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Oliver, Joshua

Joshua Oliver

Associate

joshuaoliver@quinnemanuel.com
Direct Tel: +61 2 9146 3679
Sydney
Tel: +61 2 9146 3500 Fax: +61 2 9146 3600

Joshua is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Sydney office. He joined the firm in 2025, with a practice focusing on complex commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Joshua worked at a global elite law firm in Sydney, where he gained experience in the firm’s corporate, tax, privacy/cyber and dispute resolution teams.

Joshua commenced his career in New Zealand, having spent two years working full-time as a lecturer in both commercial law and information systems at the University of Auckland upon graduation.

Joshua is qualified in Australia and New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland, where he graduated as the Senior Scholar of the Faculty of Business & Economics and was awarded various prizes including the Legal Research Foundation’s Undergraduate Student Paper Award for producing the top Law Honours Dissertation nationwide for 2021.

  • University of Auckland
    (Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/ Bachelor of Commerce, 2022)
    • Senior Scholar, Faculty of Business & Economics
    • Four First in Course Awards
  • The Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • The High Court of Australia
  • Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of New Zealand
  • Caught Up in the Crossfire: Wilful Misconduct, Innocent Co-Insured Spouses and New Zealand’s Desperate Need for Reform [2024] JBL 24 - Journal of Business Law (UK).
  • Editorial (2023) 4 NZLSJ 9 – New Zealand Law Students’ Journal.
  • A case for change: companies and s 42 Notices of Claim through a post-Clayton lens [2023] NZLJ 92 – New Zealand Law Journal.
  • Companies and the Property (Relationships) Act 1976: The Parties are Separate But is the Company? (2022) 28 Auckland U L Rev 225 – Auckland University Law Review.
  • Separation and separate legal entities: a case for reforming the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (2022) 10 NZFLJ 191 – New Zealand Family Law Journal.