# Justin Clyne

Company Secretary

## Career chronology

- **Current by FY2025 annual report; appointment date not stated: Cobre Limited** — Company Secretary. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025](<https://www.cobre.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025AnnualReport14Oct25.pdf>) (Corporate directory, p. ii; Company Secretary, p. 12)

- **Full chronology not established; issuer profile describes 15 years legal practice followed by full-time corporate advisory and secretarial work: Listed and unlisted companies** — Company director / company secretary and corporate adviser. [Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025](<https://www.cobre.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025AnnualReport14Oct25.pdf>) (Company Secretary, p. 12); [AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20140326/pdf/42nmf1lrf86lrn.pdf>) (Company Secretary profile)

## Education and qualifications

### Legal and company-secretarial qualifications reported [justin_clyne_education]

1996–2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Cobre’s FY2025 annual report states Clyne was admitted as a NSW and High Court solicitor in 1996 and as a barrister in 1998, is a qualified Chartered Company Secretary and AICD member. A 2013 issuer annual report also records an LLM in International Law from UNSW. Admission and membership were not verified directly with the bodies.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer disclosures provide credentials and admission dates; no direct professional-register verification was completed.

**Relevance:** Relevant to company-secretarial and ASX disclosure duties.

[Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025](<https://www.cobre.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025AnnualReport14Oct25.pdf>) (Company Secretary, p. 12); [AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20140326/pdf/42nmf1lrf86lrn.pdf>) (Company Secretary profile)

## Suitability for the current role

### Legal and listed-company governance background fits company secretary role [justin_clyne_fit]

1996–2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Issuer annual reports describe legal practice, corporate advisory and company-secretarial work with familiarity with the Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rules. The documents do not detail current workload across concurrent appointments or Cobre-specific control outcomes.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Judgment rests on disclosed legal and governance remit; no individual governance breach or success is inferred.

**Relevance:** Strongly role-relevant formal experience; capacity and performance evidence remain limited.

[Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025](<https://www.cobre.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025AnnualReport14Oct25.pdf>) (Company Secretary, p. 12); [AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20140326/pdf/42nmf1lrf86lrn.pdf>) (Company Secretary profile)

## Evidence gaps

- Full list and dates of concurrent company-secretarial and board appointments were not established.

- Admissions, UNSW degree and current professional memberships were not independently verified against primary registers.

- No Cobre-specific disclosure-control outcome was identified.

- ASIC, court, law-society and sanctions searches were not exhaustive.
