Louise’s expertise includes:

• Professional negligence including financial services, construction professionals, real estate
• Medical malpractice and healthcare risk for practitioners, health groups, public and private hospitals, allied health
• Corporate risk including directors and officers, management liability, employment practices, public liability, ISR, crime and fraud
• Specialist risk such as environmental liability, data security and privacy, warranty and indemnity, lenders’ mortgage insurance, cross undertaking and after-the-event insurance
• Advising boards and management on personal and business risk mitigation
• Innovative and accurate negotiation and drafting for multi-party transactions
• Policy interpretation and drafting across a wide range of risk scenarios including re-insurance, excess insurance, complex group programs and dual insurance issues
• Working with industry bodies to provide solutions and thought leadership.

• Defending a board of directors in relation to claim for wrongful dismissal brought by CEO.
• Acting for service provider to Red Cross in relation to major data breach.
• Defending medical practitioners and allied health professionals across broad range of specialties in Supreme and District Courts.
• Representing real estate agent in high profile Coronial Inquest into death of child relating to controversial issues regarding failure of a fire alarm.
• Advising on various Commonwealth Bank matters including the AUSTRAC prosecution, class action, bank bill swap rate prosecution and Royal Commission.
• Reviewing a multi-million dollar primary and excess insurance program for an Australian international construction and retail business.
• Advising board of an international food and agriculture business on an annual risk assessment program for board due diligence.
• Advising developer of large residential development on bespoke insurance and indemnity clauses in a specialist multiparty design, construct, operate and maintain contract.

• Ranked Lawyer, Insurance, Chambers Asia-Pacific.
• Recommended Lawyer, Insurance Law/Medical Negligence,/Professional Malpractice Litigation, Best Lawyers in Australia.
• Recommended Lawyer, Medical Negligence/ Professional Indemnity/ Public Liability, Doyle’s Guide.
• Recommended Lawyer, Insurance, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
• Leading Lawyer, Insurance and Re-insurance, Euromoney’s Expert Guide.