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Born in 1960, Timothy Bednall began his legal career in Adelaide, South Australia, during the early 1980s. His professional development combined private legal practice with senior in-house and law-firm leadership roles, eventually taking him from South Australia to Sydney and to international responsibilities in London and the broader Europe and Middle East region.
Timothy Bednall holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB (Hons)). His legal education provided the foundation for a career in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance.
Timothy Bednall began his legal career with Finlaysons in Adelaide in the early 1980s and became a partner of the firm. He later served as General Counsel of Southcorp Limited from 2000 to 2001; Southcorp subsequently became the core of Treasury Wine Estates. In 2004 he joined Mallesons Stephen Jaques after serving as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Allens Arthur Robinson. He became a prominent corporate and M&A adviser at Mallesons and later King & Wood Mallesons, advising major companies, public-sector clients and government bodies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory matters, capital markets, governance and regulatory issues, including transactions involving companies such as BG Group, Brambles, Telstra, ASX, Stockland and Westpac. He chaired the Australian partnership of King & Wood Mallesons from January 2010 to December 2012, during the combination of King & Wood and Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He was Managing Partner of M&A and Tax for KWM Australia from 2013 to 2014 and Managing Partner of KWM Europe and the Middle East from 2016 to 2017. He subsequently returned to Australia and continued as a partner in the firm's Sydney office, where he has led its corporate governance practice and contributed to its compliance and governance-risk advisory work. Alongside his legal practice, he has held non-executive directorships and governance roles in the energy, investment and cultural sectors.
Timothy Bednall has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.
He chaired the Australian partnership of King & Wood Mallesons during the combination of King & Wood and Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
He has been recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia since 2008 in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law, regulatory practice and related corporate fields.
Timothy Bednall has represented the Law Council of Australia on the ASX Corporate Governance Council. He is also associated with the National Portrait Gallery of Australia Foundation through board service.
Timothy Bednall has been described in professional profiles as sought after for counsel on complicated and time-sensitive transactions and as a respected corporate lawyer and law-firm manager.
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Chambers Global described Timothy Bednall as “unshakable under pressure” and sought after for counsel on complicated and time-sensitive transactions.
Bednall's professional career has connected private legal practice, corporate in-house counsel work, international law-firm management and non-executive governance. His corporate and board responsibilities have particularly included the legal, governance and energy sectors.
