Matt Kelleher
Clayton Utz
I have found Matt's advice, and that of his team, to be practical and concise. Matt understands the operational context of a sophisticated client and how to balance legal risk with business outcomes. Matt's advice is well-suited to an Executive audience. Matt is adaptable, responsive to urgent demands and easy to deal with.
– Senior In-House Lawyer
I honestly can't praise you and your team enough for your professionalism, expertise, flexibility, stakeholder engagement and communication, good grace in trying circumstances, and now delivering ahead of schedule. I have worked in HR for more than 25 years and I can honestly say, without hesitation, that you are the best lawyer I have ever worked with.
– Senior Human Resources Executive
Matt has a unique breadth of experience, having advised a wide-range of private and public sector employers for over 15 years. He advises employers around Australia on all aspects of employment law, industrial relations and occupational health and safety.
He is regularly instructed to provide strategic advice on complex employment management issues, enterprise bargaining, workplace investigations, sexual harassment, discrimination, executive remuneration, and workplace restructuring and disputes.
Matt is also widely recognised as one of the leading industrial and employment regulatory lawyers in the country with extensive experience resolving complex workplace disputes before the High Court, Federal Court and Fair Work Commission.
Bulla Dairy Foods: trusted advisor on all aspects of employment issues, workplace disputes, and governance.
State Electricity Commission: advises on the full spectrum of employment, industrial and safety matters and general workplace compliance.
South32 Limited: advises on contentious workplace matters, including general protections and unfair dismissal applications, workplace investigations and workplace compliance.
Tundra Resource Analytics: advises on the management of workplace matters.
Various Commonwealth Departments & Agencies: advises a raft of public sector clients on all aspects of workplace relations law, has comprehensive knowledge of the public sector employment framework, regularly conducts Code of Conduct investigations, and advises on many of the Commonwealth's most significant and sensitive employment matters.
Fair Work Ombudsman: advises and conducts complex workplace regulatory litigation including general protections and underpayment matters.
Large private clients: regularly advises numerous private clients on workplace compliance matters, executive employment arrangements, management of risks associated with terminations, restraints, misuse of confidential information, and regularly presents to Boards on workplace governance and psychosocial hazards in the workplace employment.
Brookfield Multiplex: advised on large-scale industrial litigation arising from significant industrial action, coercion and contempt.
Roads Australia: advises on workplace compliance, industrial and employment matters.