Lesa Bransgrove, Partner

Lesa Bransgrove holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from the University of London. Lesa was admitted as a solicitor of the Queensland Supreme Court in 1996 and the UK Supreme Court in 2002 and as a barrister of the NSW Bar Association in 2009. After working at Minter Ellison Lawyers in Brisbane, Lesa spent the next ten years abroad, working at Allen & Overy and White & Case Lawyers. Following completion of her Master of Laws in international finance in 1998, Lesa has practiced exclusively in the field of finance law and finance litigation. Lesa worked on the trading floor of Morgan Stanley in London and completed the UK Securities and Investment Institute exams in Investments.

Following her return to Australia, Lesa worked at Macquarie Bank in Sydney before moving to the bar in 2009 to act as counsel in various class action litigation involving  a range of financial products and banks. Lesa’s crossover of skills in both banking and law meant that she was uniquely placed to apply her knowledge of the workings of financial products from her structuring desk days to advise on complex litigation involving this asset class at the bar. Lesa has written articles for the Australian Law Journal and the NSW Law Society Journal.

Lesa joined Bransgroves in 2011 as partner and is now responsible for litigation involving all types of financial products and all entities involved in the offering and distribution of financial products to the market. Lesa's extensive knowledge of structured products, securitisations and derivatives from her banking and finance days makes her a versatile lawyer at ease with banking concepts. Each month, Lesa reviews all case law handed down in the NSW and federal jurisdictions, and writes case notes on the most significant of them, which are published on this website and, where the decision is significant, in the Australian Law Journal and the NSW Law Society Journal.