Media Release - Cowell Clarke grows its presence in Sydney

Cowell Clarke is expanding its Sydney office with several new director appointments.

This month Michael Bracken joins us from Colin Biggers Paisley to lead our Financial Services team. Robin King, who was most recently with Brown Ward King and Mills Oakley, also joins in the corporate commercial team and Anna Munro, who was Senior legal counsel with Medtronics is joining the property and corporate commercial team.

Cowell Clarke launched its Sydney office in December 2022 which has grown rapidly to 56 employees, and the firm has plans to be a leading national firm in the next 3 years.

CEO Rob Comazzetto said people and innovation were the key elements in building the firm over the next decade.

“Michael joins our firm, not only with a strong track record in senior firm leadership, having been a board member and chairman of a national firm for several years, he also has extensive corporate, transactional and regulatory experience in a range of financial services sectors across insurance, banking, payments fintech, digital innovation and emerging markets.

“He will be a fantastic addition and leader for our existing premier Financial Services team by expanding its market expertise and hitting a digital economy sweet spot where the firm expects to grow in the  future.

“Robin brings significant experience to our corporate transactions and M&A capability, also bringing international experience having started his career in the UK.

“Finally, Anna will further deepen our bench in the corporate and property arena having earnt multiple awards for her contributions across Asia Pacific for Medtronic and groups such as Deloitte, and Andrews & Holm Lawyers.”

In addition to these director appointments, Cowell Clarke has made several additional appointments in Sydney this month including, Senior Associates, Caroline Beasley and Loretta Weber-Pang, and Dominica Lucas as an Associate, joining with Robin King.