Mallesons, Australia’s top-tier independent law firm, announces the promotion of 9 new partners effective 1 July 2026.
The new partners specialise in Leveraged Finance, Financial Regulation, Restructure & Insolvency, IP Disputes/Patents, Corporate Governance/ESG, Tax, and Energy across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.Their appointments reflect growing client demand across financial services, market regulation, energy, digital infrastructure, private capital, restructuring and insolvency and corporate governance and will complement our existing capability in these areas.
This cohort of new partners all combine their deep legal excellence with sharp commercial insight, judgement and foresight to support clients on some of the most complex and consequential matters. They will strengthen the Mallesons partnership and contribute to the firm’s #1 market standing.
For 8 consecutive years, the firm has had more Band 1 practices and Band 1 individuals in Chambers and Legal 500 than any other firm in the Australian market. The new partners will continue to build on this platform and set the standard for legal excellence and client service in this market and beyond.
The new partners include:
- Zoe Anderson – Banking & Finance, Sydney. Zoe acts for lenders and borrowers on corporate, leveraged and acquisition finance, debt facilities, ongoing maintenance of portfolio company debt, fund finance and a wide range of debt products.
- Maggie Chan – Dispute Resolution, Sydney. Maggie specialises in intellectual property, with a particular focus on trade mark portfolios and disputes, copyright litigation and claims of misleading or deceptive conduct, passing off and misuse of confidential information, including in the context of advertising and marketing.
- Bridie Egan – Dispute Resolution, Melbourne. Bridie’s core practice is in intellectual property, specialising in all aspects of IP law including patents, trade marks, designs, copyright, trade secrets, IP-related enforcement rights under the Australian Consumer Law and IP strategy. She acts for clients across a broad range of industries including the pharmaceutical, medical device, manufacturing, agricultural, mining, consumer product and ICT sectors.
- Zoe Kaesehagen – Banking & Finance, Sydney. Zoe’s focus is advisory and transactional restructuring and insolvency, specialising in complex restructures, corporate workouts and insolvency. She advises companies, insolvency practitioners and both secured and unsecured creditors in distressed situations across energy, construction, mining and infrastructure.
- Joanne Langford - Tax, Sydney. Joanne specialises in income tax and GST. Her work focuses on the financial services sector advising non-bank lenders, banks and investment banks on infrastructure and asset financing, the tax treatment of managed funds, corporate restructures, securitisation, mergers and acquisitions and debt capital markets transactions.
- Amelia Mellor – Real Estate, Energy, Resources and Infrastructure, Perth. Amelia is an energy and projects lawyer working with energy, mining, resources and infrastructure. She advises on major energy and infrastructure project developments (both grid-connected and dedicated assets across conventional, renewable and storage facilities) and access to regulated assets, with a focus on contractual arrangements and regulatory advice.
- Emma Newnham – Mergers & Acquisitions, Melbourne. Emma specialises in corporate governance, climate and ESG-related equity capital markets and private and public M&A, and corporate regulatory reform projects. Her governance work includes disclosure and stakeholder engagement, head office advisory work, regulatory investigations, governance reviews and internal investigations, board advisory, capital management and equity incentive plans.
- Stephen Sharpe – Banking & Finance, Sydney. Stephen acts for global and Australian sponsors on leveraged finance transactions and debt facilities, as well as financiers to sponsors, portfolio companies and large listed and unlisted companies.
- Kathryn Tomasic – Banking & Finance, Melbourne. Kathryn specialises in banking and finance, with a focus on financial sector regulatory issues, major projects, debt capital markets and derivatives. She has acted for banks, insurers and NOHCs on high-profile regulatory capital transactions.
Commenting on the promotions, Chief Executive Partner Renae Lattey said:
“We are proud to announce our first new partner cohort since we entered our new era as Mallesons. This next generation will drive our firm’s vision to be the firm trusted most with our client’s future in a world that never stands still. They have the full support of the partnership and I have no doubt they will make an outsized impact that I know we will all be proud of.”
