About
Provided by Johnson Winter Slattery
Johnson Winter Slattery’s restructuring and insolvency expertise is called upon by practitioners and creditors in Australia’s largest and highest profile insolvency administrations. They are the only national firm with market-leading insolvency expertise that is free to act against trading banks. This sets them apart to achieve clients’ commercial objectives.
JWS have instructed on the largest provisional liquidation in Australia, Crown Group, the largest receivership in Western Australia, Griffin Coal, the largest receivership in South Australia, Revolution Roofing and its associated businesses. They continue to be legal advisors to the liquidators to Babcock & Brown, one of the largest liquidations in Australia. In addition, JWS regularly advises many major corporations in relation to their exposure to impecunious counter parties.
JWS is a go-to firm for reputationally sensitive legal concerns – being the most trusted advisors on “bet the company” matters for professional services firms.
They assist:
- administrators, receivers and liquidators in all aspects of their administration
- boards on disclosure and solvency issues, including Safe Harbour
- on restructuring, preparing and implementing deeds of company arrangement and negotiation of debt facilities and debt instruments
- on reconstructions and re-listing of companies
- secured and unsecured creditors on all aspects of enforcement and restructuring
- bidders for distressed assets
- on all aspects of insolvency litigation.
