Gilbert + Tobin

In 1988, Gilbert + Tobin was nothing more than two lawyers who had a simple mission – to build the leading Australian corporate law firm. We still have the coin that Danny Gilbert and Tony Tobin flipped to see whose name would come first. Today Gilbert + Tobin is over 500 people with offices in three cities working on some of the world’s biggest, most high profile and most complex transactions.

We know that to continue to achieve our mission we need to support the greatest companies at all stages of the corporate life cycle. How do we know this? Because helping Australia’s best start-ups grow is part of what made us who we are today. And we know it will be a big part of who we are tomorrow.

Our strategy is simple – we invest in great ideas and follow entrepreneurs through to wherever their journey leads. Our lawyers have lived our start- up journey, and have worked in the US, Asia and Australia with start-ups and venture capital funds on the full range of transactions affecting start-ups –from set up to funding rounds to exit.