Justin brought his practice to Cowen Schwarz Marschke in 2013, after:

• 5 years as a Partner at an international firm based in Brisbane/Melbourne;
• 5 years with a magic circle firm based in London; and
• more than 5 years including his training at a leading first-tier Australian firm.

Recent high-profile matters include:

• Searches and investigations by regulatory bodies including the ACCC and the ASIC into issues such as insider trading and other regulatory issues (having acted in the seminal case in relation to penalty charges against the UK OFT);
• Anti-corruption and similar investigations and defence of claims for clients in industries including oil & gas, construction & engineering, logistics and local governments (having introduced world-first anti-corruption measures for clients, including government contractors, around the world);
• Data protection including successfully recovering losses from cyber fraud (phishing scams) against Queensland SMEs (having advised Queensland government bodies on compliance since the introduction of information privacy regulation in Queensland in the late ‘90s);
• Disputes arising from world-first infrastructure such as oil & gas facilities and tunnels in Australia including analysis of the application of the existing Queensland legislation and regulatory framework to such infrastructure, and to parties with interests in the infrastructure and associated land and petroleum tenures (having acted in various project disputes from defects to contamination and the drawing down of bank guarantees and freezing of assets around the world);
• Royalty disputes in relation to natural resources in Australia including acting for a party in the first dispute about such subject matter in the Queensland Supreme Court;
• Joint venture, shareholder and partnership disputes including in relation to large scale property and resources developments in Queensland (having acted in one of the seminal cases in Queensland involving Anton Pillar orders and jurisdiction challenges as well as international arbitrations and enforcement of awards arising from various natural resources ventures and transactions around the world);
• One of the first combustible cladding disputes in Queensland including advising on the application of the existing and changing legislation and regulatory framework including self-reporting and rectification measures (having acted in various construction and engineering disputes in Queensland);
• Disputes in relation to the largest domestic insurance claim in Australia’s history arising from suspected arson in relation to a property in Queensland (having acted with and against most major insurers);
• Defending a local Queensland business in the first prosecution for infringement of registered designs and related intellectual property (having done commercial intellectual property work for start-ups and multinationals as well as enforcement of intellectual property rights throughout Australia);
• The fall-out from collapses of cutting-edge tech start-ups like Queensland-based Guvera and household names like Robin’s Kitchens, as well as headline-grabbing insolvencies around the world for directors, insolvency practitioners and creditors (having previously acted in relation to some of the largest insolvencies in Australia such as the Emmanuel Group);
• Defending various State government bodies in the first class actions in relation to natural disasters in Australia including acting and advising a Queensland Government-owned corporation in the 2011 Queensland floods class action proceeding in the Supreme Court of NSW as well as acting in relation to the Queensland Right to Information legislation and regulatory framework and the Queensland class action legislation subsequently introduced (having acted in the seminal case on litigation funding in Australia);
• Professional negligence including claims and disciplinary action by regulatory bodies against accountants, lawyers, engineers, valuers and other professional in Queensland and around the world (having successfully defended a international audit firm from the largest money judgment at that time in the High Court of England and Wales);
• Anti-suit injunctions and actions restraining parties bringing proceedings for issues already commenced or decided in other jurisdictions (having made submissions to the European Parliament and Council which changed the law in the European Union);
• Claims to native title over bodies of water to the north of Queensland.