Lachlan Gepp
Partner
Crystal Xu
Lawyer
Jake Talbot
Lawyer
Thomas Wilson
Senior Associate
Samantha Shields
Partner
Georgia Mackenzie
Lawyer
Kasumi Scott
Lawyer
Po Tsai
Lawyer

Liesl Ellies

Special Counsel

Over 19 years of legal practice, Liesl has become a specialist corporate and commercial lawyer with a particular interest in transactional law, both cross border and domestic.  She has extensive experience in unregulated mergers and acquisitions, business and asset sale and purchase transactions, private equity buy-ins, corporate restructures and primary and secondary equity capital raisings.  Liesl enjoys the challenge and pace of front-end commercial transactions and is motivated by the opportunity to contribute to successful business transformation.

In addition to and complementary to her transactional experience, Liesl has extensive experience advising on Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule compliance, directors’ duties, continuous disclosure, company meetings, corporate governance, due diligence investigations and commercial drafting and negotiation.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Liesl was General Counsel and Joint Company Secretary for ASX-listed Resonance Health Ltd and worked in private practice for firms including HWL Ebsworth Lawyers, Lavan and Freehills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Advisory; IPOs; Equity Capital Markets; Joint Ventures; Commercial Drafting; Corporate Governance; Securities.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Laws – Murdoch University
  • Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese) – Murdoch University
  • Admitted to practice in Western Australia (2005)
  • Admitted to the High Court
Perth

AREAS OF EXPERTISE