
July 23, 2025
Brendan
Tynan-Davey
General Counsel & Company Secretary
New South Wales
Brand statement
Career Journey
Career Story
I come from a commercial and insurance litigation background, worked in house for real estate, waste & recycling, and trucking companies, before venturing into financial services, in particular Superannuation, which included but was not limited to: investments, insurance, trustee law in addition to providing company secretarial and governance services. I have recently started up my own firm to offer consulting to business to provide no nonsense commercial legal and governance solutions to their problems.
Career Highlight
Career Goal
Experience
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" }, { "role": "Governance Consultant", "company": "Rest", "endYear": "2025", "endMonth": "3", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2024", "startMonth": "11", "currentRole": false, "description": "Advising and drafting policies and procedures, implementing and operationalising structural changes to the business, reviewing and determining conflicts, reviewing and determining gifts and benefits, drafting and implementing changes to Delegations of Authority framework and associated registers and documents, drafting and implementing changes to Conflicts management framework policy plus associated procedures and template documentation, attending to reviews and updates to gifts and benefits policy, attending to minute taking for Committees, advising upon structural changes to Committees and development of management committees, assistance with FAR implementation, drafting precedent governance documents for use by the team and wider business, provide advice on ways of working and regulatory changes" }, { "role": "Head of Legal & Governance", "company": "NGS Super", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2023", "startMonth": " 7", "currentRole": false, "description": "Head of Legal & Governance Team of 5 direct reports, and Company Secretary to oversee all legal work in Investments, Insurance, Product, Claims, Compliance, Regulations, Litigation, Contracts, Superannuation, Regulator engagement (APRA, ASIC, ATO & others), Defined Benefit Schemes, Financial Planning, Consumer law, WHS, Workers Compensation, Administrative and Government law, Complaints, Trustee Law, General advice, Privacy law, Technology and data law, HR and Employment law, Commercial law, Industry specific legal compliance, Training, Media releases and advertising, Trademarks, Policy and Procedure development, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Compliance with Australian and International standards including annual and other regular auditing. Work in a team to implement key projects. Interact regularly with different business units and regulators. Mentoring and leadership of team members. Allocation of legal work and fostering of internal and external key relationships. Regularly brief board and executive on key legal matters. Attend to minutes of Board and Committees.\nAdept at leading teams and building engagement. \nRegular interaction with and advisor to Executive Team, Board and Board Committees, in particular Risk, Audit & Compliance Committee, HR & Governance Committee and Investment Committee." }, { "role": "Acting Head of Legal & Governance", "company": "NGS Super", "endYear": "2023", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2022", "startMonth": " 7", "currentRole": false, "description": "Acting Role as Head of Legal, Compliance and Governance plus assisting in Risk function. \n\nHead of Legal Team to oversee all legal work in Investments, Insurance, Product, Claims, Compliance, Regulations, Litigation, Contracts, Superannuation, Regulator engagement (APRA, ASIC, ATO, OAIC and others), Defined Benefit Schemes, Financial Planning, Consumer law, WHS, Workers Compensation, Administrative and Government law, Complaints, Trustee Law, General advice, Privacy law, Technology and data law, HR and Employment law, Commercial law, Industry specific law compliance, Training, Media releases and advertising, Trademarks, Policy and Procedure development, Company secretarial, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Compliance with Australian and International standards including annual and other regular auditing. 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Work in a team to implement key projects. Interact regularly with different business units and regulators.\n\nAdept at leading teams and building engagement. \nRegular interaction with and advisor to Executive Team, Board and Board Committees, in particular Risk, Audit & Compliance Committee, HR & Governance Committee and Investment Committee." }, { "role": "Legal Counsel", "company": "EISS Super", "endYear": "2021", "endMonth": "10", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2019", "startMonth": "8", "currentRole": false, "description": "Legal Counsel for Australia for Claims, Insurance, Compliance, Regulations, Litigation, Contracts, Superannuation, Investments, Regulator engagement (APRA, ASIC & ATO), Defined Benefit Schemes, Financial Planning, Consumer law, WHS, Workers Compensation, Administrative and Government law, Debt recovery, Complaints, Trustee Law, General advice, Privacy law, Technology and data law, HR and Employment law, Commercial law, Industry specific law compliance, Training, Media releases and advertising, Trademarks, Policy and Procedure development, Company secretarial, Business development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Compliance with Australian and International standards including annual auditing. Work in a team to implement key projects. Interact regularly with different business units and regulators.\n\nAdept at leading teams and building engagement. \nRegular interaction with and advisor to Executive Team, Board and Board Committees, in particular Risk Committee, Audit Committee and Investment Committee." }, { "role": "Legal Counsel, Risk & Compliance Manager", "company": "United Resource Management", "endYear": "2019", "endMonth": "8", "location": "Chatswood", "startYear": "2017", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Head Legal Counsel for Australia for claims, compliance, regulations, litigation, contracts, consumer law, environment, WHS, worker’s compensation, administrative and government law, debt recovery, complaints, COR law and regulations, employment, General advice, privacy law, technology and data law, HR and employment law, commercial law, industry specific law compliance, training, media releases, policy and procedure development, business development and tendering, Mergers & Acquisitions, compliance with Australian and International standards including annual auditing. Head and implement key compliance, environment and WHS projects. Assist in UK litigation matters." }, { "role": "Commercial Lawyer", "company": "CBRE", "endYear": "2017", "endMonth": "1", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2016", "startMonth": "5", "currentRole": false, "description": "Commercial Lawyer for CBRE Pacific Region of Australia & New Zealand\nAgency Law\nCommercial Law\nLitigation\nDebt Recovery\nGeneral Advice\nDedicated services to business lines of Agribusiness, Hotels, Property Management, Commercial Leasing, Residential sales, tenders, compliance and office fit outs." }, { "role": "Lawyer", "company": "Dial A Dump Industries", "endYear": "2016", "endMonth": "4", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2015", "startMonth": "8", "currentRole": false, "description": "Lawyer practising in Litigation, Employment Law, Immigration Law, Public Liability, Professional Indemnity, Contract Law, Environmental Law, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Company Law, Business Law, property law, development and development applications, debt recovery, conveyancing." }, { "role": "Lawyer", "company": "Kennedys", "endYear": "2015", "endMonth": "8", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2009", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "Lawyer practising in Litigation, Professional Indemnity, Public Liability, Product Liability, Commercial Law, Defamation, Sports Law, claims, personal injury, professional indemnity, product liability, banking and financial law, privacy, & social media." } ]
Career & Personal Growth
My career goal is...
I've recently started up my own business to provide legal services, consulting services and fractional services to assist businesses with commercial solutions to their complex problems. I thrive in both a team environment or working solo. I aim to add value and strive to be a trusted business advisor, negotiator, mediator and problem solver.
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Contact Information
Phone
0407418343
Email
brendan@tynandavey.com.au
LinkedIn Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-tynan-davey-18a09624?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BLQUt%2BnX8TOaoxAvw81MpGQ%3D%3D
Work Preference
Prefered Working Location
Sydney
Work Preference
WIP
Expertise & Skills
Primary Expertise
Legal
Secondary Expertise
Board
Seniority Level
15 - 20 years
Key Skill
Accountability,Adaptability,Analysis,Boards,Conflict resolution,Creativity,Crisis managing,Influencing,Integrity,Leadership,Mediating,Negotiating,Patience,Positivity,Problem solving,Public speaking,Reliability,Researching,Simplifying,Written communication
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