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Christina Segaan

Senior Associate

Melbourne

+61 3 8687 7368 0423 760 744

Christina is an experienced commercial litigation and transactions lawyer, with a proven track record of advising and representing clients across a broad range litigious and non-litigious matters. Her litigious experience includes commercial and corporate disputes, property disputes, debt recovery, insolvency, banking and finance, consumer law and defamation proceedings. 

EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Christina’s experience is complemented by her front-end advice for clients regarding privacy, as well as preparing agreements, terms and conditions and other corporate documents.

She has appeared and instructed in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Courts of Victoria and New South Wales, County Court, Fair Work Commission, Magistrates Court as well as VCAT, and works with Counsel on a regular basis. Christina utilises her litigation experience to advise clients on how to avoid litigation at an early stage, as well in relation to the preparation of agreements, policies and other documents.

Christina provides tailored strategic advice and advice to a diverse range of clients and on complex matters, to achieve the best possible outcome.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Christina’s accomplishments include:
  • Acting in a multi-party litigated matter in the Supreme Court on behalf of commercial purchasers, where the vendor sought to rely on the sunset clause for financial gain
  • Acting on behalf of a large corporation in a misleading and deceptive conduct matter, arising from a breach of contract, with a counterclaim in excess of $40 million
  • Acting in a defamation proceeding against one of the “big 3” media networks and other media subsidiaries
  • Acting on behalf of clients in contract disputes, including a litigated matter in the County Court, where a contract of sale of business had been substantially amended verbally
  • Acting on behalf of corporate clients in their disputes relating to property in the Supreme Court, including but not limited to seeking and opposing injunctions, removal and maintenance of caveats, opposing mortgagee in possession sales and specific performance of contracts
  • Acting on behalf of corporate clients in penalty interest matters, including a litigated matter where a lender sought to impose and exorbitant interest rate, applicable at the trigger of default
  • Acting in a multi-party litigated matter in the Supreme Court and on appeal in the Court of Appeal, arising from a multi-million-dollar family trust dispute
  • Acting on behalf of a developer in the Supreme Court and on appeal in the Court of Appeal, arising from the repudiation of a development contract.

Expertise

Qualifications

  • Master of Laws, 2020, The College of Law Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws, 2018, Victoria University

Memberships

  • Law Institute of Victoria