Darren graduated from the Australian National University with first class honours in Arts and Law.

As a Chevening Scholar he completed his masters (commercial law) at Jesus College, Cambridge. Followed by a stint as Pegasus Scholar at a leading Lincolns Inn intellectual property set and a Fleet Street law firm.

Qualified as chartered arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Appointed panel arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and panellist of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre.

For over 20 years Darren has worked in Asia, starting with Coudert Brothers, the first Western law firm in China through to his own independent firm FitzGerald Lawyers, headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Sydney and Perth.

FitzGerald Lawyers is on the panel of firms published by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs for Mainland China/Hong Kong.

Darren is an Honorary Professor of the ANU College of Law, where he convenes and lectures postgraduate courses in international commercial arbitration and commercial law.

He serves on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales.