Leon is commercial counsel of Sladen Legal and is in a select group of less than 100 (or less than 1% of all) lawyers who have been accredited as specialists in Commercial Law by the Law Institute of Victoria.

Leon founded Business Lawyers for Business® to provide commercially focussed and strategic day-to-day (operational, growth, transactional, contentious and compliance) Business Law advice to business

Leon acts as general counsel and advisor to clients in a range of industries on their day-to-day business in both Australia and various overseas jurisdictions and is regularly retained to act and advise on those significant transactional and contentious issues which potentially have a fundamental effect on the on-going operation of businesses.

In addition to significant corporate and commercial law experience, Leon also has particular expertise in intellectual property.

Leon is admitted to practice law in both Australia and the United States.

Leon’s principal practice areas are:

• General counsel advisory

• Corporate/commercial

• Intellectual property

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