I am an astute lawyer and businessman with proven experience in private legal practice, small business management and development and private equity funded business ventures in Africa and Australia. As a lawyer, I have spent many years building my practice around the areas of corporate/commercial, taxation and property law. I am good at pursuing and negotiating outcomes for clients, advising on complex legal arrangements and business transactions, including structuring and re-structuring businesses, corporate structures and investments, designing and implementing structural / risk management / taxation / succession solutions for businesses and individuals, documenting transactions professionally, managing teams and projects, providing corporate and social leadership, networking and building lasting relationships with colleagues and clients and generally making rain. I succeed personally and deliver results for my clients and firm by being principled and disciplined, by building relationships, working hard and by seeking clever and effective solutions to problems. I get up and keep going because of my family around me every day, whom I adore so much, because I get to meet and interact with people all the time, because I am privileged to be a lawyer and live in a great country, because I feed on the the challenges of business and because I love the ocean.