Commonwealth. She advises Commonwealth Government clients primarily as well as private sector clients. Her practice covers corporate, governance, commercial, FOI, statutory interpretation, administrative law and regulatory decision-making, procurement and probity.

Simonetta has been ranked in the Australian Financial Review’s Best Lawyers in the categories of Corporate/Governance and Government from 2011-2016, and in the category of Regulatory Practice from 2014-2016. She was also named Best Lawyers 2016 ACT Lawyer of the Year for Corporate/Governance. Simonetta has been ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Government in 2015 and 2016 and she has been ranked as a leading Corporate, Commercial & Procurement Lawyer in Canberra in the 2016  Doyle’s Guide.

Admitted to practice in the ACT; High Court of Australia (1991); NSW (1994). Associate/Tipstaff to Justice Brennan of the High Court of Australia in 1992. Australian Government Solicitor in 1993-1994. Held a scholarship with the EU Parliament in 1993. Joined the Sydney office of Blake Dawson (now Ashurst) in 1995 (Corporate group and the Banking & Finance group); moved to the Canberra office in 2000. Appointed as a Partner of Blake Dawson (now Ashurst) in July 2007. As a Partner with Blake Dawson (now Ashurst), managed the Corporate Legal Unit for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and effectively acted as the Department's General Counsel for more than three years. Joined Maddocks as a Partner on 1 March 2012.

French and Italian.

National Press Club; Australian Corporate Lawyers Association.

Bachelor of Economics, Australian National University, 1989; Bachelor of Laws (Hons), Australian National University, 1991; Masters in Law (Merit) (specialising in Government & Commercial), Australian National University, 2009.

Reading, table tennis, family, archaeology.