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Christina Trahanas
Called 2018

Telephone

02 8039 7203

Practice Areas

Administrative, public & constitutional

Appellate

Banking & financial services

Class actions

Climate change

Commercial & contract law

Competition & consumer

Corporations & insolvency

Human rights & anti-discrimination

Insurance

International law & arbitration

Mining, resources & energy

National security law & public interest immunity

Planning & environment

Professional & product liability & negligence

Property & equity

Regulatory proceedings & investigations

Royal commissions, inquiries & inquests

Christina has a wide-ranging practice, with a focus on commercial disputes, class actions, judicial review proceedings, regulatory matters, planning and environmental law, and international law. She appears in a variety of courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court of NSW, the Federal Court and the Land and Environment Court, in interlocutory hearings, and trial and appellate matters.

Before coming to the Bar, Christina was an attorney at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York, where she specialised in large and complex international arbitrations, particularly in the construction, banking, mining and energy sectors. Christina also previously worked for the Office of International Law at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, advising the Federal Government on public international law and working on an investor-State arbitration, and at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office, where she worked on matters raising questions of statutory construction and other public law issues.

In addition, she served as Research Director to the former Chief Justice of NSW, James Spigelman AC KC, and as Tipstaff to Justice John Basten in the Supreme Court of NSW.

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