Corporate Panel
Rob Meade is a Senior Lawyer at the Endeavour Group and advises on corporate governance, major transactions, and complex litigation, including class actions, royal commissions, and regulatory investigations. He supports high-stakes commercial projects with strategic, regulatory, and dispute resolution advice. Rob began his career in private practice at MinterEllison before holding senior legal and governance roles at several ASX-listed companies. His expertise spans regulatory affairs, AML/CTF, corporations law, incident and crisis management, and compliance in highly regulated sectors. He holds a BA/LLB from Monash University, and is currently completing an MBA at the University of Melbourne. He is passionate about learning, leadership, and sharing knowledge.
Campbell Johnston is a Partner at Ashurst in the Global Loans team at Ashurst. He has been at Ashurst his whole career (including three years with Ashurst in London) and is now the staff partner for the Melbourne office, responsible for the clerkship and graduate programmes. Campbell acts for a range of financial institutions, corporate borrowers and sponsors on corporate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance and real estate finance transactions. He works across a range of industry sectors and has particular expertise in cross border transactions, multi-source financing platforms, intercreditor arrangements, sustainable finance, fund financing and financing of regulated assets.
Peter Sise works in the litigation department of Clayton Utz as a special counsel. He works on class actions, regulatory disputes, insolvency and restructuring matters and trade practices disputes. He is an author of Wolters Kluwer trade practices commentary and an editor of Inhouse Counsel as well as the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles. Other than Clayton, he has worked for Anderson Mori & Tomostune and the Business Council of Australia.
Mahmoud Kashoa is a Legal Graduate at ASIC, where he has led a review of the non-consenting officeholder complaint process and contributed to law reform proposals to Treasury, including expanding administrative deregistration powers and broadening access to the fee waiver mechanism. He has worked on initiatives to modernise ASIC’s business names regime and explored options to streamline lodgement processes from both legal and operational perspectives. A Monash Law (Honours)/Arts graduate and New Colombo Plan Scholar, Mahmoud previously worked as a political staffer and at the Victorian Ombudsman. His published report on Victoria’s housing supply is held in the Victorian Parliamentary Library.