Kristen Smith

Litigation Finance

Firm or Organisation
IMF Bentham

Present Position
Investment Manager

Type of Practitioner
Other

Nationality
australian, canadian

Country of Residence
Australia

Jurisdiction
Australia

Legal System
Common Law

Practice Areas
Administrative Law, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Competition, Construction, Engineering, Corporate Law, Energy, Natural Resources, Environment, Family Law, Finance, Banking, Information, CommunicationTechnologies, Infrastructure, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Mediation, Oil, Gas, Mining, Public international Law, Taxation, Trade, Industry, Other

Experience
Kristen is an Investment Manager in the Melbourne office of IMF Bentham with responsibility for due diligence on prospective investments and management of funded cases. Prior to joining IMF in November 2015, she worked in the Commercial and Project Litigation team of leading plaintiff law firm, Slater and Gordon, with a practice focused on class actions, corporations law matters, and financial services disputes. Kristen has extensive litigation experience and bring key skills to the project management aspects of complex litigation. In private practice, she advised on numerous successful class actions and large scale out-of-court settlement schemes with major Australian banks. Prior to joining Slater and Gordon, she worked at Dundas & Wilson (now CMS) in Scotland and as an Associate to the Supreme Court of Victoria’s Associate Justice Efthim. In 2004 she was awarded the Victoria Law Foundation Chief Justice’s Medal for Excellence and Community Service.

Bar Admission
2008. Admitted to practice as an Australian Lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria and as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Federal Court of Australia and High Court of Australia.

Education
Bachelor of Laws (Honours), University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne.

Publications
Not available

Teaching
Not available

Other Information
Kristen is Secretary and a Director of Liquid Architecture Sound Inc. (https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/) and a Director of the Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio Limited (https://mess.foundation/), two not-for-profit organisations devoted to artists working in the medium of sound and which are registered on the Australian Government’s Register of Cultural Organisations.

CV
Not available

Email
[email protected]