Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Creditor Claims
  • Directors' Duties

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Creditor Claims
  • Directors' Duties
  • Financial Services
  • Liquidation
  • Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation and disputes
  • Receivership
  • Reconstruction
  • Voluntary Administration
  • View More

Profile

In these cases, I aim to negotiate a resolution by voluntary surrender of the secured assets.

My practice includes acting for insolvency practitioners in claims regarding uncommercial transactions and unfair preferences. I am often involved in the pre-litigation stage, which ensures I can assist my clients to resolve disputes without incurring the cost or risk of court proceedings.

Career highlights

  • Assisted banks and other lenders, most notably, ANZ, HomeStart Finance, RedZed Lending Solutions and Westpac Banking Corporation
  • Advised on disputes involving asset tracing, bankruptcy, debt recovery, security enforcement, unfair preference claims and winding up
  • Represented a financier in settling a Supreme Court claim brought by a borrower alleging contraventions of the National Credit Code and Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations, as well as undue influence
  • Worked with a major bank on a substantial rural exposure to have borrowers deliver up the secured property, then managed the subsequent appointment of receivers to effect sale of the holdings
  • Acted for bank and non-bank mortgagees in Supreme Court proceedings to obtain possession of secured properties, including by negotiating voluntary surrenders to avoid the risk and cost of litigation
  • Helped receivers negotiate pre-litigation outcomes in the recovery of secured assets
  • Reviewed the security position of major lending institutions and financiers, and advised on enforcement options
  • Prosecuted and defended claims by liquidators concerning unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions and insolvent trading
  • Registered as a member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association, a committee member of the Women’s Insolvency Network South Australia and a committee member of the Law Council of Australia
  • Provided pro bono legal assistance to disadvantaged individuals through referrals from JusticeNet

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance Litigation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Creditor Claims
  • Directors' Duties
  • Financial Services
  • Liquidation
  • Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation and disputes
  • Receivership
  • Reconstruction
  • Voluntary Administration

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