Tania Kearsley, Consultant

Expertise

Tania is a consultant to our intellectual property and innovation team.

With experience in a tier one firm, as an in-house lawyer at the University of Queensland and in a boutique IP law practice, Tania also has an interest in ethics committees and bioethics, especially the interaction between the law and bioethics as it impacts on scientific endeavour.

Her clients have included public sector agencies, local councils, major banks, property developers and franchisors.

Areas of practice

• Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)
• Intellectual property licensing and adoption/commercialisation arrangements
• Structure and governance arrangements for research and development collaborations and institutes
• Corporate governance and company secretarial services
• Commonwealth and state funding agreements
• Operation of ethics committees in research organisations
• Information technology contracts and licences (including contracts incorporating GITC)

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws (Hons), Queensland University of Technology
• Master of Laws, Queensland University of Technology
• Master of Bioethics, Monash University

Recent projects

• Acting in the transition of a key South East Queensland waterways initiative into an incorporated entity.
• Acting in the establishment of a new unincorporated joint venture to assume responsibility for the annual International Riversymposium.
• Acting in the establishment of a research institute and network focused on indigenous men’s health issues.
• Advising on legal structure for parties bidding for funding in the 2009 CRC funding round.
• Negotiating a major commonwealth procurement contract for the establishment of a national medical register.
• Advising on the establishment of a number of independent research institutes.

Professional memberships

• Queensland Law Society
• Law Council of Australia, Legal Practice Section
• Women on Boards
• Amnesty International
• Licensing Executives Society, Australia and New Zealand Inc (LESANZ)