Gemma Abbey

Practice Leader

Practice Areas

Corporate and Commercial
Disputes and Litigation

Gemma is a Practice Leader with LegalVision’s Disputes team. She has over 12 years of experience as a litigator covering a diverse range of areas of law including Commercial disputes, Employment law, Body Corporate disputes, Insurance Claims and Debt Recovery. Gemma has worked for top law firms in Australia and the UK and is qualified in Scotland, as well as Australia.

Gemma has extensive experience acting for clients in disputes in NSW, QLD, WA and Victoria ranging from small claims to multimillion-dollar Supreme Court proceedings.

Whilst her passion is for litigation, Gemma’s main focus is to achieve commercial outcomes for her clients and provide practical advice to assist with the resolution of their disputes.

In her spare time, Gemma enjoys being outdoors and at the beach with her son and daughter.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Aberdeen.

Expertise

Disputes and Litigation

Providing advice to clients in relation to disputes, alternative dispute resolution, proceedings, costs and associated risks.

Acting for clients in proceedings brought against them, drafting Court documents (Defences, Applications, Discovery) and appearing in Court on their behalf.

Commencing proceedings in Court on behalf of clients, drafting Court documents (Statements of Claim, Summons, Applications, Discovery), and appearing in Court on their behalf.

Client Reviews

The legal work provided by the team at LegalVision has been invaluable to Just Cuts. LegalVision’s balance between quality and efficiency is particularly impressive and integral to the success of our many franchised outlets. Their lawyers maintain a consistently high quality of service and their fixed-fee approach is a breath of fresh air.

Amber Turnbull, Just Cuts (COO)

LegalVision assisted with a number of legal docs and advice including negotiating with large corporates. They demonstrate pragmatism, experience and deep understanding of our business' risk profile, and has led to us counting LegalVision as an integral ingredient to the overall success of our business.

Anthony Bekker, ROKT (Head of Operations Strategy)

We have worked with LegalVision on our shareholders agreement, employee share scheme and a capital raise. Their fees are very reasonable compared to “name” firms and they have repeatedly gone the extra mile and demonstrate they know the startup space.

John Baini, TruePillars (Co-Founder & CEO)

LegalVision's lawyers are the team you want by your side when reviewing and negotiating contract terms. We’ve worked with LegalVision during our Friends & Family Round where they prepared our convertible notes, and during our seed round which we closed with excellent terms and well ahead of schedule.

Federico Collarte, Baraja Pty Ltd (Founder)