Sarah Davies

Partner

Telephone
07 3239 2960
Email
sarah.davies@mcmahonclarke.com

 

Experience:  Sarah is a partner with McMahon Clarke Legal and joined the firm in 2001. She leads our litigation and risk management team. Sarah is our most experienced practitioner, having been admitted as a solicitor in 1989.

Sarah specialises in advising the firm’s clients on protecting their businesses from unwanted or unjustified attack (either from competitors or the regulators), analysing risk involved in various commercial situations to enable proper risk management to take place, and providing strategic advice on commercial transactions to ensure clients are aware of any potential obstacles to achieving their goals.

Sarah's areas of expertise include the following:

• Advising directors about their duties and responsibilities, particularly in the face of an attack on the company's business, or when restructuring or merger issues arise.
   
• Advising trustee clients about trust governance issues, and applying to the courts for orders in relation to trusts and managed investment schemes.
   
• Conducting shareholder oppression actions and derivative actions.
   
• Advising clients about corporate insolvency issues.
   
• Representing clients at contested hearings before regulators and in the court.
   
• Representing companies and their directors in class actions brought by disgruntled investors.
   
• Acting for parties in partnership, shareholder and joint venture disputes.
   
• Property-related litigation involving leases, development agreements and mortgages.
   
• Land resumption cases.
   
• Trade practices disputes.
   
• Negligence actions, including negligence claims against directors, advisors and professionals.

Expertise:  Click here for examples of the litigation and risk management team's recent work.

Professional Qualifications:  Bachelor of Laws. Sarah is completing a Masters of Business Administration. She is admitted as a solicitor in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Sarah is a member of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association, Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management.