Liam Hennessy

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Leaders in Law endorses Liam Hennessy as our exclusively recommended Compliance & Regulatory expert in Australia. If you wish to get in touch with Liam, please use the contact information provided above.

Liam Hennessy specialises in compliance / risk matters, regulatory investigations and complex disputes.

His practice focuses on financial services clients, and he has acted for banks, insurers and others in the financial services industry in a number of significant regulatory investigations, commissions of inquiry and class actions spanning multiple international jurisdictions. Liam’s experience covers long periods working in London, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and he is a committed thought leader, including in his capacity as a course creator and lecturer for a financial services regulation law course at a Brisbane university.  He is a member of a number of financial services regulatory policy working committees.

Liam has considerable experience with the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (and its United Kingdom equivalent, the Senior Managers & Certification Regime), ASIC’s DDO / PIP regime, AML / CTF frameworks, financial services and credit licensing obligations, policy reviews, anti-hawking reforms, whistle-blowing frameworks and white-collar crime prevention. More generally, he advises clients in relation to risk, governance and compliance issues. Liam has structured and undertaken a wide range of internal investigations and risk reviews for clients in Australia, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions.

Recent contentious matters include acting in several confidential ASIC investigations for financial services entities; representation of clients called before the Hayne Royal Commission; advising a global bank concerning multiple global regulatory agencies’ investigations into allegations of manipulation of financial benchmarks and related conduct; advising a large mutual bank in relation to multiple UK regulators’ investigations concerning allegations of systemic mismanagement; acting for a leading advisory firm in a class action relating to a large capital raising for a failed construction conglomerate.

Practice Areas

Firm Description:

Gadens is a leading Australian law firm with 97 partners and 880 staff across offices located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. With our history dating back to 1847, our vision is to be a preeminent, independent firm renowned for providing outstanding client service, innovative solutions and value.

We regularly undertake highly complex and day-to-day transactional legal work for a wide range of clients across multiple industry sectors. Our clients include major Australian and multinational organisations – we are advisors to more than a quarter of the Top 200 companies listed on the ASX – as well as many small to medium-sized businesses, and high-net-worth families and individuals.

Our aim is to help our clients achieve their objectives – providing an outstanding client experience for every client, every time. This is underpinned by our intense focus on understanding our clients, their needs and expectations and building meaningful, long-term relationships – a number of which span decades.

Our core values are the firm’s foundation and reflect the essence and character of the firm – they define how we interact with one another and our clients.

 

Miguel Cedeño

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Leaders in Law endorses Miguel Cedeño as our exclusively recommended Regulatory Law expert in Panama. If you wish to get in touch with Miguel please use the contact information provided above.

Miguel is the founding partner of the firm. He graduated in Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Law of the Santa Maria La Antigua Catholic University of Panama, in 1987.

In 1992, he founded the firm with a traditional approach to legal services. However, over the years the firm experienced a number of organizational and strategic changes that resulted in the specialization and expansion of its services.

Miguel specializes in Corporate and Business Law, Labor Law and Real Estate.

He is a member of AMCHAM Panama, the Panama Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and the National Bar Association.

Practice Areas

  • Regulatory Affairs
  • Corporate Law
  • Labor Law
  • Real Estate

Firm Description:

Cedeño & Mendez was founded in 1992, in the Republic of Panama, with the aim of offering the traditional range of legal services. However, over the years we have experienced a series of changes at the organizational and strategic level, which have resulted in the specialization and expansion of our services.

Currently, we are a full-service law firm, specialized in Intellectual Property, Regulatory Affairs (Sanitary Registration), Corporate and Business Law, Litigation & Arbitration, and Regulatory Law. Likewise, we have solid experience in Competition Law, Immigration Law, Labor Law, Estate Planning and Real Estate.

The great team of professionals that make up our firm, characterized by their knowledge, proactivity, dynamism, and experience in all these areas, provide great value to the solutions we offer to our clients.

Over the years, we have experienced constant growth through the expansion of our services in different countries in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, with a solid network of correspondents and business partners. We currently have our own offices in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia, managed from our headquarters in Panama City.

 

Lieven Peeters

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Lieven Peeters is a renowned expert in the field of real estate and construction. He has a deep knowledge of contracts law and general commercial law.

Lieven advises his clients in all aspects of complex real estate transactions, including: the structuring of real estate projects; real estate M&A; sale-and-leaseback transactions; joint ventures; leasing; split structures. Lieven has advised on various major transactions in the Belgian market involving: large shopping centres and several logistic centres; office buildings; commercial properties; large inner-city (re-)developments; and on other real estate niche products (including senior citizens’ housing and mixed-use projects).

Lieven has been recently appointed Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), the world’s leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property, infrastructure and construction. He is also a member of the Professional Association of the Real Estate Sector (BVS – UPSI); the Belgium-Luxembourg Council for Shopping Centres (BLSC); the Belgian Association for Construction Law (BVBR – ABDC); and the International Bar Association. He is a speaker at various seminars and conferences.

Clients point to his “technical knowledge and practical experience” as notable strengths and also praise his negotiation skills. – Chambers Europe, 2018

“The ‘smart and responsive’ Lieven Peeters heads the group at ALTIUS which is ‘outstanding in the field’, ‘dedicated’ and shows ‘very good industry knowledge'” – Legal 500, 2016

“Lieven Peeters of ALTIUS is very pleasant to work with and takes an excellent, no-nonsense approach.” – Chambers Europe, 2014

Winner of the ILO Client Choice Award – Real Estate Belgium in 2015, 2012 and 2011.

Firm Overview:

We are an independent full-service Belgian law firm with an international focus. Our teams are all hands-on, thorough and approachable.

We have a collective drive for excellence and innovation in servicing your legal needs.

Feel free to contact us and find out. We would be pleased to meet you.

Marisa Vella

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Leaders in Law endorses Marisa Vella as our exclusively recommended Regulatory Law expert in Malta. If you wish to get in touch with Marisa please use the contact information provided above.

Marisa is a partner within the EU, Competition & Regulatory practice group and is responsible for a considerable number of litigation and arbitration cases at the firm.

She handles commercial, corporate and civil law disputes as well as corporate insolvency matters.

Marisa represents local and international clients at court, in tribunals and arbitration panels in a wide range of areas. These disputes include shareholder disputes and minority rights, insolvency, intellectual property, transport, insurance, labour law, property-related disputes and banking.

Marisa Vella is a lecturer and an examiner at the University of Malta within the Civil Law department.

Firm Overview:

Camilleri Preziosi – Technical Excellence, Practical Solutions

Camilleri Preziosi is a leading Maltese law firm with a commitment to deliver an efficient service to clients by combining technical excellence with a solution driven approach to the practice of law.

The firm is a specialised practice focusing on domestic and international transactions in the field of corporate and commercial law and in the financial services sector. Now headed by partners Henri Mizzi, Louis de Gabriele, Marisa Vella, Malcolm Falzon, Ron Galea Cavallazzi and Donald Vella, Camilleri Preziosi is at the forefront of local practitioners specialising in these areas.

We pride ourselves on recruiting and training the best lawyers and on embracing a work ethic founded on the core values of honesty, integrity and quality of service: there can be no compromise on striving for excellence.

We take a multi-disciplinary approach to our practice and all our lawyers advise across a broad range of areas. Each lawyer within the firm will have a specific area or areas of practice that indicates a particular competence and experience in that sector, but he or she does not practice exclusively in that area.

Our clients work with lawyers they know well, and who understand their business needs. The close relationships we develop and the keen interest we take in our clients’ businesses enable us to give practical and effective advice.

In other words, advice that adds value.