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Mills Oakley

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With a well-established focus on trade mark matters and portfolio management, Mills Oakley advises clients across a range of industries. The team is headed from Melbourne by Lisa Egan, who has extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property. Scott Coulthart works closely with technology companies and healthcare providers, while Myrna Taouil advises on IP commercialisation, brand protection and portfolio management. Eden Tsiaples adds further strength to the practice.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Mills Oakley have worked with us for years. They know our values, culture and arrangements inside out and provide specific, timely, highly constructive assistance in a wide variety of diverse settings for our complex transnational IP work.’

  • ‘Lisa Egan is exceptional - quick, vastly knowledgeable, pragmatic and flexible in her approach, and a trusted legal advisor to us.’

  • 'We admire the clear and carefully thought out advice and support which ensures the matters we are dealing with are handled effectively, in a timely manner, and in a way which is both ethical as well as legal.'
  • 'We work with both Lisa Egan and Myrna Taouil. They are both responsive, highly capable, and ensure that, as a client, we are well supported. Their work is accurate, meets all deadlines, and we can trust that whatever we ask to be done is done better than we would expect, and more than meets our needs.'
  • 'Very good legal work provided in a timely manner.'
  • 'Scott Coulthart has always been great to deal with and has always been very timely in his responses.'
  • 'Lisa Egan is a very experienced and efficient lawyer with a good focus on practical outcomes.'

Key clients

  • Sigma Company Limited
  • Haileybury
  • KOOKAI
  • Salvation Army
  • BMD Holdings
  • Fusion Specialty International Pty Ltd
  • SlumberTrek Australia
  • THEMEMO PTY LTD
  • Mad Mex International Pty Ltd
  • Little Party Dress Pty Ltd
  • Netball Australia Limited
  • BCAL Diagnostics Limited

Work highlights

Acting for fashion retailer KOOKAI in the strategic management of a global trade mark portfolio, including the recording of a change of ownership in over 100 jurisdictions.

Practice head

Lisa Egan

Other key lawyers

Scott Coulthart; Myrna Taouil; Eden Tsiaples