Full background report
Justin Clyne
Company Secretary
Career chronology
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Current by FY2025 annual report; appointment date not stated: Cobre Limited — Company Secretary. Cobre Limited Annual Report 2025 (Corporate directory, p. ii; Company Secretary, p. 12)
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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 (Company Secretary, p. 12); AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013 (Company Secretary profile)
Education and qualifications
Legal and company-secretarial qualifications reported
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 (Company Secretary, p. 12); AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013 (Company Secretary profile)
Suitability for the current role
Legal and listed-company governance background fits company secretary role
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 (Company Secretary, p. 12); AusTex Oil Annual Report 2013 (Company Secretary profile)
Evidence gaps
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Full list and dates of concurrent company-secretarial and board appointments were not established.
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Admissions, UNSW degree and current professional memberships were not independently verified against primary registers.
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No Cobre-specific disclosure-control outcome was identified.
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ASIC, court, law-society and sanctions searches were not exhaustive.