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John O'Kane

Partner

+61 3 9603 3120
john.okane@hallandwilcox.com.au
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Current Practice

John's experience includes:

  • development advice and preparation of development agreements and agreements for lease;
  • preparing documentation for large and small scale construction projects;
  • due diligence on construction and development documentation for financiers;
  • engineering, maintenance and supply contracts;
  • VCAT and Court-based litigation; and
  • arbitrations and security of payment claims.

Experience

John’s area of practice includes a front-end development focus for large scale developments with a particular interest in health-related development, having acted for several hospitals and aged care developers.

John’s front-end experience includes providing advice and the preparation of all types of agreements and documentation required for building projects. John performs this work for financiers, proprietors and contractors and has assisted in preparing documents relating to substantial apartment developments, retirement villages, major construction projects and shopping centres.

John also maintains a diverse construction litigation practice. Matters concluded and current include large scale engineering claims, complex delay, disruption and variation claims and a variety of defects, bank guarantee recovery, liquidated damages, contract based and trade practices claims. John’s construction litigation experience is preceded by experience in general commercial property litigation. 

Qualifications

John holds a Diploma of Health Science (Medical Imaging), a Graduate Certificate in Instruction (Teaching) and an LLB (Hons) from Monash University. John joined Hall & Wilcox as a partner in July 2010.

Prior to joining Hall & Wilcox, John completed articles at Macpherson + Kelley and moved to Gadens in 2001 where he became a partner in 2008.  ​

 

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