About

Georgiena Ryan (Principal Lawyer)

Principal Georgiena Ryan has experience acting as solicitor to family and farming businesses, initially in her home state of Queensland where she grew up and later in the New South Wales Riverina and Central West NSW.   

Georgiena has unique commercial and corporate experience having held in-house legal roles with a specialist international rural and agribusiness bank, and with a leading global agricultural asset manager, responsible for a significant irrigation and dryland farming portfolio across Australia.   

Georgiena is the only female Accredited Specialist in Business Law located in rural NSW and has a Masters in Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne.

Georgiena has special expertise in water law and irrigation and has been involved in some of the largest agribusiness transactions in Australia.

Georgiena lives in the south west slopes of NSW on her husband’s family farm.  She is supported by the following team members who all live regionally in NSW:

Jillian Edis (Lawyer)

Jillian Edis started her career working as lawyer for one of Australia’s largest family-owned agribusinesses. Jill has worked in London for one of the largest energy companies in the UK and in Australia for the Australian Energy Market Operator providing advice on regulatory, corporate and commercial matters.   Jill has a Masters in Commercial Law.  Jill is also part of a large family broadacre cropping enterprise in western New South Wales.

Sally Hawkins (Licensed Conveyancer)

Sally Hawkins has had a long career in the agricultural sector working in agronomy, produce buying and grain procurement. As our admin and conveyancing extraordinaire, Sally has extensive book keeping experience and has recently completed her qualifications in conveyancing. Sally grew up in the southern NSW and spent many years in Moree before moving back to Wagga in 2019.

Taryn Gollasch (Lawyer)

Taryn Gollasch has 14 years post admission experience in corporate and commercial law, both in private practice and in-house, with a particular focus on the mining and energy industries. She commenced her career working in a corporate law firm in Tokyo, followed by the Mergers and Acquisitions team at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. Taryn moved in-house for a global mining company in Sydney and then Singapore before later spending five years in-house in the Singapore commodities trading office for a French based global energy company. Taryn returned to the Wagga Wagga area in 2018 to raise her family and take an active role in her family’s cropping and grazing business.

Tina Cooper (Lawyer)

Tina Cooper spent over 10 years in marketing and management for ASX listed retail property groups, as well as a short marketing stint with a London-based mid-tier accounting firm before moving back to central west NSW. Tina has since worked in regional tourism and project management. Tina completed her transition to commercial lawyer working remotely with a boutique commercial law firm in Canberra specialising in employment, not for profits, and general commercial. Tina lives on a farm near Caragabal in central west NSW with her husband and young family.