Darren appears and advises in all areas of commercial, insurance, corporations and contract law. He is committed to working collaboratively with clients to understand their interests and motivations in order to achieve the best possible outcome.

Darren has a special interest in the following commercial areas of practice:

Contract Disputes

• Darren is regularly briefed to review commercial contracts (including insurance contracts) to advise on drafting and regulatory issues.
• He is also often briefed in commercial disputes involving complex contractual arrangements, often involving multiple parties and contracts.
• He has particular experience in interpretation and indemnity disputes.

Insurance Matters

• Darren accepts briefs in indemnity disputes in all insurance lines. He has particular experience in liability insurance disputes.
• He is also commonly briefed in matters in which indemnity has been granted to policyholders and has a special interest in the effective management of the relationships between insurers, policyholders, and their representatives.
• Darren also has extensive knowledge of the regulatory environment in which insurers operate. He is able to clearly advise both insurers and policyholders of their respective rights and obligations.

Regulation

• Darren has experience in assisting businesses in responding to regulatory investigations, including those conducted by the ACCC, ASIC and the ATO.

Mediations

Darren is an accredited mediator. He accepts briefs to appear as a mediator in matters pertaining to commercial disputes and insurance matters (including common law and professional indemnity/negligence disputes). Darren’s mediation style is facilitative, though he brings his subject-matter knowledge to those disputes.

Darren welcomes being briefed directly by corporations to advise on both contentious and uncontentious matters and will consider fixed fee or capped fee billing arrangements in appropriate cases.

Adjacent to his practice at the Bar, Darren is currently a member of the Australian Insurance Law Association's board and the Immediate Past President AILA's Victorian committee. He is also a member of International Cycling Executives (ICE) and regularly rides with the ‘Knights of Suburbia’.

He holds a Masters in Law from the University of Melbourne and is a sessional teaching associate at Monash University. He has taught in contracts, corporations law, litigation and dispute resolution.