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Pippin Barry
Pippin Barry is the Principal Lawyer of Dexterity Law. He trained at a top-tier Melbourne law firm before joining a Magic Circle firm in London, where he advised on complex cross-border transactions. He returned to Australia to build a practice that could bring that calibre of legal work to established businesses without the overhead and institutional distance of a major firm.
Before entering private practice, Pippin worked in-house at the University of Melbourne, one of Australia's leading research universities. That experience gave him a practical understanding of how legal risk looks from the client's side of the table.
Today Pippin advises established businesses, institutions, investors, and high-growth companies on mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements, capital raises, employment law, and commercial contracts. He advises clients across the resources, construction, higher education, and fintech sectors. Most of his clients work with him across multiple matters over many years.
Pippin works directly with clients from the first call to the final signature, and is known for advice that is commercially grounded, direct, and genuinely useful.
Example matters include:
• advising a private investor group on the acquisition of a service business, including due diligence, share sale agreement, and post-completion adjustments
• acting for the founders of a technology company on a capital raise, including convertible note documentation and shareholder agreement restructure
• advising a resources company on their acquisition of a major mineral asset
• acting for a vendor on the sale of an e-commerce business to a US acquirer
• advising a higher education institution on procurement agreements and governance frameworks
• acting for an employer on a complex executive redundancy and associated restraint of trade matters
• advising a construction business on head contracts, subcontractor agreements, and a security of payment claims
• acting for a cleantech company across multiple capital raises and the implementation of an employee share scheme
Pippin holds a law degree from the University of Melbourne and is admitted to practice in Victoria.
You can reach Pippin at pippin.barry@dexteritylaw.com.au or on +61 (03) 9059 8145.