Jill Williams

Jill Williams maintains a broad commercial practice, specialising in complex commercial disputes, class actions, equity, competition and consumer law, insurance, and corporations and insolvency.

Initially admitted to the Bar in Victoria, Jill now practices full time from Sydney and accepts briefs nationally. She has acted for major Australian and international corporations, financial institutions, insurers, fund managers and government agencies. She is recognised as a Leading Junior Counsel for Commercial Disputes in the Legal 500: Australian Bar (2025).

Before being called to the Bar, Jill was a Senior Associate at Allens, specialising in complex commercial, regulatory and insurance disputes, and completed an in-house secondment at NAB. She has previously lectured at the University of Melbourne in Corporate Insolvency and was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports between 2018 and 2023.

Jill holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from Oxford University, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Monash University.

Bart Dziubinski

Bart accepts briefs in a broad range of areas including commercial, equity, corporations, regulatory, financial services, insolvency, and taxation law.

Before his call to the bar, Bart was a senior associate at O’Loughlin Westhoff, a boutique litigation firm. Before that, he was tipstaff to the Honourable Justice RW White of the NSW Court of Appeal, and to the Honourable Justice SG Campbell of the Supreme Court of NSW. Bart teaches Equity at the University of Technology Sydney.

Bart holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and University Medal) and a Bachelor of Business (Economics) from the University of Technology Sydney.

Christopher Chiam

Christopher accepts briefs in all areas of law, with a particular interest in commercial, equity, revenue, and public law.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Christopher was tipstaff to the Honourable Justice AJ Meagher of the NSW Court of Appeal and practised as a solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he worked primarily on complex commercial litigation. Christopher has also been a Teaching Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales with First Class Honours and the University Medal, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) with Distinction. He also holds a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney, where he was awarded the Judge Samuel Redshaw Prize for administrative law. He has also published a number of articles in peer-reviewed law journals, including on the areas of administrative law, statutory construction, equity, and insolvency.

Rico Jedrzejczyk

Rico Jedrzejczyk (pronounced “Yen-Jay-Chik”)

Rico was called to the Bar in 2012 and has a broad commercial and taxation practice. He is listed in Best Lawyers 2027 for Information Technology Law and Defamation and Media Law. He is recognised in Doyle’s Guide 2025 to the legal profession as Recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications junior counsel.

Rico’s recent experience includes:

Acting for GetSwift Ltd in proceedings brought by ASIC and related shareholder class action.
Acting for the successful taxpayer, Mr Andrew Greig, in a Full Court appeal considering the application of the Myer Emporium principle to trading in listed shares.
Acting for insurers in proceedings arising out of a claim for indemnity in excess of $1 billion by parties involved in the Queensland floods class action litigation.
Appearing for the Seven Network in various matters, including proceedings arising out of the termination of the Yahoo!7 joint venture.
Acting for reinsurers in litigation concerning a $750 million claim by the National Australia Bank in respect of losses incurred in selling interest rate hedging products in the United Kingdom.

Rico regularly appears for taxpayers and the ATO in taxation matters.

Rico completed his law degree at Sydney University and has a Master of Laws from Columbia University in New York.

Brendan Sullivan SC

Memberships of professional associations:

NSW Bar Association
Taxation Institute of Australia

Mr Sullivan is listed in Chambers & Partners 2026 Global and Asia-Pacific rankings for Tax Law, and Doyle’s Guide 2025 as ‘Preeminent’ Tax Law Senior Counsel NSW. He is also recognised in Best Lawyers Australia 2027 for his work in Tax Law, and was named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for Tax Law in 2027. Legal 500 recognises him as a Leading silk Band 1 in Commercial Disputes for 2025. Mr Sullivan is also recognised in the Lexology Index as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Tax; Advisory and Controversy.

Dean Stretton

Professional Associations
New South Wales Bar Association

Prior Experience
Dean was admitted to practice in 2006 and worked as a Lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) in Canberra and as a Senior Associate at Henry Davis York in Sydney before being admitted to the NSW Bar in 2012.

Experience at the Bar
Dean appears regularly in interlocutory and substantive hearings in the Local, District, Supreme and Federal Courts across a range of practice areas including contract, tax, equity, negligence, misleading and deceptive conduct, and family provision.

Publications
“The Birth Torts: Damages for Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Life” (2005) 10 Deakin Law Review 319
“Wrongful Life and the Logic of Non-Existence” (2006) 30 Melbourne Law Review 972

Richard Scruby SC

Mr Scruby has a broad ranging practice with a focus on commercial, insolvency, corporations and taxation (State and Commonwealth) matters. He regularly appears in appeals, trials and commercial arbitrations. In 2015 he was counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption. Before coming to the bar, he worked as an associate to Justice Callinan in the High Court of Australia. He has a BCL and MPhil from Oxford University and a BA (hons 1^st class and university medal in English) and LLB (hons first class) Sydney University. Mr Scruby has adopted the national equitable briefing policy and was a member of the Diversity and Equality Committee of the New South Wales Bar Association from 2016 to 2018. He has published a number of articles in academic journals on corporations and commercial law. Mr Scruby is listed in Best Lawyers 2026 in the area of Litigation.

Stefan Balafoutis SC

Stefan advises and appears for corporations, government agencies and individuals in complex commercial disputes. He is recognised in Best Lawyers Australia 2027 for his expertise in Commercial Law and in Doyles 2025 as a leading tax law senior counsel. He has a particular interest in contracts, property law, taxation, regulatory disputes, corporations law and intellectual property.

Contractual, property and regulatory disputes: his clients include Ford Motor Company, Lendlease, Optus, Westpac, Qantas, the ACCC and the Australian Energy Regulator. He also acts for medium size businesses and property developers in a broad range of disputes.

Taxation: Stefan is regularly briefed by the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue and taxpayers. He has appeared in leading cases about stamp duty, payroll tax and land tax. Recent matters include appearances in the NSW Supreme Court and Court of Appeal about whether power stations should attract stamp duty, whether payroll tax should be imposed on payments made by medical centres, loan aggregators and Uber to their contractors, and the extent of the employment agency and relevant contracts provisions.

Corporations law: Stefan has been awarded an Advanced Certificate in Insolvency from ARITA and is a professional member of ARITA. He appears for liquidators and corporations. Stefan has experience in oppression proceedings, matters alleging breach of directors’ duties and proceedings seeking the recovery of unfair preferences and uncommercial transactions.

Intellectual property: his clients include Universal Music, Phonographic Performance Company of Australia and Sony. Stefan has acted in substantial trade mark and copyright disputes in the Federal Court and Copyright Tribunal.