Ian Wylie practised as a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright followed by Ashurst for 16 years, then as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar for 11 years. He has experience in a range of industry sectors advising on dispute resolution management and strategy, and appearing in regulatory investigations and competition and consumer protection, intellectual property and other commercial litigation.

Michael Milnes has extensive legal and commercial experience, practising both as in-house counsel and at leading law firms in Australia, the UK and France. Michael has experience of advising at a strategic and operational level, across a wide range of commercial legal practice, including major contracts, competition and consumer law issues, marketing law, technology, IP and brand protection. Michael is also currently completing a Masters of Business Administration.

Tyrilly joined Practical Law Australia from IBM, where she held the role of lead counsel managing consulting services, hardware, and software licensing transactions across ANZ, with a special responsibility for privacy, data incidents and cybersecurity. Tyrilly has extensive practical IT law experience, with over 10 years' commercial experience in both private practice and in-house, advising on IP, competition and consumer laws, and PPSA.

Sharmila Shearing has more than 20 years' experience in intellectual property law gained from diverse roles in private practice, in-house, academia and public sector organisations. Prior to joining Practical Law Australia, Sharmila was operations manager at UNSW Innovations, the tech transfer and innovation office of UNSW, where her responsibilities included IP, contract and practice management. Her experience spans practice in IP commercial and litigation matters at Banki Haddock Fiora, Spruson and Ferguson, advisory at the Arts Law Centre of Australia and lecturing in IP law at the University of Sydney and UTS.

Leela Cejnar's career background includes 20 years’ in legal practice, both with leading law firms and with the Australian Public Service (notably with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Leela joins Practical Law after ten years in academia, where her primary area of legal research was competition law. Leela holds a PhD in competition law and has published widely on this area of the law. Leela is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Victoria, the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.