Clayton Utz, Restructuring/Insolvency | Chambers Asia-Pacific Profile

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The Clayton Utz team, led by Nick Poole, excels in traditional insolvency work, financial restructuring, operational turnaround, workouts, strategic planning, and risk mitigation.

Our national team, recognised for its extensive industry knowledge and depth of experience, is highly active in the distressed turnaround, restructuring, and workouts space. We have handled some of the most challenging and innovative insolvency matters across various industries in Australia. Our scalable practice group ensures that we can address engagements of any size. We remain at the forefront of significant restructuring and insolvency matters, developing strategies to capitalise on opportunities and minimise insolvency impacts.

Our strength lies in using insolvency tools and experience to generate positive outcomes, offering truly commercial advice. We collaborate seamlessly with other practice groups within the firm, partnering to maximise opportunities during insolvency. Our expertise encompasses working with creditors, debtors, banks, hedge funds, and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of corporate distress, insolvency, and recovery.

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Restructuring/Insolvency - Australia

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Clayton Utz's comprehensive national offering maintains its longstanding strength in contentious insolvency. The law firm also handles restructuring and workouts and acts for both lenders and corporate borrowers with regard to financial restructurings and distressed financing. The team advises banks, insolvency firms, investment funds, corporate clients and government clients on high-profile litigation and restructures. Clayton Utz has a broad range of industry expertise, with a particular focus on the construction and property development, retail, energy and natural resources, and financial services sectors.

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Work Highlights

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Clayton Utz advised FTX Trading in relation to the voluntary administration of two of its Australian subsidiaries.

Strengths

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The depth of the team is excellent; partners, senior associates and juniors are all responsive and knowledgeable.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
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The depth of the team is excellent; partners, senior associates and juniors are all responsive and knowledgeable.

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Asia-Pacific

Notable Practitioners

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Maria O'Brien

Band 1

Maria O'Brien is renowned for her expertise in relation to substantial insolvency litigation proceedings and regularly acts for administrators and liquidators.

Maria O'Brien has a great depth of knowledge in the area.

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Cameron Belyea

Band 2

Cameron Belyea is based in Perth and is particularly active in the energy and natural resources sector, regularly advising administrators and corporate boards on restructurings, including deeds of company arrangement and safe harbour planning.

He is a well-recognised practitioner.

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Nick Poole

Head of Restructuring/Insolvency

Band 2

Nick Poole is recognised for his experience operating on non-contentious restructuring matters. He is regularly instructed by insolvency appointees such as liquidators and voluntary administrators as well as corporate borrowers on substantial restructurings in various sectors, including retail, construction and energy.

Nick is one of our go-to service providers, and is always available, responsive and willing to make decisions quickly.

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Paul James

Band 2

Paul James is a well-regarded practitioner who regularly acts across a wide range of insolvency matters, such as voluntary administrations and liquidations, for a variety of clients, including banks and insolvency firms.

Paul is very well-known in the industry, is really commercial and straight on top of legal issues. I couldn't have asked for more.

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Jennifer Ball

Band 3

Jennifer Ball maintains a broad and highly regarded practice in the restructuring and insolvency space. She acts for clients in sectors ranging from mining and industrial manufacture to construction on a variety of significant matters, including distressed financing and shareholder litigation.

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Katie Higgins

Band 4

Katie Higgins is based in Sydney and represents funds and other creditors as well as corporates in a variety of mandates involving workouts and sales of distressed businesses, attracting particular recognition for her debt restructuring work.

Katie is terrific to work with. She's a rising star partner who's amazingly adaptable.

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