Steingold Abel enhances their specialist legal team

Steingold Abel enhances its entire team to meet new business demands from its clients

(PRWEB) July 15, 2004 -- Boutique Sydney law firm, Steingold Abel, has recently enhanced its team by the addition of more specialist lawyers:

Lani Sutherland is the new Property Partner; Lara Garfinkel is a corporate/commercial associate and Annick Vincent an intellectual property specialist.

Lani, previously with top tier firms Minter Ellison and Henry Davis York, joins the firm from the Corporate Counsel division of the State Rail Authority of New South Wales. Partner, Lyle Abel, who previously worked with Lani in the Property and Tourism department at Minter Ellison, enthusiastically welcomes her to Steingold Abel. He says 'Lani's commercial property expertise has great synergy with our client's commercial interests. Her tenacious commitment to our clients' goals will add tremendous value to our clients needs.

Commercial associate Lara Garfinkel, formerly with Deacons, brings unusual benefits to our commercial law team. "Her corporate/regulatory expertise and strong corporate governance background", in the words of partner Colin Steingold, "makes ours a formidable commercial team at Steingold Abel".

Annick Vincent formerly with Gilbert & Tobin and Clayton Utz has also spent three years honing her international intellectual property skills in Hong Kong. Her presence in the firm allows us to challenge the best in the intellectual property field in Australia at highly competitive prices' said Lyle Abel.

In addition, David Penkin, who honed his skills as a litigation partner of Werksmans, one of South Africa's premier law firms, has recently been admitted to practise in New South Wales. Litigation partner, Peter Carlisle, commented that 'his litigation expertise will add value to our clients by enhancing our strong litigation and dispute resolution department'.

This expansion has substantially been driven by our clients' growth and increased commercial activities. Steingold Abel's mission remains to provide their clients with the solutions they seek.

Steingold Abel is a foundation member of Business Cafe. Business Cafe harness diverse and specialised skills for the benefit of the combined customer bases of our members and partners. http://www.businesscafe.com.au/partners_detail.html?ref=12

About Steingold Abel Lawyers. Steingold abel Lawyers was constituted in 1993. The practice services the needs of government departments, listed, unlisted Australian and foreign corporations, private entities and persons.

When consulting us you will find that we are not mere legal practitioners, but, rather, true business "partners" who understand our clients' business needs and take a pro-active approach to anticipate critical business issues and create practical and effective solutions.

Level 20, St Martins Tower

31 Market Street

Sydney 2000, Australia

Tel: (02) 9264 8009

Fax: (02) 9264 7899

Contact: colin@steinabel.com.au; lyle@steinabel.com.au

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