Gerald Parncutt has extensive experience as a trial and appellate advocate. He has appeared in a broad range of civil matters, including contract and property disputes.
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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