Rod has over 30 years’ experience in consumer and business law, and specialises in wealth protection, business succession and personal estate planning. He has been a director of numerous companies and NFPs, with clients also benefitting from Rod’s first hand commercial experience. Rod is author of the acclaimed text ‘Understanding Wills and Estate Planning”.
Expertise
- Personal Estate Planning
- Business Succession Planning
- Wealth Protection
- Corporate & Personal Insolvency
- Corporate and Commercial Law & Practice
- Reconstruction and business turnaround solutions
Recognition
Rod has lectured nationally and internationally on a range of topics relating to business transactions, business structures, corporate governance, wealth protection, personal estate planning and business exit planning.
Rod’s professional qualifications and memberships include:
- BA, LLB (UNSW)
- Master of Laws (Applied Laws) majoring in Wills & Estates (LLM)
- Member International Society of Trustee and Estate Practitioners
- Member of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia
- Director – Convention Travel Pty Ltd
- Director – Unconventional Conventions Pty Ltd
Rod is the author of the plain English text ‘Understanding Wills and Estate Planning”.
Rod is also extensively involved in the disability sector, and is a regular voluntary speaker at education functions for parents of disabled children.
Rod’s prior professional positions include:
- Accredited Specialist – Commercial Litigation
- Accredited Advisor – National Stock Exchange (NSX)
- Advisor – Family Business Australia
- Chair – Wollongong Stock Exchange Steering Committee
- Director – Turnaround Management Association of Australia
- Chair – Insolvency & Reconstruction Law Committee, Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
- Director – The Illawarra Connection Inc
- Director – Circus Monoxide Inc
- Formerly a member of the Elder Law and Succession Committee of the Law Society of NSW
Career
| 2016 | Keypoint Law | Consulting Principal |
| 2008 – 2016 | Slater & Gordon| National Practice Group Leader Estate Planning |
| 2002 – 2008 | Access Business Lawyers, Sydney & Wollongong| Managing Director |
| 1991 – 2002 | Sole Practitioner |
| 1987 – 1991 | Abbott Tout, Sydney & Parramatta| Partner |
| 1979 – 1987 | Brown & Partners, Sydney) | Partner |