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Craig Semple

Partner, Corporate Advisory · Gilbert + Tobin

Melbourne, VIC

Doyle’s Guide Leading 2026 · Business & CommercialSolicitorGilbert + TobinMelbourneRegister-checked 17 September 2026

Quick answer

Craig Semple is a partner in the Corporate Advisory group at Gilbert + Tobin in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and schemes of arrangement and equity capital markets. Doyle’s Guide lists Craig Semple as Leading among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Preeminent in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. The Victorian register of lawyers lists Craig Semple as a current practitioner (Principal with Trust).

Firm

Gilbert + Tobin

Role

Partner, Corporate Advisory

Office

Melbourne

Doyle’s Guide

Leading 2026

Register

Principal with Trust

About Craig Semple

Craig Semple is a Melbourne partner in Gilbert + Tobin's Corporate Advisory group. His practice covers general corporate and commercial law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and schemes of arrangement, and equity capital markets. He also advises listed companies on governance and securities law questions such as meetings, directors' liabilities, insider trading, and ASX Listing Rules and Corporations Act compliance.

Doyle’s Guide lists Craig Semple as Leading among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Preeminent in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list.

Doyle’s Guide rankings

Craig Semple’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.

About Doyle’s Guide rankings. Doyle’s Guide produces annual tier rankings of individual lawyers from peer, client and referrer surveys. Tiers run Market Leader / Preeminent / Leading / Recommended. We report Doyle’s published rankings with attribution; we do not produce these tiers ourselves. Read Doyle’s methodology →

Doyle’s ranking history

Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Craig Semple. Each list page was opened individually on doylesguide.com, one edition at a time, on 17 September 2026; no run of years has been inferred from a single page.

Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. We searched Doyle’s Victorian and national lawyer lists for commercial, corporate, property, leasing, insolvency, technology, employment, construction and estates work from 2015 to 2026.

What Craig Semple handles

As listed by Gilbert + Tobin:

Sectors. Financial services; Healthcare and life sciences; Private capital; Superannuation.

Career and background

Other recognition

Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.

Register details

Craig Semple is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry is reproduced below as it appeared on 17 September 2026 (the address field is omitted).

About the register. The register records every person entitled to practise law in Victoria. A principal certificate is held by a partner or director of a law practice; “with trust” means the practitioner may receive trust money. Areas of practice are nominated by the practitioner. View the register entry →

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Craig Semple?

Craig Semple is a partner in the Corporate Advisory group at Gilbert + Tobin in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and schemes of arrangement and equity capital markets.

Is Craig Semple ranked by Doyle’s Guide?

Doyle’s Guide lists Craig Semple as Leading among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Preeminent in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.

What does Craig Semple specialise in?

According to Gilbert + Tobin: Mergers and acquisitions; Takeovers and schemes of arrangement; Equity capital markets; Private capital; Corporate governance and securities law; ASX Listing Rules and Corporations Act compliance.

How do I contact Craig Semple?

Through Gilbert + Tobin. This profile is editorial; Craig Semple has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.

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