Current practice

Priscilla has considerable experience in head office advisory work and in many fields of transaction-based commercial legal work. She has acted for a wide range of listed and unlisted public companies, joint ventures, private companies, governments and other business enterprises. 

Her principal areas of practice involve:

• head office, corporate governance and advisory work
• corporate restructurings
• M&A transactions, including negotiated acquisitions and disposals by domestic and foreign companies
• joint ventures
• commercial contracts, competitive tenders and other commercial arrangements.

In addition to her time at Freehills, Priscilla has spent more than three years working in London with Allen & Overy and six months on secondment at Telstra Corporation Limited.

Industry experience

Some of the matters Priscilla has managed or been closely involved with include:

• completing a six month secondment at Telstra Corporation Limited, providing legal advice to the Office of the Company Secretary and the Finance & Administration group
• acting for Wesfarmers Limited on the sale of Landmark to AWB Limited
• advising AXA on majority shareholder issues in relation to its stake in AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited
• managing the European and Asian elements of SunGard Data Systems Inc.’s acquisition of Comdisco Inc.’s availability solutions business
• in 2001–02, undertaking a three month secondment in Slovakia, where she provided legal advice to both the Slovak Government and to international bidders in relation to a number of privatisations
• acting for various Australian and international publicly listed companies regarding corporate governance, shareholder issues, takeovers, acquisitions and disposals.
  

Professional background

Priscilla graduated from Monash University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts.

She was admitted in Victoria in 1997, and in England and Wales in 2000.