Admitted to the Bar 2017
Experience
Karen is a commercial barrister with specialist experience in insolvency and corporations law. She is most often briefed in large commercial litigation and arbitrations involving cross-border issues and complex financial transactions.
She was included in the Legal 500 2024 Australian Bar rankings as a leading junior in commercial disputes (Tier 2) where she was described as “a great strategic thinker, highly responsive and hard-working. She is widely admired for her insolvency work but her practice extends to all areas of commercial law. She is often the first choice as a commercial junior in large cases”. She was also included in the Legal 500 2023 Australian Bar rankings.
In 2023 she was included in the Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended Insolvency & Restructuring Junior Counsel. In 2022 she was recognised as one of the world’s leading young insolvency and restructuring specialists by the Global Restructuring Review in its 40-under-40 list. In 2021 she was named ADR Practitioner of the Year at the Australian ADR Awards. In 2018 she was awarded the Christopher Gee QC Memorial Prize for achieving the highest result on the NSW Bar Practice Course.
Karen is admitted to practise in all Australian jurisdictions and in England and Wales and she is registered as a foreign lawyer and entitled to appear in the Singapore International Commercial Court.
Principal Areas of Practice
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Commercial Law
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- Admiralty and Maritime
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Arbitration
- Aviation and Transportation Law
- Banking and Financial Services
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Class Actions
- Conflict of Laws
- Contracts
- Corporations and Securities
- Cross-border Insolvency
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- International Law
- Partnership disputes
- Real property
- Shareholder class actions
- Superannuation
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Criminal
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- Appellate
- Fraud
- Proceeds of crime
- White collar and corporate crime
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Taxation and Revenue
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Capital gains tax
- Goods and services tax
- Income tax
- International tax
- Land tax
- Payroll tax
- Stamp duty and other state taxes
Sectors
Banks & Financial Services, Funds, Transport and Infrastructure, Primary Resources, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Real Estate,