Background
Keith Nathan's documented life centers on Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. There he studied at the University of Melbourne, was admitted to the bar in Victoria, and worked as a partner of Phillips Fox.
Keith Nathan's documented life centers on Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. There he studied at the University of Melbourne, was admitted to the bar in Victoria, and worked as a partner of Phillips Fox.
Nathan studied at the University of Melbourne, earning a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master of Business Administration. Together these degrees combined commercial training with legal education.
The University of Melbourne was established in 1853 and is the oldest university in Victoria and the second-oldest in Australia. Its faculty concerned with economics and commerce was established in 1924, and the Bachelor of Commerce began teaching on 2 March 1925. The faculty was later renamed the Faculty of Business and Economics.
The MBA was introduced at the university in 1963 and is now taught by the Melbourne Business School.
Nathan's legal career in Melbourne included admission to the bar in Victoria in 1978 and work as a partner of Phillips Fox. The firm traced its origins to 1864, when it was founded as P.D. Phillips, and it grew into one of the largest law firms in Australasia.
In 2006 the firm entered an exclusive alliance with the global firm DLA Piper and adopted the name DLA Phillips Fox. The alliance reflected the growing integration of Australian and New Zealand business into the world economy. The DLA Phillips Fox name was closed in 2011 when DLA Piper opened for business in Australia and absorbed the firm.