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Van Moulis has more than 20 years’ experience in commercial law matters, divided between complex litigation (including investor class actions) and specialist corporate advice in competition law, Trade Practices and business law, contract disputes and franchising law.
Van mainly acts for SMEs and also includes among his clients some large corporations. He has also advised lobby groups.
A central practice focus is securing compensation for persons wronged in commercial transactions, from unconscionable or unfair commercial conduct to corporate breaches adversely affecting shareholders and customers. Van is also very experienced in resolving or mediating commercial disputes.
Expertise
- Contract disputes
- Competition law
- Trade Practices, corporate and business law
- Compensation cases in commercial law matters
- Mediation
- Franchising law and practice
Career history
- since 2007 Slater & Gordon (lawyer)
- 1994-2002 Holman Webb (non-equity partner)
- 1983-1988 Moore & Bevins, now Middletons (associate)
Professional qualifications & admissions
- 1980 Admitted High Court of Australia
- 1980 Admitted Federal Court of Australia
- 1980 Admitted Supreme Court of New South Wales
- 1979 Bachelor of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1979 Bachelor of Laws, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1996 Master of Laws (Honours) Trade Practices, University of Technology, Sydney
Membership & associations
- Commercial Law Association
- Law Society of New South Wales
Cultural heritage
As one of the first Greek immigrants from the island of Kythera after the First World War, the migration journey of Van Moulis’s maternal grandfather can be traced back a century. Just as poverty and oppression forced his maternal grandfather’s departure from Greece, Van’s paternal grandparents also decided to migrate from Northern Greece.
Van’s parents met at Sydney’s Greek Ball, organised for young single immigrants to meet and find marriage partners. Van’s father joined his new family in Taree in the north coast of NSW, after emigrating from Greece soon after the end of the Second World War, and worked at the family’s cafe and restaurant, The Elite. These days, Van’s family consider their first home Australia, where both his grandparents and father are buried.