Joanne helps charities, not-for-profit associations, and education organisations to operate and thrive in an increasingly complex environment.
Joanne offers a one-stop shop for her clients to navigate their commercial, legal, regulatory, property, and compliance requirements.
Joanne has extensive experience acting for and advising:
Catholic Church entities including the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Dioceses throughout NSW and Australia (including each of their systems of schools, parishes, social welfare agencies and development funds).
Other Catholic religious orders and congregations.
Anglican entities and entities of other religious denominations.
Education organisations across the entire education life-cycle – from early learning all the way through to tertiary education and training.
Aged care facilities and hospitals.
An array of charities and not-for-profits, including overseas aid funds, incorporated and unincorporated associations.
An array of private and commercial for-profit organisations, servicing their wide range of legal needs.
Joanne ensures that she has a genuine understanding of each and every client’s organisation, mission, values, and ethos. This understanding is essential for Joanne to not only deliver value to her clients, but also to support the advancement of each client’s purposes in everything that she does.
Joanne’s experience includes working in-house as General Counsel of Sydney Catholic Schools (which is comprised of 147 schools, 75,000 students and 11,000 staff). Joanne’s mix of private practice, including private practice Partnership, and in-house experience ensures that she has a unique understanding of her clients’ challenges and pain points, and is well-placed to provide appropriate, accurate and efficient advice.
Having supported clients in the charities, NFP as well as private sectors for over 15 years, Joanne is experienced in not only the technical aspects of creating and running a charity or NFP, but her experience also includes advising and assisting on ancillary matters for charities, NFPs and for-profit clients including the following areas of expertise:
Charities and NFPs: From creation to cessation and everything in between, including establishing and incorporating charities and NFPs and systems of schools and advising in respect of corporate governance, regulatory and other requirements in an ever-changing regulatory environment.
Property and Commercial: Acting in a vast array of property and commercial transactions including purchase and sale of commercial and residential property (freehold and leasehold), property subdivision, property development, construction, environment and planning, leasing and due diligence for all such transactions; acting in a range of commercial legal work including the buying and selling of businesses.
Intellectual Property
Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity
Education Law: Including related family law and child protection issues.
Although Joanne focuses on the above areas of law, she also has experience in:
Employment.
Discrimination and Disability.
Work Health and Safety.
Insurance and Personal Injury.
General Litigation and Dispute Resolution.
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