Profile

Ganesh practices in commercial law.  He has appeared as sole counsel and led by senior counsel in a wide range of matters spanning corporations’ law and insolvency, financial services, equity and civil fraud, insurance, employment and public law. He has a particular interest in regulatory proceedings and is often briefed both for and against government agencies such as ASIC, APRA, the Australian Taxation Office and Victorian State Revenue Office.

In addition to his practice, Ganesh currently serves as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria (CommBar) and a reporter for the Australian Corporations and Securities Reports.

Ganesh has also been called to the Bar of England & Wales as a member of the Inner Temple.

Prior to joining the Bar, Ganesh served as Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice Michael Sifris and the Honourable Justice Clyde Croft AM of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He also has significant regulatory and policy experience, having worked in the Mergers and Authorisation and Enforcement branches of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, as well as the Australian Taxation Office, and as a staffer in Federal Parliament to the Honourable Mark Dreyfus KC. 

Some matters in which Ganesh has been briefed include: 

• Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Bringans & Ors (Administrative Appeals Tribunal, led by Dr P Bender) (Financial Services): ​Briefed for ASIC, in relation to an appeal against disqualification orders made by a delegate of the regulator against three directors of an Australian company following alleged breaches of Chapter 7​Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) through its Israeli agent.

• Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Westpac Banking Corporation (Led by R Enbom QC and D Luxton) (Financial Services) (Federal Court of Australia): Briefed for ASIC in relation to alleged breaches of Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) arising from fees-for-no-service-conduct committed by the respondent bank and its subsidiary licensees.  

• Asmar v Albanese & Ors; Kairouz v Bracks & Macklin & Ors (Supreme Court of Victoria [2021] VSC 672) (Court of Appeal [2022] VSCA 19) (High Court [2022] HCASL 71) (Led by B Walker SC, P Willis SC, AD Lang and J Kirkwood) (Judicial Review): Briefed for the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party in relation to an application for judicial review with respect to the 2020 intervention into the Victorian branch of the ALP.

• Monarch Tower​ (in liq) v Payton Capital & Ors [2024] FCA 716 (Federal Court of Australia, led by D Bongiorno) (Corporations, Insolvency): Briefed for seven of fifteen respondents opposing an application for shelf orders by the applicant liquidator made pursuant to s588FF Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) in respect of alleged voidable transactions.

• Pinnacle v QBE Insurance (Supreme Court of Victoria) [2023] VSC 621 (Trial, led by T Scotter) and [2024] VSCA 287 (Appeal, led by S Gladman SC) (Insurance): Briefed for the plaintiff insured in a proceeding and subsequent appeal concerning the construction of a third-party liability insurance policy.

• ATC Insurance v United Firefighters Union of Australia (Federal Court of Australia) (Led by J Kirkwood SC) (Financial Services, Employment) – Briefed for the Plaintiff in relation to allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct under s12DA of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) and injurious falsehood against the defendant union.

• Tam v Worksafe Victoria [2023] NSWSC 173 (Supreme Court of New South Wales) (Led by PJ Hayes KC): Briefed for the Respondent workplace health and safety regulator to defend an application for judicial review. 

Date of Admission: 

15 Aug 2017

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First Signed Bar Roll: 

24 Oct 2019

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Division of Bar Roll: 

AI - Victorian Practising Counsel

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Previous Occupation: 

Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice Michael Sifris and the Honourable Justice Clyde Croft AM, Supreme Court of Victoria; Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC); Parliament of Australia

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Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.