The next chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has come a long way since his days working as a commercial lawyer for the firm representing failed tycoon Alan Bond.
As a partner at Parker & Parker, Bond’s main legal representative, Joseph Longo told The Australian Financial Review in 1992 the Perth law firm had a “sizeable team” of solicitors working for Bond Corp. He was one of them.
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