A focus of my practice is working for companies in distressed situations, Australian banks, other credit providers and mortgage trusts, liquidators, voluntary administrators, receivers and secured creditors as well as corporate clients in contentious situations.

I cover a wide range of areas of law and regulation that impact upon the operations of large banks and corporations. This includes corporate restructuring and refinancing, formal insolvencies (voluntary administrations, receiverships and liquidations), capital raisings, regulatory (ASIC and ATO) investigations, complex commercial disputes and litigation risk management, private acquisitions and disposals, infrastructure arrangements, banking and finance arrangements, complex commercial transactions, third party supplier contracts.

I'm proud of my time seconded to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as senior lawyer to the National Insolvency Team and as senior legal counsel to the Property team at Lendlease.

Career highlights

• Cockatoo Coal Limited (as it was previously named): Acting for the administrators and subsequent deed administrators of the Cockatoo Coal group of entities in relation to its restructure.
• Dick Smith: Acting for McGrath Nicol as voluntary administrators and subsequent liquidators of the Dick Smith Group.
• Lendlease (while on secondment): Senior lawyer in the Property legal team at Lendlease in relation to a large and complex project with multiple stakeholders.
• ASIC (while on secondment): -Senior lawyer in the Markets Integrity Team at ASIC and then in the National Insolvency Practitioner’s Team providing legal support for the senior staff nationally, and other key stakeholder teams within ASIC on insolvency related enforcement matters.

Education
LLB (FIRST CLASS HONOURS), (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, 2001)

• Practical insolvency considerations for the construction industry
  

  We provide an overview of insolvency legislation, warning signs of insolvency and steps to take now to protect yourself from insolvency in your contracting chain.