Mr. Goldie is a senior corporate lawyer specializing in capital raisings, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, managed funds, securities licensing, corporate and commercial law. Previously he headed up the corporate division in Sydney of Piper Alderman, a national full service law firm, and prior to that he was a partner of Holman Webb, a well known and long established legal firm in Sydney.

After beginning his legal career as a litigator in Sydney, in the late 80's Mr. Goldie worked in London with Bain & Co, a stock broking firm, and in the early 90s was a principal lawyer with the Australian Securities Commission (as it then was) on its Rothwells Task Force in Perth, Western Australia. He went on from there to become the principal legal officer in Corporate Regulation and the Fundraising and Markets division of the Australian Securities Commission in New South Wales from 1992 to 1996, acting as Director of Markets and Director of Fundraising in New South Wales at various times.

At the Securities Commission he had responsibility for lawyers defending administrative challenges to Commission decisions, advising on the Commission's proceedings before the Company Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board, was a hearing delegate for the Commission on securities licensing disqualification hearings, and advised the Commission on nearly all major takeovers, initial public offerings and managed fund issues in New South Wales in the period.