gena kawaguchi

partner

expertise

  • Commercial and Corporate

Gena Kawaguchi is a Partner in our commercial team. She works across a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters including:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Shareholders and Unitholders Agreements

  • Partnership and Joint Venture Agreements

  • General contract review and drafting

  • Australian Consumer Law

  • Business Restructuring

  • Trusts

  • Finance and Securities

Gena also has experience in property, estate planning, insolvency and general asset protection.

She was admitted as a lawyer in NSW in August 2005.

Gena speaks Italian and in her spare time she enjoys going to the beach and spending time with family and friends.

memberships

  • The Law Society of New South Wales

  • Commercial Law Association

  • Australian Institute of Company Directors

qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney

  • Bachelor of Science, University of Sydney

 

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