Our People
Michael Kerr - Director
Michael Kerr BA (Monash), LL.B (Bond), LL.M (Sydney) is a director and founder of CR Global.
He has advised clients in a diverse range of sectors including, among others: Kmart Australia, Target Australia, Westpac, Rio Tinto Group, Rio Tinto Alcan, Cliffs Natural Resources, BMO Financial Group, Bombardier, Natural Resources Canada and the Department of Justice (Canada).
Michael has considerable experience in the following areas:
He has advised clients in a diverse range of sectors including, among others: Kmart Australia, Target Australia, Westpac, Rio Tinto Group, Rio Tinto Alcan, Cliffs Natural Resources, BMO Financial Group, Bombardier, Natural Resources Canada and the Department of Justice (Canada).
Michael has considerable experience in the following areas:
- Program design and implementation
- Drafting of company codes of conduct, policies and standards
- Gap analysis and benchmarking
- Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
Nicole Rose - Integrity and Compliance Counsel
Nicole’s specialises in Financial crime, Anti-bribery, Anti- corruption, Compliance and Employment law issues. Having spent 14 years working internationally, she now focuses her practice mainly on:
Nicole’s pragmatic, commercial approach has enabled her to build up a successful international practice. She works closely with all sizes of organisations to understand where they are culturally, financially and commercially so that she can help them to implement business led compliance solutions.
“The most important part of developing a compliance program is not highlighting where a company needs to go, but appreciating the environment in which they are currently working.” Nicole’s aim is to provide cost effective, sensible solutions to companies to assist them to meet their legal requirements themselves without having to pay excessive legal fees.
Nicole qualified as a Solicitor in the UK in 2000 at CMS Cameron McKenna. She spent 5 years in private practice building a practice of high net worth clients and then moved in-house to Aon Limited for 5 years. As an in-house Lawyer, Nicole worked closely with senior business leaders in the UK and US to understand their commercial and legal requirements. She headed up global high profile cases and projects in the UK, US, Ireland, Isle of Man, Guernsey, Bermuda and Asia, mainly focusing on financial crime, team moves and revenue protection.
In early 2010, Nicole moved to Australia. Her clients in Australia include Rio Tinto and TRUenergy. She also provides legal services to IT companies in the US and various accountancy firms and legal practices in the UK. Nicole has also written extensively for a leading legal publication.
- Advising on and implementing in-house compliance programs
- Training on anti-bribery, anti-corruption and employee workplace issues
- Advising companies on financial crime prevention and international work place discrimination
- Drafting policies and handbooks for global organisations.
Nicole’s pragmatic, commercial approach has enabled her to build up a successful international practice. She works closely with all sizes of organisations to understand where they are culturally, financially and commercially so that she can help them to implement business led compliance solutions.
“The most important part of developing a compliance program is not highlighting where a company needs to go, but appreciating the environment in which they are currently working.” Nicole’s aim is to provide cost effective, sensible solutions to companies to assist them to meet their legal requirements themselves without having to pay excessive legal fees.
Nicole qualified as a Solicitor in the UK in 2000 at CMS Cameron McKenna. She spent 5 years in private practice building a practice of high net worth clients and then moved in-house to Aon Limited for 5 years. As an in-house Lawyer, Nicole worked closely with senior business leaders in the UK and US to understand their commercial and legal requirements. She headed up global high profile cases and projects in the UK, US, Ireland, Isle of Man, Guernsey, Bermuda and Asia, mainly focusing on financial crime, team moves and revenue protection.
In early 2010, Nicole moved to Australia. Her clients in Australia include Rio Tinto and TRUenergy. She also provides legal services to IT companies in the US and various accountancy firms and legal practices in the UK. Nicole has also written extensively for a leading legal publication.
Jason MacLean - Associate
Jason Maclean BA (St. Francis Xavier), MA & PhD (ABD) (University of Toronto), BCL/LLB (McGill).
Jason is an assistant professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Jason’s teaching, research, and consulting activities focus on:
Prior to becoming one of the founding faculty members of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Jason practiced corporate and commercial litigation and human rights law with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto and Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York City and Paris.
After graduating from law school, Jason clerked for Madame Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jason is an assistant professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Jason’s teaching, research, and consulting activities focus on:
- International environmental law
- Sustainable development
- Human rights
- CSR
- Anti-corruption
Prior to becoming one of the founding faculty members of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Jason practiced corporate and commercial litigation and human rights law with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto and Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York City and Paris.
After graduating from law school, Jason clerked for Madame Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada.