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Julie McStay

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Thomson Geer
  • Recognized Since:
    2012
  • Recognized in:
    Health and Aged Care Law
    Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law
  • Lawyer Page:
    http://www.tglaw.com.au/corpor...
  • Website:
    http://www.tglaw.com.au
  • Phone Number:
    +61 7 3338 7522
  • E-mail:
    jmcstay@tglaw.com.au
  • Location:
    Level 28, Waterfront Place
    1 Eagle Street
    Brisbane, AU QLD 4000

Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm’s Brisbane Health & Aged Care team. The team is a unique combination of 12 lawyers and clinical consultants. Julie’s team forms part of the larger national Health & Aged Care team working across Australia.

Julie specialises in providing regulatory compliance advice to residential aged care providers, home care providers, health care providers and disability service providers. Julie is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services to these industries. She provides advice in relation to all aspects of non-compliance including sanction and accreditation decisions, coroner’s matters, major incident investigations and workplace health and safety investigations.

She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits. She is a trusted advisor to some of the largest aged care providers in the country and is retained for many providers in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

In addition, Julie is a Director of Simply Legal Pty Ltd, an organisation that offers access online to high-quality document templates for aged care providers and retirement village operators.

Julie has a Masters of Law with a major in health law. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Relevant Experience:

Compliance

  • Acting for aged care providers in relation to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
  • Acting for aged care providers in the review of administrative decisions including revocation of accreditation of an aged care service and the imposition of sanctions on an approved provider in respect of a residential aged care facility.
  • Advising aged care providers on approvals, transfer of places and managing provisionally allocated places.
  • Providing advice to aged care providers and retirement village operators on a multitude of regulatory compliance issues including security of tenure, substitute decision making, financial arrangements and prudential compliance.
  • Preparing public information documents and residence contracts for retirement village operators.
  • Developing and implementing training packages for aged care providers and retirement village operators in workplace health and safety, medication management, substitute decision-making, end of life decisions and managing major clinical incidents. Thomson Geer provides training services to clients directly. We are also engaged by the Leading Age Services Training Institute to provide a suite of training programs, which are delivered throughout the year.

Corporate Advisory

  • Advising aged care providers on aged care governance and the role of risk management and corrective action.
  • Advising various aged care providers on prudential bond management issues and associated restructuring.

Acquisition, Disposal, Development and Structuring

  • Advised a listed aged care provider on the acquisition of four aged care facilities in New South Wales and Queensland.
  • Acting in various acquisitions and disposals of aged care providers, aged care services and retirement villages both as share and asset sales, including review and negotiation of contracts, conducting legal due diligence, advising on regulatory issues including the transfer of aged care places.
  • Providing complex regulatory compliance advice to aged care providers and retirement village operators in the development of innovative seniors living models.

 

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Lawyer Bio

Julie is a Partner in the Aged Care and Retirement Living team at Thomson Geer. She leads the firm’s Brisbane Health & Aged Care team. The team is a unique combination of 12 lawyers and clinical consultants. Julie’s team forms part of the larger national Health & Aged Care team working across Australia.

Julie specialises in providing regulatory compliance advice to residential aged care providers, home care providers, health care providers and disability service providers. Julie is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services to these industries. She provides advice in relation to all aspects of non-compliance including sanction and accreditation decisions, coroner’s matters, major incident investigations and workplace health and safety investigations.

She advises a large range of aged care providers and retirement living operators including publicly listed groups, private groups and not-for-profits. She is a trusted advisor to some of the largest aged care providers in the country and is retained for many providers in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

In addition, Julie is a Director of Simply Legal Pty Ltd, an organisation that offers access online to high-quality document templates for aged care providers and retirement village operators.

Julie has a Masters of Law with a major in health law. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Relevant Experience:

Compliance

  • Acting for aged care providers in relation to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
  • Acting for aged care providers in the review of administrative decisions including revocation of accreditation of an aged care service and the imposition of sanctions on an approved provider in respect of a residential aged care facility.
  • Advising aged care providers on approvals, transfer of places and managing provisionally allocated places.
  • Providing advice to aged care providers and retirement village operators on a multitude of regulatory compliance issues including security of tenure, substitute decision making, financial arrangements and prudential compliance.
  • Preparing public information documents and residence contracts for retirement village operators.
  • Developing and implementing training packages for aged care providers and retirement village operators in workplace health and safety, medication management, substitute decision-making, end of life decisions and managing major clinical incidents. Thomson Geer provides training services to clients directly. We are also engaged by the Leading Age Services Training Institute to provide a suite of training programs, which are delivered throughout the year.

Corporate Advisory

  • Advising aged care providers on aged care governance and the role of risk management and corrective action.
  • Advising various aged care providers on prudential bond management issues and associated restructuring.

Acquisition, Disposal, Development and Structuring

  • Advised a listed aged care provider on the acquisition of four aged care facilities in New South Wales and Queensland.
  • Acting in various acquisitions and disposals of aged care providers, aged care services and retirement villages both as share and asset sales, including review and negotiation of contracts, conducting legal due diligence, advising on regulatory issues including the transfer of aged care places.
  • Providing complex regulatory compliance advice to aged care providers and retirement village operators in the development of innovative seniors living models.

 

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Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Health and Aged Care Law, Brisbane (2021)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Australia for work in:

  • Health and Aged Care Law
  • Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law
 

Awards:

  • Doyle’s Guide (2016 – 2019) was recognised as a pre-eminent lawyer in Health & Aged Care in Queensland.

    Doyle's Guide (2019) - one of only four pre-eminent lawyers in Health & Aged Care in Australia.

 

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Firm Details

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Thomson Geer
http://www.tglaw.com.au
 
Headquarters
Sixty Martin Place
Level 14, 60 Martin Place
Sydney, AU NSW 2000
61 2 8248 5800
5 Office Locations
in 1 Country

Australia

Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Level 7

19 Gouger Street

Adelaide SA 5000

Australia

61 8 8236 1300

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Brisbane, Australia

Level 28, Waterfront Place

1 Eagle Street

Brisbane QLD 4000

Australia

61 7 3338 7500

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Melbourne, Australia

Level 39, Rialto South Tower

525 Collins Street

Melbourne VIC 3000

Australia

61 3 8080 3500

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Perth, Australia

Level 27, Exchange Tower

2 The Esplanade

Perth 6000

Australia

61 8 9404 9100

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