School of Law: Law School Staff - Franco Camatta

Franco Camatta
LLB (Hons), LLM (Companies & Securities) (Adel), GDLP (SAIT)

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Franco Camatta has been in legal practice since 1979 with the Adelaide law firm Camatta Lempens  Pty Ltd , where he is a  director. His firm is one of the Law School’s generous prize donors, which recognise student academic achievement. Franco’s practice traverses corporate and commercial law, insolvency law, finance and securities law, property law, and business and industrial law. As part of his Masters studies, Franco completed a thesis on ‘The Extraterritorial Application of the Antitrust Laws of the US and the European Community’. He has a long history of professional and community service through past or current memberships of a number of bodies, including the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, the Taxation Institute of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia Liaison Committee and the South Australian Council of Social Services. He is a qualified mediator with Leading Edge Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR) and is President of Relationships Australia (SA) Inc.  During 2006-2007 he was engaged with the Asian Development Bank in the Technical Assistance project "Promoting Governance in Financial Transaction" in the Lao PDR.  He was responsible for drafting a Decree on the Implementation of the Secured Transactions Law in the Lao PDR for consideration by the Lao Government. He serves as the legal practitioner member on the Nurses Board of South Australia. He is the coordinator of the Commercial and Corporate Practice course at the Law Society of South Australia’s GDLP programme, and he is an important and welcome contributor to the same-named topic at Flinders. Franco has also made major contributions to the teaching and assessment of topics at Flinders over recent years, including Banking and Finance Law, Securities Regulation and the MBA (Int Bus) topic Legal Aspects of International Business. In recognition of these past and expected future contributions, the University in 2003 conferred adjunct academic status upon Franco.