Clancy Petersen
Associate | Sydney,
Australia
Clancy.Petersen@kennedyslaw.com
+61 2 8215 5988
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Profile
Clancy is an Associate in Kennedys’ Sydney office working in financial lines (coverage and defence).
Clancy has garnered experience working at international, national and boutique law firms where she has cultivated a versatile skill set and client-focused approach to her work. Clancy has worked on a range of litigious and non-litigious matters involving property (residential and commercial), transactional/commercial disputes, defamation and general insurance.
Qualifications and admissions
Qualifications/Memberships
- Bachelor of Commerce (Banking) (Dalyell Scholar) | University of Sydney| 2022
- Bachelor of Laws | University of Sydney | 2024
Admissions
- Supreme Court of New South Wales | 2025
- High Court of Australia | 2025
Presentations and publications
- Nathan Buck and Clancy Petersen - Cost saver or chimera? Preliminary hearings on serious harm in defamation: Bottrill v Graham (No 2) [2025] NSWDC 221 - March 2026, also published in Gazette of Law & Journalism
- James Melvin, Jonathan Shakenovsky and Clancy Petersen - Summary judgment and complex cases - what’s the point? One Pro Investments Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 108 - April 2025
- James Melvin, Jonathan Shakenovsky and Clancy Petersen - Security of costs applications - it pays to cooperate (Builtcom Properties 15 Pty Ltd v Maxisa International Alexandria Property Australia Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 131) - April 2025
- James Melvin, Jonathan Shakenovsky and Clancy Petersen - Overriding purpose - still the most significant discovery in NSW (Lee v Belmore 88 Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 96) - April 2025
- James Melvin, Jonathan Shakenovsky and Clancy Petersen - It’s official - you can’t contract out of s18 of the ACL (Viterra Malt Pty Ltd v Cargill Australia Limited [2023] VSCA 157) - April 2025
Insurance and reinsurance