With five new female partners, women will make up 41.7% of the firm's partnership by July
Allens has appointed Joshua Anderson, Victoria Eastwood, Isabelle Guyot, Corin Morcom, Llon Riley, Jamie Taylor, Anita Thompson, and Chloe Wilton as partners in the firm’s Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane offices.
The new appointments take effect on 1 July. The firm shared in its news release that 41.7% of its partnership will be composed of women by then.
In 2022, Allens set a 40:40:20 target to achieve at least 40% female partner representation by 2025.
“We are very pleased to announce the appointment of eight exceptionally talented lawyers to the Allens partnership and to congratulate them on this significant career milestone,” said Chelsey Drake, the firm’s chairperson, in a news release. “Each of them has demonstrated a commitment to building market-leading expertise and delivering exceptional client experience throughout their careers.”
Anderson works with the firm’s disputes and investigations practice in Melbourne. He focuses on complex commercial disputes like class actions, regulatory investigations, contractual claims, and professional negligence claims. He has represented clients before the High Court, Federal Court, and state Supreme Courts.
Eastwood practises with the firm’s disputes and investigations team in Sydney. She assists large corporations dealing with complex commercial disputes, corporate criminal matters, regulatory investigations, and enforcement actions. She helps with proceedings addressing alleged fraud and breaches of corporate and securities legislation, foreign bribery laws, and sanctions laws.
Guyot is a member of the firm’s technology, media, and telecommunications team in Sydney. She advises on data and privacy, procurement matters, cyber preparedness, data breach and cyber incident response, privacy compliance, and data commercialisation projects. Her work covers sectors such as financial services, energy, and consumer retail.
Based in Brisbane, Morcom is part of the firm’s disputes and investigations practice. She assists large corporate clients with complex commercial and insolvency disputes, including those in the mining, oil and gas, and construction and infrastructure sectors. She also helps clients with ESG, risk, compliance concerns, and regulatory actions.
Riley practises with the firm’s funds, super, and financial services practice in Melbourne. He focuses on retail financial services regulation, product design and simplification, and payment systems. He has assisted banks, financiers and other financial institutions for more than 12 years, including with large-scale and multi-branded projects.
Taylor is a member of the firm’s banking and finance team in Sydney. He deals with a broad array of structured finance and derivatives products, including securitised and other asset-backed products, structured/secured notes, repackaged notes, derivatives, and equity margin financing. His clients include sponsors, borrowers, lenders, and arrangers.
Thompson is in the firm’s competition, consumer, and regulatory team in Sydney. She works with clients to address investigations and court proceedings concerning mergers, cartels, misuse of market power, exclusive dealing, and anti-competitive agreements. Her clients come from industries such as financial services, media, telecommunications, and retail.
Wilton practises with the employment and safety team in Melbourne. She focuses on managing wage underpayment matters and employment-related litigation. Her experience covers advising clients on contentious industrial relations issues through secondments with some of the country’s largest employers.
