Toby Norgate

About Toby Norgate

Toby Norgate is a Principal in KHQ Lawyers' Corporate & Commercial team in Melbourne, working on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets matters for clients in technology, resources, transport and financial services. Before joining KHQ, he held senior in-house roles, ran his own firm, was seconded to a major telco's legal team, and spent seven years with capital-markets regulators, including co-managing legal and market-supervision functions at the New Zealand Stock Exchange. He holds postgraduate qualifications in applied finance and an honours degree in political science, and was admitted as a lawyer in Victoria in 2008, having first been admitted in New Zealand in 1999. Legal 500 Asia Pacific named him a recommended corporate/M&A lawyer in 2026.

Doyle’s Guide lists Toby Norgate as Leading among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026.

Doyle’s Guide rankings

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

Business & Commercial Lawyers, VictoriaLeadingDoyle’s 2026 · KHQ LawyersSource →

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 Toby Norgate. 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, VictoriaLeadingLeading 2025–2026Source →

Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Toby Norgate 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. 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 Toby Norgate handles

As listed by KHQ Lawyers:

Mergers and acquisitions
Capital markets
Corporate and commercial law

Sectors. Technology; Resources; Transport; Financial services.

Career and background

Held senior in-house counsel roles and previously ran his own law firm before joining KHQ Lawyers. (source)
Seconded to the legal team of one of Australia's largest telecommunications companies. (source)
Spent seven years with capital markets regulators, including co-managing legal and market-supervision functions at the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX), advising its funds-management arm, and acting as convenor of its Listing Subcommittee. (source)
Principal in KHQ Lawyers' Corporate & Commercial team, Melbourne (current). (source)
Postgraduate qualification in applied finance (Masters in Applied Finance). (source)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), majoring in political science. (source)
Admitted to practice as a lawyer in Victoria in 2008; first admitted in New Zealand in 1999. (source)
Board member of an incorporated association focused on emerging technologies (association not named on the bio). (source)

Other recognition

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

Legal 500 Asia Pacific: recommended lawyer, corporate/M&A (2026). (source)

Register details

Toby Norgate 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 registerToby Norgate
Practising certificate typePrincipal with Trust
Practising atYOKO HOLDINGS PTY LTD
Areas of practiceNot applicable
Accredited specialisationsNot applicable
LanguagesNot applicable

The register lists the practising entity for Toby Norgate as Yoko Holdings Pty Ltd, while KHQ Lawyers lists Toby Norgate as a principal of the firm. Both are reproduced as published; we have not assumed what the relationship between them is.

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 Toby Norgate?

Toby Norgate is a principal at KHQ Lawyers in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate and commercial law.

Is Toby Norgate ranked by Doyle’s Guide?

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

What does Toby Norgate specialise in?

According to KHQ Lawyers: Mergers and acquisitions; Capital markets; Corporate and commercial law.

How do I contact Toby Norgate?

Through KHQ Lawyers. This profile is editorial; Toby Norgate 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 KHQ Lawyers’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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