Professional Practices
Nicholas is a senior associate with extensive experience advising on complex, cross-border employment matters across the APAC region. Skilled in both contentious and non-contentious work, including workplace investigations, employment litigation, strategic advisory, contractual and transactional support, privacy/data protection matters, and policy development. Nicholas’ key specialism is global compliance and workforce strategy in the evolving employment law landscape across the Asia-Pacific.
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Representing regional and international corporations and government clients, Nicholas has extensive experience advising on complex, cross-border matters across the APAC region. He is a Solicitor of the High Court of Australia.
Nicholas’ practice spans both contentious and non-contentious work, including workplace investigations, employment litigation, strategic advisory, privacy/data protection, transactional support, and policy development.
Nicholas also advises public and private entities on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He has supported in-house teams across numerous APAC jurisdictions by developing internal policies, compliance manuals, training materials to cater for a wide array of jurisdiction-specific obligations.
Nicholas has advised local and federal governments across a range of legal issue, from privacy compliance and data retention to complaint management and due process.
Experience
- Advising on employment law and privacy/data protection aspects of cross-jurisdictional M&As.
- Advising on the conduct of workplace investigations for multinational clients operating in Australia.
- Advising on employment law litigation across relevant tribunals, commissions, and Courts in Australia.
- Advising on internal documents, policies, and practices for multinational clients to accommodate best practice in Australia and other APAC countries