Anna Elizabeth
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+61 2 8066 6143OVERVIEW
Anna was called to the New South Wales Bar in 2021. She is also listed with the ACT Bar Association.
Anna accepts briefs in all types of commercial disputes where she has considerable experience in large and complex commercial matters, gained both at the bar and as a solicitor. She is adept at dealing with large volumes of documents, complex evidentiary matters and large teams. Anna is able to work seamlessly and collaboratively with solicitors including where teams are based interstate.
She is often relied upon in the context of contractual disputes including supply chain, infrastructure and pricing matters where she has extensive experience. She also has experience in matters involving white-collar crime, ASIC investigations, shareholder disputes, environmental law, and class actions.
Anna has a particular interest in energy and resources and accepts briefs in all matters relating to those industries. Anna is familiar with complex energy pricing principles, transfer pricing and benchmarking, oil and gas pricing, take-or-pay contracts, the short term traded gas market and rules and offtake agreements, among other things. In addition, she has experience working on ports, pipelines, terminals, including within integrated supply chains. She also has a keen interest in matters relating to the energy transition, renewable energy and associated issues.
As well as other memberships, Anna is a member of the Energy & Resources Law Association and contributes to policy submissions on behalf of the association. She is also a reporter for the Australian Resources Law Reports and stays up to date with matters affecting the energy and resources industries.
Prior to being called to the Bar, Anna was a litigator in the commercial disputes team at Arnold Bloch Leibler and served as an Associate to Foster J in the Federal Court of Australia. She worked in various teams as a solicitor including as an Associate at MinterEllison, where she represented successful Applicants in a significant class action alleging Misfeasance in Public Office.
Anna’s law degrees, noted on this page, were marked by prizes for academic achievement.
Anna is a National Pro Bono Target signatory.
Details of recent experience and selected cases are set out in Anna’s CV.
Areas of Practice
- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Incl Mediation & Arbitration)
- Appellate
- Banking, Securities and Insolvency
- Class Actions & Representative Proceedings
- Commercial Litigation
- Commissions and Inquiries
- Competition
- Constitutional Law
- Corporate
- Equity
- Insurance
- Regulatory
- Trade Practices
- Trusts
- Wills & Estates; Family Provision Act; Probate
ADMISSIONS & APPOINTMENTS
Barrister |
2021 |
Solicitor |
2015 |
QUALIFICATIONS
JD Monash University |
2015 |
MCRLaw Master of Commercial and Resource Law |
2012 |
BComm University of Melbourne |
2007 |