Peter Dunne is one of Australia's leading private equity and venture capital lawyers, specialising in M&A and private capital raisings. Mr Dunne has advised some of the leading Australian tech companies, including Atlassian in its first round of funding over 12 years ago, Canva, Deputy, Cloud9, Culture Amp, Expert360, Iron Mountain, OzForex, Tyro and many others. He has also assisted the Federal Government on its reforms to the federal tax system to facilitate start-up capital raising and employee share schemes.
Mr Dunne has seen several tech and market cycles and watched the evolution of the Australian tech ecosystem and we discuss the current tech landscape, how the venture capital space has evolved and any comments on what the future could look like in this space.