Tobias is identified as an American lawyer whose professional career has been based principally in Australia. His documented professional address has been in Sydney, New South Wales, where he has worked with major Australian legal practices.
Tobias was admitted to the bar in Australia in 1970, with admission recorded in New South Wales. His professional qualification is documented through his admission to practice rather than through a named university degree.
Tobias was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1970 and subsequently developed a career in Australian corporate and commercial law. He worked as a partner of Phillips Fox in Sydney. During the development and implementation of Australia's financial-services reforms, he headed Phillips Fox's specialist Financial Services Reform Bill team and contributed public commentary on the regulatory implications for lenders, insurers, brokers, and other financial-services businesses. His practice also included mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, financial services regulation, banking, insurance and reinsurance, compliance and governance, equity capital markets, and real-estate investment trusts. After Phillips Fox's alliance with DLA Piper, he was identified as a DLA Phillips Fox lawyer working on financial-services and cross-border M&A matters. By 2013 he was acting as a consultant with DLA Piper Australia, including advising Mawarid Mining LLC in relation to its market bid for UCL Resources Limited.
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In public professional commentary, Tobias described Australia's proposed financial-services reforms as a means of reducing uncertainty for market participants and said that the reforms would require affected businesses to educate themselves and obtain the necessary licences. He also commented on the likely effect of Australian foreign-investment decisions on cross-border financial-services mergers and acquisitions.
