Adrian is a leading employment lawyer who acts for major organisations on the full range of employment and workplace relations matters, with particular depth in workplace strategy, enterprise bargaining, wage compliance,  regulator engagement and both employment and industrial disputes.

Biography

Adrian acts for major Australian and international employers across retail, financial services, higher education, transport and both Federal and State Government. His clients include large listed corporates, major public sector employers and universities.

Adrian advises on workplace strategy, enterprise bargaining, wage compliance, transfer of business, misconduct litigation and industrial disputes.
He has particular expertise in regulator engagement, including negotiating enforceable undertakings and responding to statutory notices from the Fair Work Ombudsman. He acts in contested proceedings before the Fair Work Commission and superior courts, including for the State of Victoria.

Adrian has 20 years of experience acting for employers. He has led employment entitlements review programs for major universities involving workforces of thousands of employees, managed long-running multi-site industrial disputes, and advised on enterprise bargaining across complex multi-brand, multi-jurisdiction operations.

His litigation record includes significant proceedings for both private and public sector employers in the Fair Work Commission and Federal and State courts.

Adrian brings an integrated legal and strategic perspective developed across global and national law firms, in-house client secondments (including in Victorian Government) and a multi-disciplinary professional services environment, where he lead the national Workplace and Employment Law practice at KPMG Law Australia. This background informs both the legal rigour and the commercial and regulatory judgment he applies to each matter. He is consistently recognised in Best Lawyers Australia for Labour and Employment Law and Government Practice.

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Adrian's experience

National Freight Carrier

Advised national freight carrier and related entities on employment and industrial relations matters during a significant internal restructure. Scope included employee transfers between entities, enterprise agreement variations to expand coverage, bargaining negotiations with the Transport Workers’ Union, and resolution of union disputes concerning delegate rights and allowances. Strategic advice balanced immediate restructure implementation with the longer-term implications for multi-state bargaining processes.

Prominent Australian University

Lead partner on a prominent Australian University’s Employment Entitlements Review Program, covering a workforce of nearly 4,000 employees. Advising on all legal and strategic dimensions of the review, briefing executive stakeholders, managing engagement with the Fair Work Ombudsman and the state's Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety, and instructing external data and calculation experts. The matter addresses underpayment remediation in an environment of heightened regulatory attention across the higher education sector.

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