Gina Bozinovski

Mergers & Acquisitions | Commercial Contracts & Corporate Law | 20+ Years Experience

Gina is a commercial and M&A lawyer with more than 20 years advising founders, boards and executives across the full life of a business. Her career spans private practice at leading firms and senior in-house roles as General Counsel and CEO of founder-led businesses, including a commercial-scale green hydrogen project and a sustainable aviation fuel platform. She has also been General Counsel to WaterNSW and managed external legal services for the Department of Defence.

On the deal side, her experience runs from SME business sales and acquisitions through to large, complex transactions including: the $375M buy-side Kidman & Co acquisition (ASX-regulated, cross-border), an $83M reverse takeover onto the London Stock Exchange, and national roll-ups for ASX-listed companies. She acts on both buy-side and sell-side across mining, financial services, agribusiness, energy, telecommunications and professional services, and is just as at home on capital raisings, from ASX listings and IPOs to convertible notes and Series B rounds.

On the commercial side, having sat in the CEO and GC chair herself, Gina thinks like a CFO as much as a lawyer. She covers the contracts, employment, structuring, capital raisings and governance that protect business value, and brings real depth in commercial disputes and litigation, the claims and contract fights that surface when conditions get tough. She advises the way she would want to be advised: direct, practical, and focused on the outcome that matters.

Gina holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Canberra. She is admitted to practice in NSW.

Outside the office, Gina skis and is learning French, with enthusiasm running comfortably ahead of fluency. She is just as happy on a steep slope or a stubborn verb as she is steering a client through a tough deal.

Shan Lai

Small Business Sales & Acquisitions | Cross-Border M&A (China) | Commercial Law | 28+ Years Experience

Shan Lai is a commercial and M&A lawyer with 28 years of experience across China and Australia. She spent 15 years in Beijing with major international law firms, including 6 years as a Corporate and M&A Partner at Bird & Bird, one of the world’s leading international firms. In Beijing she advised Chinese state-owned enterprises on global acquisitions across more than 20 countries, and advised multinational companies, including Boeing, Macquarie Group and McGraw-Hill, on entering and operating in the Chinese market. Her work spanned mining and resources, technology and private equity, aviation, satellite technology, media, infrastructure and renewable energy, including public takeovers of listed companies.

Shan is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, and she works directly in the language and the culture of her clients, in Mandarin or Cantonese, without an interpreter in between. For Chinese businesses that means being understood on the first instance, on the commercial detail and the cultural context together, by a lawyer who has spent most of her career inside the relationship between China and Australia.

This is the work she does every day at Aspect Legal. She acts for Chinese businesses launching into the Australian market or buying a business here, for Chinese owners already operating in Australia, for Australian businesses that source from China, and for Australian businesses selling into the Chinese market. She advises on market entry and operations, joint ventures, regulatory approvals, supply and distribution arrangements, and payment mechanism. She leads Aspect’s commercial law work with Chinese clients, and our SME business sales and acquisitions team.
Her deal experience runs at every level, from small business sales through to cross-border transactions worth hundreds of millions, on both sides of the table. Whatever the size of the matter, the rigour is the same.

Alongside the deal work, Shan handles the everyday commercial foundations a growing business needs: contracts, shareholder and partnership agreements, supply and distribution arrangements, franchise agreements and regulatory compliance. Her approach to negotiation is simple. Understand what every party actually wants, then work the deal from there.

Shan holds a BA, an LLB and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. She is also completing a Master of Psychology, which she brings to the negotiating table to read what every party needs and find the path to agreement.

赖珊华律师是一位商业与并购律师,在中国和澳大利亚拥有28年执业经验。她在北京的国际知名律师事务所工作了15年,其中6年担任全球顶尖律所欧华律师事务所(Bird & Bird)的公司与并购合伙人。在北京期间,她为中国国有企业在20多个国家的全球并购项目提供法律意见,并为波音公司、麦格理集团和麦格劳希尔等跨国公司进入及运营中国市场提供法律支持。她的执业领域涵盖矿业与资源、科技与私募股权、航空、卫星技术、传媒、基建和可再生能源,包括上市公司的公开收购项目。

赖律师精通普通话和粤语,能够直接以客户的语言和文化背景沟通,无需借助传译。对中国企业客户而言,这意味着从一开始就能被真正理解,包括商业细节和文化背景,而与之沟通的律师大半个职业生涯都深耕于中澳两国的商业往来之中。

这正是她在Aspect Legal每天从事的工作。她的客户包括:计划进入澳大利亚市场或在澳收购企业的中国企业、已在澳大利亚经营的华人业主、从中国采购的澳大利亚企业,以及向中国市场销售的澳大利亚企业。她的业务范围包括市场准入与运营、合资企业、监管审批、供应与分销安排以及付款机制。她负责统筹Aspect与中国客户相关的商业法律业务,并领导公司中小企业买卖业务团队。
她的交易经验涵盖各个层级,从小型企业买卖到价值数亿元的跨境交易,买卖双方的角色她都担任过。无论项目规模大小,她始终坚持同样严谨的专业标准。

除交易工作外,赖律师还处理成长型企业所需的日常商业法律事务:合同、股东与合伙协议、供应与分销安排、特许经营协议以及合规事宜。她的谈判理念很简单:先了解各方真正的诉求,再从这个基础上推进交易。

赖律师持有悉尼大学文学学士、法学学士及法学硕士学位,目前正在攻读心理学硕士学位,并将这一专业背景运用到谈判桌上,帮助她准确把握各方需求,找到达成协议的路径。

Belinda Barnes

Technology & Commercial Contracts | Cyber, Data & Privacy | M&A & Corporate (Cross-border) | Corporate Governance | 18+ Years Experience

Belinda is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 18 years across top-tier private
practice and senior in-house roles. She trained at Baker McKenzie, where she spent 15 years
advising boards, institutions and multinationals on M&A, technology and complex commercial
arrangements. She combines the technical rigour of a top-tier transactional lawyer with the
commercial judgment of someone who has worked inside the business, making real decisions
under real pressure. What sets Belinda apart is her ability to operate confidently in the grey zones: the areas where legal questions don’t have neat answers and commercial judgment really
matters.

On the deal side, her experience covers buy-side and sell-side M&A, demergers and cross-border
transactions, often coordinating deal teams across multiple Asia-Pacific jurisdictions. At Baker
McKenzie she acted for HT&E on the A$246.5M acquisition of Australian Radio Network, the
demerger of NZME, the sale of its regional media business to News Corp and the sale of its outdoor advertising business to Quadrant Private Equity, and for Sabre on the US$25M sale of Zuji to Webjet across Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. She has also worked the technology side of major transactions, including large-scale technology contract transfers in significant corporate demergers.

On the commercial side, Belinda has particular depth in technology and commercial contracts
and in cyber, data and privacy, working across energy, government and not-for-profit clients. Her
team was recognised as Commercial Team of the Year in a previous role (Australian Law Awards,
2024). Her in-house years include Senior Legal Counsel in the Investments team at one of
Australia’s largest super funds, General Counsel and Company Secretary at a listed financial
services firm, and non-executive director of a not-for-profit experience that means she
understands what good legal advice looks like from the inside. She has also worked as virtual in
house counsel and in general counsel partnerships across a range of growing businesses, and is
just as comfortable being that trusted first call as she is leading a major transaction. At Aspect she
is helping build our AI-powered contract review and playbook systems, putting her contract and
data experience to work on how legal advice gets delivered, as well as what it says.

Belinda holds a combined Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Media (Writing) (Hons) from Macquarie University. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Outside the office, Belinda has recently rediscovered her love of horseriding. She also enjoys time
at the beach, camping and surfing – even better when she gets to do it all with her kids