‘Michelle Gordon, Michael Catchpoole and their broader team are simply outstanding operators. They have an impressive depth of experience, incredibly sharp legal minds, and a genuine care about their clients’ outcomes, which translates into a tireless tenacity to effectively and efficiently progress claims towards positive results.’

‘Michael Catchpoole is a deep legal thinker and a savvy strategist, often thinking outside the box to arrive at creative solutions and approaches that others have not thought of. Combining his talent with his impressive depth of experience and legal knowledge, makes Michael a formidable litigator to have in your corner.’

‘Michelle Gordon is an impressively skilled, intelligent and tenacious operator. Unflappable under pressure, impeccably prepared, careful and thorough in all aspects of her work, and strong and effective in her advice and communications, Michelle is a trusted advisor and a “safe pair of hands” for any dispute. A genuine pleasure to work with, and an incredible advocate and mentor for her colleagues, Michelle is also a wonderful asset to the CCW legal team. ’

‘The Corrs team works seamlessly across partners and staff and puts the client first. Corrs culturally are very strong, stable and easy to work with in difficult situations. On my most complex restructuring and special situation assignments, Corrs are an extension of my team and my firm’s success in delivering client outcomes are highly dependent on Corrs.’

‘Corrs is the leading restructuring, distressed debt and special situation legal advisory firm in Australia. The individuals are market-leading but more importantly, as a group, they are a market force and I owe much of my firm’s success to them.’

‘In Sam Delaney, Corrs have a star performer. He combines a practical commercial mind with exceptional legal knowledge and acumen.’

‘My experience with this team at Minters is that they are incredibly practical and responsive. Their advice was always pragmatic, bearing in mind the situation we were facing, while also being spot on from a legal perspective. Despite the stress involved for all parties, the Minters team remained a pleasure to deal with throughout. ’

‘I worked predominantly with Catherine Macrae and cannot speak highly enough of the support that she provided. She was a pleasure to work with.’

‘Minter Ellison is a well respect full service legal firm with a particularly talented insolvency and restructuring team in Melbourne and Sydney.’ 

‘Brendon Watkins is a tenacious legal advocate with a strong technical mind. He is a passionate advocate for his clients and has a wealth of insolvency and restructuring experience that he has built up over many years.’ 

‘Catherine Macrae is an emerging star in the industry. Highly regarded by the lenders and insolvency practitioners she is increasing sort after for her advice and advocacy.’

‘The Minters’ restructuring and insolvency team is known as one of the preeminent teams in the Melbourne market. The partners are known for high quality work and significant experience in complex matters. The team collaborates with other capabilities within Minters to bring a full service offering to its clients. They have excellent communication skills and we enjoy working with them.’

‘Catherine Macrae has excellent technical capabilities, strong commercial lens, excellent communication skills, client-focussed mindset.’

‘Scott Atkins is a senior experienced insolvency lawyer with unrivalled international expertise. The team provides exceptional dedication to insolvency law reform projects and always goes above and beyond on timing and quality of work products.’

‘Scott Atkins stands out for his dedication to delivering high quality work product on often aggressive timing requirements for insolvency law reform in numerous jurisdictions.’

‘Norton Rose Fulbright have a highly regarded insolvency and restructuring team. They understand the critical importance of timely, smart commercial advice and the importance of the role we play as trustees of other people’s money ’

‘Steven Palmer is someone I often turn to when it really matters. He is an extremely talented legal mind that extends well beyond pure insolvency and restructuring law.’ 

‘Kellie Link is a skilled litigator with excellent technical skills. Highly responsive and engaging.’

‘NRF’s restructuring and insolvency practice has expert knowledge in insolvency law as well as extensive experience in conducting large scale insolvency litigation. Their team has a depth of talent and resources that many other firms don’t.’ 

‘David Goldman and Seraijah Choi were a pleasure to deal with. They really cared about what I was going through with the proceedings initiated by a regulatory body and worked hard to keep me informed and provide guidance on what was required.’

‘Multi national practice with cross border issues ’

‘Ian Innes – a commercial approach with very good technical ability. Good to work with as either a client or on the otherside of a matter.’

‘Baker McKenzie has a strong restructuring and M&A practice with deep expertise in mining and energy projects across Australia. Baker McKenzie have an extensive network and so are in and around most of the major restructuring engagements.’

‘Ian Innes is an experienced restructuring lawyer with deep litigation experience that has been involved in ’

‘Full-service international practice.’

‘Ian Innes, a partner in Brisbane, has real intellectual depth and commits to each case 100%.’

‘Strong restructuring team with many years of experience.’

‘I have worked closely with Kon Tsiakis and Ryan Hennessey on insolvency matters and commercial litigation. They are respected in the fields of insolvency and dispute resolution. They are client-focused, service-oriented, work well in team with counsel. Dentons is a go-to firm for insolvency litigation.’ 

‘Scott Butler was very easy to deal with both via written advice, emails and phone calls. Scott gave very good background information on the landscape within which the matter was based which then helped us to better understand the legal context for his advice. The follow up advice and markups to our lending documents was also very efficient and practical, rather than markups for the sake of markups. To this, I have an enormous amount of respect for Scott’s efficiency and client-focussed approach.’

‘Adrian Lasky is a trusted and talent advisor insolvency, restructuring and dispute legal advisor who understands the critical importance of legal efficiency, commercial outcomes and value for the stakeholder he represents.’ 

‘Over the last 12 months I have had the opportunity to work with David Dickens. He is a very efficient and smart legal advisor that just gets things done and is a pleasure to work with.’

‘Wayne Kelcey is always on call. He is very commercial and practical with his advice, knows the industry in which we operate, and has a great ability to navigate complex problems.’ 

‘I believe the deep knowledge and understanding of the law of insolvency. This with a personal approach gave comfort and reassurance in a extremely tough time.’

‘We have worked with Scott Butler and his team. I can not speak more highly of the work they have done for us in a very difficult time. It was Scott ability to listen to our particular issues and have an appreciation of what has lead to the matters at hand. With this understanding of our background coupled with a deep legal knowledge lead to positive outcomes with our matters.’

‘Hall & Wilcox have a very strong restructuring & insolvency team across Australia. They are really the only firm that I can think of that have a strong presence across the whole country. The team is exceptionally strong in the restructuring & insolvency area. They present regularly at ARITA events and are fully up to date in law changes. They are all very pragmatic and commercial.’

‘Mark Petrucco is an exceptional practitioner. Mark is one of the few lawyers in the restructuring and insolvency space that are excellent lawyers as well as being commercial and pragmatic. Too many lawyers want to win the case, rather than get the best outcome for the client.’ Mark is the exception.

‘The responsiveness of and accessibility to the partners sets the Jones Day Team apart. They demonstrate commitment to deadlines. ’

‘They are passionate, technically sound legal and credit problem solvers with an ability to apply a commercial lens to their advice.’ 

‘Excellent connection across SE Asia and bringing the right people to solve the right problems. Seamless support across restructuring, corporate and mining. Works collaboratively with clients and cross-border and local lawyers.’ 

‘Naomi Moore is outstanding. She is commercial and always makes herself available. Naomi provides excellent legal insights in navigating cross-border issues and offers clear solutions and pathways, rather than simply identifying problems.’

‘This team’s significant technical knowledge and expertise in what is a very complex area of law is second to none. This is backed up by significant practical experience having advised on many such matters, which the team was great in bringing to bear on this engagement. Furthermore, the team’s availability and responsiveness from partner down was exemplary and rare in my experience, as was their willingness to understand client needs and be flexible to meet those needs as far as possible.’

‘The technical knowledge and expertise of Lionel Meehan was incredibly impressive, as was his ability to explain what were very complex technical legal principles and issues to different audiences with varying levels of understanding. His responsiveness and ability to make himself available to me throughout what was a very lengthy engagement was rare in my experience. ’

‘The DLA Piper Restructuring and Insolvency Team is a well resourced, highly capable and well connected team providing timely, high quality advice in high pressure situations. Led by Naomi Moore, the team have made themselves available at all times to discuss complex cross-border restructuring projects, ensuring that the advice is grounded in our broader Company’s corporate objectives. We have found the team’s dedication to serving our restructuring needs to have been second to none..’

‘Naomi Moore is highly knowledgeable, from both a technical legal side as well as from an industry and market perspective. Her accessibility and availability at all times of the week was reassuring, and her calm disposition and thorough examination of the issues from multiple perspectives allows us to be the beneficiary of timely, concise and actionable advice.’

‘Naomi Moore is an outstanding and brilliant lawyer with deep knowledge of restructuring and insolvency. She collaborates well with external counsel and is a formidable person to have in your corner in the negotiation room. She is meticulous and has amazing perseverance to ensure the deal is done.’

‘Andrew Chambers has good industry knowledge and understands bank requirements. Nicole Ward excellent in dealing with sensitive customer issue and understands bank requirements well.’

‘Excellent lead partner in Jason Opperman. He has outstanding commercial acumen, legal knowledge and practical ability. Good supporting team with some exceptional talents. Excellent relationship with insolvency professionals and others in the sector. Participated in some of the leading cases.’

‘Jason Opperman is absolutely outstanding. He is excellent at leading a team, and producing extremely effective outcomes. He has superb legal knowledge and is excellent and legal for as well as the management and leadership required in big litigation. He is good at gathering together an excellent team to provide exceptional service to clients, and briefs excellent accessible counsel when appropriate.’

‘A collaborative and seamless team. Always friendly and available to help. A growing practice attracting well-regarded lateral hires. ’

‘Jason Opperman is a hard working and highly intelligent lawyer. A terrific communicator, commercial, with high level collaboration skills. Alex Smith is whip smart who is quick to define the problem and the likely range of solutions. Very friendly, collaborative and an excellent communicator. ’

‘Andrew Chambers and Stephen Hume are the stand out partners of choice. Both with a wealth of experience and restructuring legal knowledge.’

‘Andrew Chambers is very responsive, focused on delivering outcomes that works for everyone, and technical but very commercial. He is excellent at distilling complex problems and willing to invest time where recovery of fees is uncertain. Very easy to deal with and is considered a trusted advisor.’

‘Engaging, accessible, takes the initiative, understands the legal nuances in a matter.’

‘Approachable, helpful, able to progress matters in an efficient way.’

‘Commercially minded and strategic.’

‘Excellent knowledge and experience. ’

‘The teams strength is its ability to deliver sound professional advice on a timely basis which also represents value for money. The team have a reputation in the market of being innovative and outcome driven.’

‘A strong presence in the Crypto industry sector and some great recent experience in with recent restructurings in the industry’

‘Joanne Hardwick and Michael Lhuede are the standout partners in the Piper Alderman team. A great partner team who complement each other in the market and on engagements. They have a wealth of restructuring and insolvency experience, particularly in complex mid-market matters.’

‘Pipers have an all-inclusive practice to cover just about all of my legal advisor needs in one practice. Their diversity and ability to source good practitioners at the one place is very powerful to me.’

‘Michael Lhuede is my go-to advisor for all forms of insolvency because of his details legal knowledge and general sensible tactical thought processes handling matters. Al also like the fact Michael Lhuede does most of his own appearances so briefing out to counsel is minimal so the process is cost efficient and practical.’

‘Detailed knowledge of insolvency and bankruptcy legal processes and procedures. Sound problem-solving to assist clients working through insolvency and bankruptcy issues.’

‘I have worked with Joanne Hardwick and Michael Lhuede, who are both technically excellent and commercially savvy. Piper Alderman represent exceptional value for money.’

‘They have diverse capabilities to advise across all relevant matters on complex transaction.’

‘Accessible and responsive with solid technical expertise ’

‘Very street-smart and strategic. If we need to walk away from a matter and cut our losses, they make that crystal clear. Whenever they’ve recommended that we stay in the game, they’ve been able to deliver on an outcome that exceeds our expectations. Deep industry experience leads to excellent understanding of where to find leverage over the other party in a dispute, and how to apply it.’

‘I have predominantly worked with Nick Curran. Nick is exceptional value for money. He is technically excellent, readily available and has strong commercial acumen.’

‘I only deal with the Adelaide office, specifically Michael O’Donnell and his team of highly qualified solicitors. I value their access, commerciality, knowledge and communication.’ 

‘Tier one restructuring practitioners now in a truly global firm. They have the ability to deal with large, complex and sophisticated restructurings coming up with novel solutions to problems faced. High quality team that is technically sound but more importantly commercially astute.’

‘Jillian McAleese and Timothy Sackar operate at the pointing end of restructuring and insolvency in Australia dealing in the most complex and sophisticated large restructurings in the market. Both know to develop and implement solutions to find a pathway through the most challenging of circumstances.’

‘The White & Case team, led by Tim Sackar and Jill McAleese are very focussed to their client needs. They understand the often need for speed to action and clarity of advice and communication.’

‘They provide high quality insolvency advice and are true trusted advisors who we prefer to engage.’ 

‘Tim Sackar and Jill McAleese are truly a great team.’

‘Tim Sackar is a highly respected senior restructuring lawyer in Australia who is always around the big complex matters. He is a please to deal with and have on your team when it really counts.’ 

‘Jillian McAleese is a highly skill and legal practitioner who cuts through the complex to find value adding solutions.’