Ms. Trist is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer. Her particular focus is on franchising and licensing arrangements, disputes, and compliance. Ms. Trist's clients include numerous well-known Australian and international companies. She assists them with sensible legal and commercial solutions to franchising issues and general commercial advice. She has worked closely with franchisors, master franchisees and franchisees of almost 250 different franchising systems across a broad spectrum of industries.

Ms. Trist has an in-depth understanding of Australian franchising regulation and compliance. Her franchising experiences ranges from documenting new franchise systems and converting existing businesses to franchisees, assisting existing franchise systems with their commercial issues and assisting franchising parties to resolve disputes through negotiation and mediation. Ms. Trist's experience in the different levels of franchising has enabled her to understand it from the point of view of all parties and to provide sensible and practical commercial advice.