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Acting for the plaintiffs — Unfair preference claims (“running account” and “good faith” defence); construction of deed of settlement and release. Instructed by K&L Gates.
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Directions to court-appointed receivers — permissible legal costs under freezing order. For the receivers, instructed by Norton Rose Fulbright Australia.
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Appeal — dispute between classes of unitholders in trust — (priorities dispute; proper construction of trust deed) For the Class C representative, instructed by Resolve Litigation Lawyers.
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Replacing company-appointed voluntary administrators with court-appointed receivers and managers. For the plaintiff; instructed by HWL Ebsworth Lawyers.
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Appeals from (a) non-party costs order and (b) property orders in family law proceedings. For the appellants and second respondent in NAA 83 of 2024, instructed by C Law Firm.
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Acting for the plaintiff in an oppression proceeding; instructed by Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
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Approval of funding deed and limitation of administrators’ personal liability. For the plaintiffs, instructed by Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
Year
Treatment of claims of Australian-based customers of collapsed transnational crypto-currency exchange. Acting for the plaintiffs, instructed by Piper Alderman.
Year
Creditors’ scheme of arrangement (contingent reserving scheme) (appeared for ASIC). Following in re Catholic Church Insurance Ltd [2023] FCA 1197.
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Creditors’ scheme of arrangement (contingent reserving scheme) (appeared for ASIC). Followed by in re Catholic Church Insurance Ltd (No 2) [2023] FCA 1352.
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Dispute between classes of unitholders in trust (priorities dispute; proper construction of trust deed). For the ‘C’ Class Unitholders, instructed by Resolve Litigation Lawyers. Following Shao v One Funds Management Ltd [2023] VSC 192.
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Dispute between classes of unitholders in trust (priorities dispute; proper construction of trust deed). For the ‘C’ Class Unitholders, instructed by Resolve Litigation Lawyers. Followed by Shao v One Funds Management Ltd [2023] VSC 251.
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Approval of receivers’ appointment (where no power of appointment in mortgage and mortgage of lease over Crown land had not received prior Ministerial consent. For the plaintiff, instructed by Norton Rose Fulbright Australia.
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Dual schemes of arrangement (“top-hat” scheme and options scheme) — first ever acquisition of an ASX-listed company by a US “SPAC”; opposed by ASIC. For the plaintiff, instructed by Mann Lawyers. Following in re Security Matters Limited [2023] FCA 19; (No 2) [2023] FCA 40.
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Dual schemes of arrangement (“top-hat” scheme and options scheme) — first ever acquisition of an ASX-listed company by a US “SPAC”; opposed by ASIC. For the plaintiff, instructed by Mann Lawyers. Following in re Security Matters Limited [2023] FCA 19; followed by in re Security Matters Limited (No 3) [2023]…
Year
Loan recovery by Chinese state-owned entity; counterclaim for misleading conduct and contravention of Money Lenders Ordinance (Hong Kong). For the defendant, instructed by HWL Ebsworth.
Year
Dual schemes of arrangement (“top-hat” scheme and options scheme) — first ever acquisition of an ASX-listed company by a US “SPAC”; opposed by ASIC. For the plaintiff, instructed by Mann Lawyers. Followed by in re Security Matters Limited (No 2) [2023] FCA 40; (No 3) [2023] FCA 140.
Year
Dispute between first and second mortgagees about exercise of mortgagee’s power of sale. For the first and third respondents with P Bick KC, instructed by SBA Law.
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Scheme of arrangement (acquisition scheme). For the plaintiff, instructed by Nicholson Ryan Lawyers. Following in re PropTech Group Ltd [2022] FCA 1606.
Year
Scheme of arrangement (acquisition scheme). For the plaintiff, instructed by Nicholson Ryan Lawyers. Followed by in re PropTech Group Ltd (No 2) [2023] FCA 89.
Year
Extension of convening period in voluntary administration (collapsed transnational crypto-currency exchange). For the plaintiffs, and with V Bell; instructed by Piper Alderman.
Year
Scheme of arrangement (acquisition scheme). For the plaintiff, instructed by K&L Gates. Following in re PayGroup Ltd [2022] FCA 1026 (as junior counsel).
Year
Liquidator’s application for directions — transfer of proceeding to Family Court. For the defendant, unled; instructed by Efron & Associates.
Year
Approval of liquidator’s compromise. For the plaintiffs, instructed by FCW Lawyers.
