Amanda Comelli is a Law Society of NSW Accredited Specialist in Business Law and currently sits on the Law Society's Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee for Business Law.
With more than 10 years' experience as a business lawyer, Amanda provides commercial and corporate law, tax law and estate planning advice to businesses and business owners.
Amanda likes to keep her practice broad, to provide her clients with well-rounded and practical legal advice. Her experience includes assisting clients in the areas of:
• Business sales, mergers and acquisitions • Business succession planning including shareholder and other stakeholder agreements and buy / sell agreements • Business structuring • Employee share schemes • Private international business law • General contract drafting and reviews • Intellectual property • Trusts and general tax advice • Personal Property Securities Act • International business and trade law • Wills, estates and estate planning, including testamentary trusts • Corporate governance • Commercial and retain leasing.
Amanda has acted for a range of clients including both private and public companies, accountants, financial planners, retailers, business owners, manufacturers, individuals (including high net worth individuals) and not-for-profit organisations.
She is also a founder of the Women in Tax Discussion Group hosted monthly by Brown Wright Stein as a forum for female tax professionals to meet and discuss recent key changes in tax law in a relaxed and supportive environment.
Outside of work, Amanda enjoys travel, fitness, and spending time with her family. She has also represented Australia in a number of international karate tournaments.

Brett is a Partner in the Employment Advisory team of Gadens, a leading independent law firm.
Brett has over 23 years’ experience, and is a Law Society of New South Wales Accredited Specialist in employment and industrial relations law. Brett is a member of both the Law Society's Employment Law committee and the relevant accreditation committee.
Brett provides assistance to clients in relation to employment, workplace relations, discrimination and workplace health and safety issues, from both an advisory and contentious perspective. This includes assisting clients on all facets of the employment life cycle from pre-employment, performance and conduct issues, terminating the employment relationship, through to post- employment issues. Brett has considerable experience and expertise in relation to cross-border employment arrangements and has assisted many clients to expand both into and out of Australia. He is also an expert on all legal aspects of executive remuneration and employee equity and cash incentive arrangements.
Brett is regularly asked to deliver seminars and webinars to industry bodies about developments in workplace laws, and frequently holds briefings for clients on topical workplace relations, including of late issues arising from COVID-19 and JobKeeper. He regularly contributes to publications updating clients on workplace law developments and as a thought leader on emerging issues.

The Principal of Richard Harvey & Associates, a property and general practice law firm located on Sydney’s lower north shore, Richard Harvey has practiced continuously as a legal practitioner in NSW for nearly four decades.
A Councillor of The Law Society of New South Wales since 2011, Richard is a Law Society Accredited Specialist in Property Law, Chair of the Property Law Committee and The Law Society of New South Wales Specialist Accreditation Board and a committee member of The Law Society of New South Wales and REI Joint Copyright Committee.
Richard has previously served on the Law Society’s Fidelity Fund Committee, Finance Committee, Conduct Committee and Diversity Committee. He has been Secretary of The North Metropolitan Regional Law Society since 2010.Richard graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2016 and is also a non-Executive Director of Lawcover. He also regularly writes and speaks on Property Law.

Kerrie joined Lawcover in February 2013 as Chief Operations Officer with primary responsibility for leading Professional Services – Claims, Insurance Services, Underwriting and Practice Support Services. Kerrie was admitted as a solicitor in NSW in 1996 and her career has spanned several Sydney law firms. She specialised in personal injury, professional indemnity and insurance litigation. In 2001, Kerrie moved from legal practice to the insurance industry, focusing on public liability, personal injury/catastrophic claims, professional indemnity and financial lines. Her insurance career has included time with AMP/GIO, QBE and MDA National. Kerrie’s broad expertise includes leading diverse teams delivering professional indemnity, advisory and risk management education services with a key focus on successful outcomes, business rigour and client value. Kerrie was appointed Chief Executive Officer effective 7 September 2020.

After spending 12 years in large Sydney practices specialising mostly in commercial property transactions, Michelle moved to Lennox Head on the far north coast, expanded her areas of expertise and is now one of 3 partners in a busy commercial firm which services clients in both the Northern Rivers and elsewhere in the state. As an accredited specialist in both Property Law and Business Law Michelle has a wealth of experience in a wide variety of business, property and development matters.

Stephen is a specialist insolvency and financial restructuring practitioner.
He has extensive experience in all forms of both corporate and personal insolvency, including bankruptcy, liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships, as well as informal and formal financial restructuring. He regularly advises and represents insolvency practitioners and also personal and corporate creditors and debtors in relation to insolvency and restructuring matters.
Stephen regularly appears in Federal, Family and State Supreme Courts on behalf of insolvency practitioners in respect of legal issues involved with insolvency administrations, including trust and property disputes and the recovery of voidable transactions under the Bankruptcy and Corporations Acts.
He also advises on asset protection and acts for individuals and corporations in dealings with insolvency practitioners, negotiating deeds of company arrangement, personal insolvency agreements and compositions, and claims for the recovery and sale of real property as well as disputes over voidable transactions., insolvent trading, and director’s duties as well as the interaction of Family Law with insolvency.
Stephen is a regular writer and speaker on insolvency related topics.
He is:o a member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA)o a member of the Law Council of Australia, Business Law Section, Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee; a member of the Australian Institute of Credit Management; ando a Law Society Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation, specialising in Insolvency.
He has published numerous articles and contributing author to CCH Australian Master Family Guide on “Bankruptcy and Third Parties” and CCH Family Law and Practice Looseleaf service on “Debt and Bankruptcy”. He is on the Editorial Board for the LexisNexisInsolvency Law Bulletin.