Sean Gollin

Practice Areas

Sean is an experienced commercial litigation lawyer whose expertise spans a broad range of commercial and contract disputes. He has a leading reputation for both his litigation and general advisory practice relating to receivership and insolvency law, security enforcement, restructuring, and corporate recovery.

As a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer, Sean advises secured and unsecured creditors, lending syndicates, insolvency practitioners, corporates, boards, and other stakeholders, and regularly acts for banks and all major insolvency advisory firms. He is often called upon to advise on directors’ duties, provide front end structuring and insolvency advice, security reviews, and general commercial advice.

Sean’s general commercial litigation practice spans property, shareholder, contracts, cross-border, trusts, and product liability disputes as well as security enforcement, banking litigation, creditors remedies, freezing orders, and other emergency relief.

Sean has acted on many significant restructuring and insolvency transactions, including Central North Island Forest Partnership, Crafar Farms, Kawarau Falls, Reef Shipping, Solid Energy, Yarrows Bakers, Torchlight LP, Wynyard Group, Dick Smith, CBL Insurance, and Sacred Hill Vineyards. He was sought after to advise on New Zealand’s COVID-19 relief package for directors and businesses facing potential insolvency due to the global pandemic.