Joshua Heard

About Joshua Heard

Joshua Heard is a partner at SBA Law with close to two decades of experience advising public and private clients on corporate and commercial transactions. His practice centres on negotiated mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investments and exits, for clients spanning small and mid-sized businesses, family offices and superannuation funds. He also regularly advises on shareholder arrangements and corporate restructuring. Before joining SBA Law he spent over seven years at DLA Piper, including an in-house secondment with a corporate client.

Doyle’s Guide lists Joshua Heard as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026.

Doyle’s Guide rankings

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

Business & Commercial Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedDoyle’s 2026 · SBA LawSource →

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 Joshua Heard. 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.

Business & Commercial Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedRecommended 2023–2026Source →
Corporate Lawyers, VictoriaRecommendedRecommended 2025Source →

Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Joshua Heard is not in the Victorian business and commercial lawyers list for 2021–2022, which we confirmed by searching each of those pages; that list was first published in 2021. 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 Joshua Heard handles

As listed by SBA Law:

Mergers and acquisitions
Venture capital investments and exits
Shareholder arrangements
Corporate restructures

Sectors. SMEs; Family offices; Venture capital funds; Superannuation funds.

Career and background

Spent over seven years at DLA Piper before joining SBA Law, including an in-house secondment with a corporate client. (source)
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Monash University. (source)

Register details

Joshua Heard 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).

Name on the registerJoshua Heard
Practising certificate typePrincipal with Trust
Practising atSBA Legal Pty Ltd
Areas of practiceBusiness/Corporate Law, Commercial Law
Accredited specialisationsNot applicable
LanguagesNot applicable

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 Joshua Heard?

Joshua Heard is a partner at SBA Law in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and exits and shareholder arrangements.

Is Joshua Heard ranked by Doyle’s Guide?

Doyle’s Guide lists Joshua Heard as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.

What does Joshua Heard specialise in?

According to SBA Law: Mergers and acquisitions; Venture capital investments and exits; Shareholder arrangements; Corporate restructures.

How do I contact Joshua Heard?

Through SBA Law. This profile is editorial; Joshua Heard has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.

Sources

Doyle’s Guide. Every ranking on this page was read from a published Doyle’s Guide list page on doylesguide.com on 17 September 2026, one page per list per edition. Doyle’s tiers are produced by Doyle’s from peer, client and referrer surveys; we report them with attribution.

Register. The register block reproduces the entry on the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner register of lawyers, retrieved 17 September 2026.

Biography. The summary, practice areas and background are paraphrased from SBA Law’s profile, reviewed in September 2026, and from the further sources linked beside each item. We have not used data brokers or LinkedIn, and we do not name clients or transactions.

Photo. Portrait as published by the firm or organisation named in the sources above. Copyright remains with its owner; we will remove it on request.

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