In-person Event |
Gadens Lawyers Office
Level 13, Collins Arch,
447 Collins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC AustraliaThe ACC New to In-house Special Interest Group and Gadens welcome you to attend the Inaugural Networking Event and panel discussion to be held in Gadens' Melbourne Office. Our panel of experienced lawyers will discuss their career journeys and how those careers have changed over their years of practice. With the panel including Gadens Partners (Antoine Pace and Kelly Griffiths) and in house General Counsels (Sylvia Hands), the discussion will explore the experiences of moving between private practice and in-house. The panel will also discuss the opportunities which are now available to all lawyers within both professions and advice to junior lawyers and new to in-house legal counsel. With an opportunity to hear from experienced senior practitioners and build connections with new to in house lawyers and solicitors in private practice, this is an event not to be missed.
Speakers
Kelly Griffiths is a Partner at Australian law firm Gadens with a focus on biotechnology and pharmaceutical law, regulatory investigations, disputes, intellectual property and corporate crime. Kelly’s career path includes experience as an enforcement lawyer at ASIC as well as the Australia and New Zealand Chief Legal Counsel and Head of Government Affairs and Policy for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline. Kelly’s mantra of saying “yes to every opportunity” has resulted in a varied and interesting legal career, allowing her to focus on work that she finds meaningful and has fair reaching impact beyond the legal profession.
Antoine Pace is a Partner at Australian law firm Gadens in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group. With over 30 years’ experience as a lawyer, Antoine has worked as an in-house legal counsel at ANZ as well as the airline group Ansett Australia. Antoine is an expert in the field and has advised clients including financial institutions, technology product and service providers, telecommunication companies and green energy providers. He has been nominated and selected as a Best Lawyer in the areas of Education and Information Technology, Competition Law and Privacy and Data Security Law and has also been recognised as a recommended lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide listing of Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers. With a passion for technology and innovation, Antoine’s career has required him to adapt to the ever-changing technology landscape and legal implications.
Sylvia is an energetic in-house legal professional who has held executive leadership roles and managed legal and compliance teams in ASX-listed and global organisations. Sylvia’s experience spans beyond legal advice to include compliance, governance and regulatory affairs and she has worked within the health, insurance, retail and integrated facilities industries. Sylvia is currently a Non-Executive Director, as well as a member of the Finance Audit & Risk Committee, of the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia. She has been listed in the Legal 500 Guide to Australia’s Rising Stars (2019) and was a finalist in the Women in Law Awards (2019).
Notes
*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration.
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