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Minters partner takes Adelaide-based insurance team to Mills Oakley
A partner and his team have left MinterEllison for fellow BigLaw practice Mills Oakley, bolstering the latter’s insurance offering in Adelaide.
Jerome Doraisamy
Partner Grant Mitchell (pictured) has joined Mills Oakley from MinterEllison and has brought special counsel Myles Mayo, senior associate Dillon Olliver, associate Will Hudson, and lawyer Juliana Marcus with him.
Mitchell was a partner at Minters for more than two decades, serving in its Adelaide office, and led its insurance and corporate risk team in South Australia. His team have all also come across from that BigLaw firm.
He brings, Mills Oakley said in a statement, over 30 years of experience, primarily in the areas of professional indemnity and complex public and product liability claims. He and his team act, the firm went on, for insurers, the state of South Australia, corporates, SMEs and NFPs in South Australian and Commonwealth courts in relation to claims against professionals and directors, complex public and product liability claims, construction disputes, representative actions, and historical injury matters.
Mitchell and the team will also, Mills Oakley went on, provide services to the firm’s clients in the Northern Territory.
The news follows the firm’s addition of a disputes and insolvency practitioner to its partnership in December (which brought the firm’s partner ranks to 170 nationwide), as well as its appointment of three partners in October and hiring two partners from Hamilton Locke and KPMG in July.
Speaking about the appointment, Mills Oakley chief executive John Nerurker said the arrival of the team continues the firm’s nationwide strategic growth.
“We are very pleased to welcome Grant to the partnership. Grant’s experience and expertise will significantly boost our ability to service our clients in Adelaide while also continuing to grow our national insurance practice,” he said.
“Mills Oakley continues to recruit practitioners with deep roots in the business community who understand the South Australian market and what is needed to maintain trust and deliver value.”
The news also follows a string of major appointments in the insurance space from numerous BigLaw practices in recent months.
In February alone, Hall & Wilcox took three partners and a team of up to 20 from Holman Webb, Colin Biggers & Paisley appointed a new head of property insurance, and McCabes took a team of 10 from HBA Legal.
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly and HR Leader. He has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. In June 2024, he also assumed the editorship of HR Leader. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of the Minds Count Foundation.
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