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PETER CHALLEN  B.A, LL.B

Principal

Peter was admitted to practice as a Solicitor of the Queensland Supreme Court in 1972 and has been a partner at Hawthorn Cuppaidge & Badgery since 1975. He became the Principal of the firm in 1978.

Peter has extensive legal experience in corporate law, securities law and commercial property law transactions comprising:

• Negotiating and drafting property contracts and leases for commercial property transactions

• Drafting mortgage documentation used by a number of banks and other financial institutions in Queensland

• Drafting franchise agreements and disclosure statements for national franchisors

• Running major litigation cases in the High Court of Australia including succeeding in the leading trade practice (abuse of monopoly powers) case of Queensland Wire Industries Pty Ltd v BHP as well as in the trust law case involving St Martin’s Hospital

• Obtaining USD $18 million for all Australian and New Zealand Vietnam Veterans involved with Agent Orange chemical exposure in Vietnam in a class action in the USA (the first time non US citizens were allowed to join a class action in the USA)

• Acting in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland for Ice Skating Australia Inc in Ice Skating Australia Inc v. International Skating Union, a major test case in international sports law

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