Keith Thompson
Special Counsel, Notary Public
LLB (Hons); M Jur; PhD

Email
kthompson@hflawyers.com.au

Assistant
Belinda Anderson
banderson@hflawyers.com.au

Keith has been practising law for more than 30 years with broad experience in commercial and property law matters, including large construction projects and the related town planning matters.

Prior to joining Harris Friedman, Keith was a partner at a commercial firm in Auckland New Zealand and then worked in-house as International Legal Counsel overseeing the legal issues of the LDS Church through first, 26 countries in the Pacific and then more than 40 countries through the African continent.

Keith’s experience includes business entity structuring and compliance, cross-border financing, taxation, insolvency and commercial dispute resolution. In 2011 Keith published an international textbook on the law related to “Religious Confession Privilege” and his article on Insolvency Law was published in the Australian Law Journal.

Keith’s in-house clients have particularly valued his accessibility and willingness to find practical, prompt solutions to problems allowing important relationships to be preserved despite temporary disagreements.

Keith is a Senior Fellow of the Law and Religion Centre at the J Reuben Clark School of Law in Provo, Utah, and A Fellow of The Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries.


In his spare time…

Keith enjoys his family and his grandchildren, long distance motorcycle touring, reading and he has written an Oratorio.

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