Stephen Blanks
Stephen has 30 years’ post-admission experience, having graduated in Law and Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1983, and commenced legal practice in 1985.
Stephen commenced his own legal practice in 1991, and has now been in his own practice for more than 24 years. In 1996, Stephen became an Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation.
Stephen has always, since first being admitted as a lawyer, worked in litigation matters and advised on corporation and commercial transactions.
On the litigation side, Stephen has acted in significant litigation involving takeovers, schemes of arrangement, compulsory acquisition of shares, intellectual property
infringement, winding up companies and general commercial disputes. The matters have been in a wide variety of Courts, including the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court
of Australia, every Supreme Court in Australia (except Northern Territory and South Australia), and various lower Courts and Tribunals.
On the corporate and commercial side, Stephen has advised on significant business acquisitions and sales, intellectual property development and licensing, joint ventures,
venture capital transactions, franchising, company formations, trade practices issues, trade marks and property transactions. Stephen’s clients have tended to be in industries
dependent on intellectual property, especially in the IT and biotechnology industries.
Running his own practice has enabled Stephen to pursue many interesting areas in and around the law.
At present, one of Stephen’s major areas of interest is commercialising intellectual property, and Stephen is a director of and shareholder in Vecor Limited, a company
commercialising technologies for the utilisation of waste fly ash from coal-fired power stations. Stephen is also active in the human rights and civil liberties space, and is
currently the President of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. Stephen appears frequently in the media on a variety of issues in this role.
Contact Stephen |
+61 2 9555 8654 |
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