Gerald Parncutt

Gerald has particular expertise in the law of guarantees and practices in the following areas:

• joint venture litigation, enforcement or setting aside of contracts, deeds, loan guarantees and related securities and all aspects of mortgage and land law.
• contract law, equity and mortgage litigation
• partnership, agency & trusts litigation
• local and transnational franchise litigation and IP law including software
• cross-jurisdictional disputes & enforcement of foreign judgments
• Australian Stock Exchange option-trading litigation and market manipulation litigation
• shareholder disputes
• ICC international commercial arbitration conducted under the International Court of Arbitration.
• cross border marital property law litigation 
• transnational law
• financial services litigation
• revenue law

Education:

Melbourne:

• University of Melbourne Law School – Bachelor of Laws (LLB)                                                                                                                                
• Monash University Law School -Grad. Diploma of Legal Studies                                                                                                                                             

Paris, France:

• ICC Institute of World Business Law – Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration (2013)                                                                                                                                       

Cambridge, Massachusetts:

• Harvard Law School

-Certificate in Mediation (2003)

-Certificate in Computer Science for Lawyers (2019-2020) 

-Certificate in Financial Analysis & Valuation for Lawyers (2022)

Academic:                                                                                                                                                      

–Butterworth’s Book Prize in Comparative Law at University of Melbourne Law School                                                                                                                                                                       

-Attended the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, for comparative law thesis 

-Lecturer in International Comparative Corporate Law at Victoria University Law School, Melbourne

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