About Julia
Julia Heyward is a senior associate in our workplace advisory practice in Melbourne. She works with public and private companies, founder-led businesses and not-for profit organisations across various sectors, including financial services, retail, hospitality, health and technology.
Julia advises in a diverse range of employment matters, including advising on contractual and incentive arrangements, post-employment restraints, restructures, employment matters in commercial transactions and litigation and dispute resolution.
Julia joined the firm in 2019 and was admitted to practice in 2021. Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Monash University.
Practice focus
Julia’s practice spans advisory and litigation work, and includes:
- strategic employee engagement, including executive remuneration and benefits
- sensitive employment disputes and investigations
- award compliance
- employment litigation
- post-employment restraints
- discrimination matters
- organisational restructures, and
- employment aspects in commercial transactions.
“Thank you, not only for what we achieved, but for the way you went about it. It made all the difference.”
Experience
Julia’s recent experience includes advising:
- An ASX listed company on the employment aspects of a merger
- A private company in the services industry: managing large scale and historical underpayments and industrial disputes
- A national retailer: in relation to various employment disputes, preparation of contracts of employment, policies and procedures
- A not-for-profit land council: in relation to a wholesale employment and workplace review, strategic workplace planning and change management
- A not-for-profit on the dismissal of its CEO
- A national retailer on complex executive incentive arrangements
- In relation to complex employment matters within the family office environment
- In relation to tribunal and Court level discrimination claims
