Elise Margow

Lawyer, director, mediator, author. 2018, 2019 and 2020 Doyle’s List Leading Victorian mediator. Named in the Age Melbourne Magazine as one of the top 100 most passionate, powerful and provocative personalities of 2012.Legally Speaking specialises in advising clients on the ‘A to Z’ of legal management, services and strategies. Elise has broad legal and business expertise, having worked in the corporate sector for 13 years and in practice at various law firms. Elise is an alumnus of Arnold Bloch Leibler and Telstra and has headed up legal, risk and regulatory teams including the team at Liberty Financial Pty Limited. In addition to providing a wide range of legal advice to her clients and reducing the legal spend of clients substantially, she has contributed on credit and due diligence committees, is a Company Chair and director and has company secretarial experience. Elise was a member of the Australian Finance Conference Legal and Risk Committee from 2009 to 2012, being actively involved in strategically analysing proposed new and amended regulations affecting the finance and banking industry. Elise is an experienced litigator and mediator who, for over 15 years, has focused on alternative dispute resolution techniques to assist clients and disputing parties avoid lengthy and expensive court proceedings. She has successfully assisted both her own clients and disputing parties resolve complex disputes using the combination of her litigation and commercial experience together with her pragmatic approach to the resolution of disputes. As a nationally accredited mediator, Elise specialises in mediations concerning banking and finance, corporate, commercial, industrial relations and major leasing disputes.