Partner · Johnson Winter Slattery
Melbourne, VIC
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Simon Haddy is a partner at Johnson Winter Slattery in Melbourne, working in mergers & acquisitions, funds management and foreign direct investment. Doyle’s Guide lists Simon Haddy as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. The Victorian register of lawyers lists Simon Haddy as a current practitioner (Principal with Trust).
Firm
Johnson Winter Slattery
Role
Partner
Office
Melbourne
Doyle’s Guide
Recommended 2026
Register
Principal with Trust
Simon Haddy is a Melbourne-based partner at Johnson Winter Slattery whose practice centres on infrastructure, clean energy and technology transactions. His work spans mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, equity investments, joint ventures and funds management mandates for owners, operators and investors in those sectors. He spent two decades at Herbert Smith Freehills, joining as an articled clerk in 1999 and being made partner in 2008, before moving to Johnson Winter Slattery's Melbourne corporate team as a partner in 2019. He also lectures on securities regulation at the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Business School, and has written on funds management and corporate law reform.
Doyle’s Guide lists Simon Haddy as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list.
Simon Haddy’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.
Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Simon Haddy. 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. Simon Haddy is not in the Victorian business and commercial lawyers list for 2021–2024, which we confirmed by searching each of those pages; that list was first published in 2021. Doyle’s listings over the years name Herbert Smith Freehills, Johnson Winter & Slattery and Johnson Winter Slattery. 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.
As listed by Johnson Winter Slattery:
Sectors. Infrastructure; Clean energy; Technology.
Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.
Simon Haddy 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).
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Simon Haddy is a partner at Johnson Winter Slattery in Melbourne, working in mergers & acquisitions, funds management and foreign direct investment.
Doyle’s Guide lists Simon Haddy as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026, and Recommended in its Corporate Lawyers, Victoria list. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.
According to Johnson Winter Slattery: Mergers & Acquisitions; Funds Management; Foreign Direct Investment; Clean Energy & Emerging Energy Technology; Financial Services Regulation; Infrastructure & Utilities.
Through Johnson Winter Slattery. This profile is editorial; Simon Haddy has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.
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