About Philip

Philip is a senior commercial lawyer with extensive experience advising professional services firms in corporations law, trust law, and partnership law. In particular, Philip advises Accounting/Auditing firms on regulatory matters and prosecutions, and partnership/trust structuring/professional liability issues.

Philip has advised family-owned businesses and emerging enterprises on business succession, corporate/trust, asset protection, personal asset protection and succession planning for high net worth individuals. Philip also has extensive experience in insolvency law and in advising companies and organisations in distressed circumstances.

Experience

• Accounting/Professional Services

  Extensive experience and expertise in accounting and auditing standards, regulatory compliance and prosecutions, structuring and partnership disputes.

• Mergers & acquisitions

  Negotiating and contracting of mergers, acquisitions and sales of businesses.

• Corporate & commercial

  Advice and assistance in resolving shareholder, unitholder and partnership disputes. Delivering in a rapid manner detailed strategic, commercial and legal advice to clients.

• Family-Owned Businesses/High Net Worth Individuals

  Acting as the trustee adviser to family-owned businesses and high net worth individuals in asset management/asset protection, family constitutions and succession planning.

• Restructuring & insolvency

  Extensive experience in assisting distressed companies in dealing with legal and commercial challenges.