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Restructuring/Insolvency - Australia

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Band 4

What the Team is Known For

K&L Gates's broad practice advises on corporate collapses and workouts, creditor restructures, administrations and liquidations, as well as debt recovery, including securities enforcement. The team is able to draw upon wider expertise from the firm's global presence and to scale up its offering to service multi-jurisdictional mandates. The firm acts for a broad clientele, including major domestic and international banks, trustees and asset purchasers as well as appointees. K&L Gates is active in a range of sectors including financial services, wealth management and construction.

Work Highlights

  • K&L Gates acted for EY as the liquidators of Air Vanuatu. The liquidation was conducted under Vanuatu insolvency legislation.

Strengths

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The firm's strengths include its specialist knowledge and client delivery.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
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They have a great depth of knowledge and a great bench. They were responsive and strategically effective and their ability to bring to bear specific industry experience was invaluable.

Restructuring/Insolvency respondent
Asia-Pacific

K&L Gates has been brilliant to deal with. The team was very commercial, provided great communication and acted quickly.

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Notable Practitioners

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Jason Opperman
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Eminent Practitioners
Jason Opperman is based in Sydney and is respected in the market for his long experience and dependability. He acts for banks, appointees and companies across a range of distressed situations, including informal and formal restructurings and liquidations.

Jason is an outstanding lawyer.

Jason Opperman is an extraordinary lawyer with the full range of skills and attributes. He is highly commercial and strategically sophisticated.

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Andrew Chambers
4
Band 4
Andrew Chambers acts for a variety of clients, including appointees, on a range of contentious insolvency issues, and offers particularly notable experience where tax-related insolvency matters are concerned.

Andrew is excellent to work. He is always contactable and technically very good.

Andrew Chambers provided great insight and a lot of support on our case.

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Jason Opperman
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Andrew Chambers
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