When faced with the solitude of lockdown, Allens Partner Andrew Pascoe and Wesfarmers General Manager – Legal (Corporate) Sheldon Renkema realised the value of finding avenues to maintain human connection, both among their respective teams, and as part of an ongoing professional relationship. ...

For Allens Managing Associate Elyse Adams and Aware Super Senior Legal Manager Thornton Christensen, intense negotiations through a hard lockdown allowed their naturally fun and relaxed working styles to shine ...

Parenting a newborn can be lonely at the best of times. Add a natural disaster and a global pandemic to the mix and 'isolation' takes on new meaning. Allens Partner Renee Boundy and GPT Group Treasury Manager (and Allens alumna) Lily Zhang supported one another through the ups and downs of new parenthood with their own pandemic parents' group. ...

Fiona Crosbie and Iňaki Beroata worked together on the Vodafone / TPG case described by the ACCC as its most important merger litigation in a decade, but neither of them could have known just how critical the newly merged company would be to keeping Australians and the economy connected in 2020. ...

A long-term trusted and collaborative working relationship saw Hanoi-based Allens Partner Melissa Keane and Hong Kong-based Linklaters Counsel Ying Fu seize new opportunities in 2020 – for their clients, for Vietnam and for the planet. ...