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CURRICULUM VITAE
PETER INNES JOOSTE QC
Rose-Innes Chambers, Perth, WA 2015
1. Address 2 Chimneys
54 Glyde Street
MOSMAN PARK WA 6012
PO Box 976 Claremont WA 6010
Telephone: [H] (08) 9385 4412 [W] (08) 9420 0040
Mobile: 0419 907 020
Email: joosteqc@rose-innes.com.au
pandajooste@space.net.au
2A Current Positions held:
Queen’s Counsel (1997 - ) & Legal Practice Board Western Australia
Deputy Chancellor, Chancellor Emeritus, Anglican Diocese of Perth (2012- )
[http://www.perth.anglican.org/]
Lawyer Monthly Leading Lawyer 100 [See Special Edition -January 2011]
Lawyer Monthly Winner Australasia Restructuring Lawyer [2011 & 2012]
2B Past Positions held:
Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Perth (2004- 2012)
Head of Wickham Chambers (Barristers Perth WA) (2000-2004)
Chairman of Eastland Medical Systems Ltd (2006- 2012) now Suda Ltd
[http://www.sudaltd.com.au/]
Chairman (New reconstructed) WA Finance Brokers Supervisory Board (2000-2005)
Takeovers Panel 1991 – 1998
[http://www.takeovers.gov.au]
General Counsel & Company Secretary Equatorial Mining Limited (1995-1998)
Alternate Director - Great Southern Mines NL ACN 009 266 737 (until 1996)
President Australia Southern Africa Business Council Inc (WA)
Chairman International Business Council of WA
WA Chamber of Commerce Economics & Taxation Committee & Trade and Commerce
Council
Lecturer - Australian Institute of Company Directors
Lead Lecturer (WA) Securities Institute of Australia - Mergers & Acquisitions Course (65)
Various Law Society and Law Council Committees (2003 Convenor Commercial Law
Committee)
Member Advisory Board Francis Burt Law Centre
Member Archbishop’s Anglicare Committee
3. Education
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(a) St John’s College, Johannesburg
Head of School
(b) Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park England - Commonwealth Resident Student. [Tutor- Henry
Brooke –later Lord Justice Sir Henry Brooke]
(c) Christ's College, Cambridge England; Economics Tripos Part 1.
(d) Rhodes University Grahamstown – BA (Economics/Law) LLB (distinctions in Jurisprudence and
Criminal Procedure) – Sub-Warden College House.
(e) Rotary Foundation - Group Study Scholar to USA (Texas & New Mexico).
http://www.stjohnscollege.co.za/
http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/aboutus
http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.ru.ac.za/
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/B1.html
Cite as: [2006] EWCA Civ B1
4. Legal Practice
(a) Associate; with Linklaters & Paines,London, England in Companies Department (John
Mayo group - Company Law, Stock Exchange Listings, Take-overs & Mergers & Schemes
of Arrangement) http://www.linklaters.com/
(b) Partner Hayman, Godfrey & Sanderson (Johannesburg) (Companies Department)
(Company Law, Stock Exchange Listings, Take-overs & Mergers & Schemes of
Arrangement). (Now Bowman Gilfillan Inc http://www.bowman.co.za/).
(c) Partner Fairbridge Arderne & Lawton, Cape Town (Company and Commercial Law,
Take-overs & Mergers & Schemes of Arrangement) http://www.fairbridges.co.za/
(d) Partner & Corporate Counsel Parker & Parker (now Freehills, & Herbert Smith Freehills
http://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com).
(e) To date Barrister - currently practising as Queen's Counsel, Rose-Innes Chambers, Perth
WA
5. Professional Court Admissions
As Attorney - Phillip Friedland Memorial Prize-winner (RSA)
As Notary Public - Prizewinner (RSA)
As Barrister & Solicitor Western Australia & High Court of Australia
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6A. The majority of clients acted for have been listed entities1
6B. I have acted in a number of take-overs and other change of control matters2
6C. I have also acted and advised in numerous capital market reconstructions and schemes of
arrangement3
, as well as a number of court matters4
7. Personal
Citizenship: Australian
Married: Anne Denise Bircher, two sons, James and Hamish
Interests: History, Libraries, photography and rugby
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IncludingAustralian City Properties Limited; AustralasianPlantations Limited; Auridiam Consolidated NL; Bankwest; Bristile
Ltd;Equatorial Mining Limited; Floraco Limited; Gawler Resources Ltd; General Gold Resources NL; Geraldton
Fishermen's Cooperative Ltd; Herald Resources Ltd; Metall Mining Australia; Minproc Engineers Limited; Scientific
Services Limited; Ticor Limited; Westralian Lobster Fisheries Limited; Whim Creek Consolidated NL; Whittakers
Limited & Woodside Petroleum Limited
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IncludingActionHoldings Ltdoffer by Foodland; BristileLtd – offers for Metro Industries & G.U.D.; Everest Gold Limited;
IntegratedHealthCare Limited; HeraldResources Ltd; Kalgoorlie Mines Limited; Offer for United Media Limited "The
Daily News"; W.A. Trustees Limited - offer by Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd
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Including Collins Motor Corporation Limited; Equatorial Mining Limited; Sundance Resources Ltd; Valiant Consolidated
Limited; Aldridge Uranium Limited; Capital Investment Corp. Limited; Co-operativeBulk Handling Limited; Cove Mining
NL; DalrympleResources NL; FoundationHealthcare Limitedmerger[2002] FCA 742; Gawler Resources Ltd; Gold Mines
of Sardinia Limited"Top Hat"Scheme; Great Southern Mines NL; Marengo Mining Ltd; Phosphate Resources Limited;
Stockbridge/Excalibur; Swan Resources Limited/Rhodes Mining N.L.; United Minerals Corp NL; Vulcan Resources Ltd;
Woodside Petroleum Limited
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ASC v Mount Burgess (1995) 13ACLC 271; PharaohMetals LibNo. 960688; Biala v Mallina Holdings WAG6/1997; Diamond
Rose NL 166 ALR 373; Guerinoni (1999) 34ACSR 469 & [2000]WASCA 170; Foundation Healthcare Limited (merger)
[2002]FCA 742; GFSManagement s.232,(2003)21 ACLC 506; OnslowSalt P/L [2003] FCA 429; Wave Capital Limited
(2003) 21 ACLC 1995
Phylogica Ltd[2004]FCA 1768; Leawell Pty Ltd (as trustee) v Watershed Premium Wines Ltd [2009] FCA 26; Grand
Enterprises P/L v Aurium Resources Ltd [2009] FCA 513
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8. I have also published regularly in Australia,5
and prior to that in South Africa, and have
designed and delivered comprehensive Corporate Law Master-Classes and delivered papers
or chaired at continuing professional development seminars6
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(1)Re Titan Hills Australia Ltd & Ors (1992)10ACLC 131(C & SPanel) per P Jooste (President); (2)C & SLJ September
1993 Volume11 No.5p.292 "Subscription - a case for Prospectus Law Reform?"; C & SLJ June 1994 Volume 12 No.4
p.267 "Stockbridge Revisited- a case for the argument that s.625ofthe Corporations Lawshouldbe amended."; Brief (Law
Society of WA) Volume 22 No.9 October 1995 - "Corporate Law Reform MK II - A Simplified Revolution?"; also
publishedby request in CCH - "Australian Corporate News", Issue 23 November 21 1995.; C & SLJ September 1996
Volume 14 No.6p.366 "Corporations Law Section 193(1)(b): Consolidation & Division of Share Capital" ; Brief (Law
Society ofWA) Volume 23 No.7 August 1996 "CorporateLawReform- a further Takeovers anomaly"; also published by
request in CCH"Australian Corporate News", Issue 21October 22 1996.; Brief(Law Society of WA) Volume 16 No.8
September 1999: "Corporate Conjunctions: A Proposal to Restore the National Scheme".; Corporate Law Workshop – BLS
of the Law Council ofAustralia July 2000. "Commonwealthat the Crossroads:A cri de coeur or a Bonanza?".; C & SLJ
August 2003 Volume 21No.6 p.418 "Forensic Efficiencies in Members' Schemes of Arrangement: The Power of One".;
LexisNexis: Australian Corporation Law Principles & Practice Chapters 6.1 & 6.2 (2007-2010).; C & SLJ February
2011 Volume 29 No.1 p.41 "Surrender of Shares: Does Australia now have 'Treasury Shares' ?".
(A) Mergers & Acquisitions and Shareholders - I.H. MacGregor Juta& Co Ltd 1979 ISBN 0 702109908 [Book basedon
above author's thesis submittedin 1977forPhD, Facultyof Commerce Univ. of Wits Jhb RSA] p.42 "Special Resolution
Method". (PJ) [Based on BML Volume 3 No.5 March 1974 p.136 (see below)].
And the following in BML (Businessman's Law) (Juta & Co South Africa):-
(B) Volume 3 No.5 March 1974 p.136 - "Avoidance of Stamp Duty" (Merger - Special Resolution Method).
(C) Volume 3 No.7 June 1974 p. 200 - "Stamp Duty Snakes & Ladders".
(D) Volume 11 No.3 December 1981 p.77 - "Takeovers & Mergers - An attempt to save stamp duty may backfire".
(E) Volume 12 No.2 November 1982 p. 53 - "Takeovers & Mergers - Stamp Duty pitfalls revisited".
(F) Volume 12 No.8 August 1983 - "No Par Value Shares - a means for substantial savings of stamp duty".
(G) Volume 13 No.4 February 1984 - "Takeovers & Mergers - stamp duty nightmares
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1989 – 2013Company LawUpdate-Disclosure ofInformation to Shareholders; Annual Stamp Duties; IIR Directors Duties;
Planninga Corporate Take-over; The new Corporations Law; Raising Equity Finance; Floating a Resources Company;
Take-overs Panel – LawAsia; Prospectus Law; ASC Legal Workshop; Related Parties; Practical Prospectus Issues;
Corporate Takeovers & Reconstructions; Continuous disclosure/Transaction Prospectuses; Prospectus Issues Workshop;
Corporate Simplifications; Corporate LawWorkshop – Commonwealth Corporations Law Crisis; Corporations Act 2001
(Cth); Due Diligence (Chairman); Schemes of Arrangement (Chairman); Corporate Law Master-classes (Blakiston &
Crabb & Bowman Gilfillan Inc); Personal Property Securities (Legalwise-Chairman); Corporate Law Update (Legalwise)