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Gavin was formerly the joint Chief Executive Officer of Herbert Smith Freehills. He commenced his career in 1982 as a graduate solicitor in Freehills’ litigation group. In 1988 Gavin became a partner, in 2005 the managing partner and CEO of Freehills and, in 2012 the joint Chief Executive Officer of the firm on the merger of Freehills and Herbert Smith. He continues as a consultant to the firm. Gavin has been involved in dispute resolution and infrastructure development throughout his career....

Jason is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading class action, regulatory investigation and product liability specialists. He has over 25 years’ of litigation experience and has defended the largest class actions and investigations in the Australian market. He is one of the few Australian defence lawyers to have run a class action to final trial and judgment, and is the only Australian lawyer to win two shareholder class actions at trial (on behalf of Worley and Iluka). Jaso...

Ariel is an associate in the Paris office's Dispute Resolution team of Herbert Smith Freehills, with a focus on the finance and banking sector. Ariel has assisted numerous financial institutions, whether in civil or commercial litigation, or in disciplinary proceedings before the AMF (French Financial Markets Authority) or the ACPR (French banking and insurance supervisory authority). He also has extensive experience in conducting internal investigations for financial institutions, in particu...