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KHQ Lawyers - Leading Technology Media and Telecommunications Law Firms 2024

KHQ is recognised in the Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law Firms category of Doyles Guide.

KHQ Lawyers - Best Lawyers in Australia 2025

Adam Lambert, Chris Gianatti, Claire Brown, Damian Tarulli, Harry Giannakidis, Ines Kallweit, Yudi New and Natalie Cambrell have all been recognised in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers™ in Australia. Gemma Carroll, Justin Harty and David Hastie have also been included in the Ones To Watch category. The firm has also been ranked in the inaugural edition of The Best Law Firms in Australia. See our Recognition page for more details.

KHQ Lawyers - Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Leading Firm, Labour & Employment

KHQ is once again recognised in the Leading Employment Law Firms (Employer Representation)  and Leading Workplace Health & Safety Law Firms categories of Doyles Guide for 2024. Gemma Carroll is also recognised as a Rising Star in these categories.

KHQ Lawyers - Legal 500 Asia Pacific - Leading Firm

KHQ is recognised as a leading firm in both the Labour & Employment (Tier 3) and Competition & Trade (Tier 4) categories of the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024.

KHQ Lawyers - Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024 - Employment Law

KHQ’s Workplace Relations & Safety team is recognised in the list of leading employment law firms in the Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific guide for 2024. Chris Gianatti is again ranked for employment law, and Natalie Cambrell is ranked for superannuation law.

KHQ Lawyers - Wills & Estates - Doyles Guide - First Tier

Our Wills & Estates team has been ranked Tier 1 in the Leading Wills Estates & Succession Planning Law Firms category (Victoria) of Doyles Guide, one of only 4 firms recognised at this level. Congratulations also to Ines Kallweit, Rachael Hocking and Oliver LaCaze for also being recognised.

Commercial Property & Development

We have extensive expertise in advising on various commercial property transactions including commercial leasing, land development, sales and acquisitions, and related matters (such as taxation issues).

Competition Law & Regulatory Compliance

Our expertise spans a wide range of competition and regulatory matters including advice on major transactions, anti-competitive conduct, regulatory investigations, consumer protection, unfair contract terms, marketing law, and product safety and recalls.

Construction & Infrastructure

We provide a full service offering to construction industry participants, with tailored advice and strategic thinking key to helping our clients navigate the full raft of issues that arise across the lifecycle of a project.

Corporate & Commercial

Focused, results driven capability to act in significant corporate transactions and important, sensitive governance matters.

Data Privacy, Cyber & Digital

Comprehensive advice on data protection compliance, transactions, data sharing, cyber incidents, data rights and regulatory enquiries. Our practice supports clients on UK/EU GDPR matters and market entry strategies.

Family & Relationship Law

Our team includes accredited specialists who are also trained mediators and collaborative lawyers. We provide a range of family and relationship law services, including mediation and dispute resolution, and LGBTI related family law matters.

Food & Beverage

Full-service legal assistance for food & beverage industry clients. We specialise in the tricky, sticky, and nitty-gritty, so you can concentrate on what’s important: food, glorious food.

Insolvency & Restructuring

In conjunction with the firm's other practice groups, particularly the Corporate & Commercial group, we can assist in the implementation of any proposed restructure.

Intellectual Property

Our team has extensive experience advising local and international clients on protecting, exploiting and commercialising their intellectual property rights across a diverse range of industries.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

We act for individuals and both large and small businesses in commercial litigation matters. We are committed to ensuring the best outcome for our clients and our focus where possible is to achieve early and effective commercial solutions without resorting to litigation.

Notary Public

We notarise documents for private individuals and businesses involved in international trade, including powers of attorney, court documents, contracts, ship’s protests and company documents.

Private Wealth

Our team provides expert advice to businesses and business owners, high net worth individuals (including executives), families and intermediaries in relation to business structuring, succession planning, taxation law issues, wills & estates, estates litigation and family and relationship law issues.

Superannuation & Financial Services

With industry leading expertise, our highly skilled team supports various premier superannuation funds in Australia to navigate the highly complex and constantly evolving regulatory landscape in the financial services sector.

Tax & Structuring

Our team acts for corporates, private businesses, business owners and professional advisors in providing strategic, on-point and expert advice on commercial transactions, restructures, business structuring, trusts and succession planning.

Technology

We provide a range of commercial legal services to both technology businesses and investors into technology businesses. We also act for start-ups, private and large corporate incubators as well as multi-national technology businesses with interests in Australia.

Wills & Estates

Our expertise encompasses simple Wills, complex estate and succession planning, administration and estate litigation, complemented by our private wealth and taxation capability.

Workplace Relations & Safety

Full service industrial relations and employment expertise drawn from longstanding experience in a variety of top tier and in-house corporate roles, headed by one of the country's leading practitioners.

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