Dr Daye Gang

Dr Gang acts in construction and property disputes, complex commercial litigation, regulatory matters, asset-preservation applications and cross-border corporate investigations.  She combines substantial advocacy experience with technical-evidence capability, strategic judgement, multilingual skills and strong Asia-Pacific networks.

Practice Focus

• Construction, engineering, property and infrastructure disputes.
• Commercial contracts, equitable claims and corporate disputes.
• Regulatory enforcement and judicial review.
• Freezing orders, preliminary discovery and asset preservation.
• Sanctions, money laundering regulations, cross-border corporate investigations.
• Technical and expert evidence.

Selected Experience

• Complex defended proceedings spanning judicial review, privacy advice and a human rights commission complaint arising from the same factual matrix.
• Rectification dispute concerning a custom residential development and joint defendants.
• Pre-litigation advice and settlement negotiations for a builder concerning repudiatory breach on a residential development.
• Pleadings and negotiations for a commercial subtenant concerning nested lease arrangements and a call on a bank guarantee.
• Ex parte freezing order over a debtor’s interstate assets.
• Commercial and regulatory proceedings involving company and director liability, consumer protection, building regulation, gambling regulation and unjust enrichment.
• Junior counsel in a seven-accused international money-laundering prosecution involving forensic financial expert evidence.
• Sole and junior counsel in judicial review proceedings and criminal appeals in the Supreme Court of Victoria and Court of Appeal.
• Advice and analysis concerning multinational enterprises, sanctions compliance, trade fraud and contracts spanning multiple jurisdictions.
• Advice on a Singapore-listed company operating under cross-border contractual arrangements.

Construction Law Credentials

• Graduate Diploma of Construction Law, University of Melbourne, 2025–present.
• 2025 Society of Construction Law Australia Student Brooking Prize.
• Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize for highest mark in Remedies in the Construction Context, 2025.
• Editor, Society of Construction Law Australia, Year in Review, 2026–present.
• Construction law speaker at Foley’s List Commercial CPD Conferences 2025-2026.

Asia-Pacific and International Capability

Native English and Korean; fluent French; social Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish.  Experienced in multilingual legal research, working in international teams, and matters involving Asian companies, regulators and legal systems.

Qualifications and Recognition

• PhD, Monash University, 2023.
• LLB (First Class Honours) / BA, French major and Mandarin minor, 2014.
• International Bar Association Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, 2020.
• Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 — Barrister, 2020.

Memberships

• Arbitration Committee, Victorian Bar.
• Society of Construction Law Australia.
• Lighthouse Club.

Article Two

Daye founded Article Two, a crowdfund for public interest law designed to help lawyers comply with their ethical and financial obligations. Article Two accepts campaigns from all Australian-admitted lawyers for any place in the world, allows donations from 45 countries, and permits tax-deductible donations for DGR-registered legal services.