Don’t be stumped by insolvency questions. Let us bring it all together for you. In this comprehensive afternoon session, you will be guided on the most important issues in insolvency law. Delve into restructuring & you’ll get a helpful toolkit of options available to consider should your clients need it. Gain insights into voidable transactions and charges, an all-important update on recent cases plus explore in depth priorities in a liquidation, learning where to look for the potential traps. 

Presenters

Natalie Burrett, Partner| Restructuring, Calibre Partners
Like any outstanding achiever in our field, Natalie’s success has always been measured by her outcomes. What sets her apart, though, is her focus on people and relationships. Natalie’s ability to build rapport with a wide range of stakeholders goes a long way towards achieving successful results for clients. Personable and hands on, Natalie has sound business instincts sharpened by working on major restructuring assignments for over 10 years. Her track record of helping develop and successfully implement pragmatic responses to complex problems attests to Natalie’s commercial mindset and client focus.


Philip Shackleton, Partner, Meredith Connell
Phil is a lead partner in MC’s Insolvency, Recoveries and Enforcement Group and one of New Zealand’s most innovative and experienced banking, finance and insolvency litigators. He and his team act for both debtors and creditors, including companies and directors facing recovery demands, private insolvency practitioners and the Official Assignee. For 18 years, Phil has had lead roles in some of New Zealand’s most important insolvency cases, including the precedent-setting Debut Homes litigation, the first time the Supreme Court considered the issue of director’s duties. Major clients have included businesses in the construction, hospitality and tourism, dairy, forestry, and residential and commercial property sectors. Phil's particular expertise includes receiverships, liquidations, security enforcement, priority disputes, shareholder disputes, banking litigation and debt recovery.


Paul Dalkie, Barrister
Paul Dalkie has practised as a barrister for more than 24 years in New Zealand and Australia. He appears in and has appeared in a wide range of civil and commercial cases and arbitrations. Prior to becoming a barrister he practised as a solicitor in Queensland for more than 8 years including at two global firms Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and Cannan & Peterson, Sly & Weigall (now Norton Rose Fullbright). He has appeared and argued cases and conducted trials and appeals at all Court's levels, including the Privy Council. His practice has particular emphasis on contract disputes of all kinds, and corporate law, especially insolvency and shareholders and directors disputes. He is admitted to practice in New Zealand, Queensland and Victoria, and in the Federal Courts of Australia.


Jane Innes Jones, Counsel, Mayne Wetherell
Jane has extensive experience acting for domestic and foreign lenders and borrowers across a range of banking and finance transactions. She has specialist knowledge of syndicated and club lending structures and is recognised for her experience in restructuring and insolvency matters. Jane has a unique understanding of lender credit requirements having spent time first in a loan execution role for a major New Zealand trading bank, responsible for arranging and structuring loans across its institutional and corporate loan book (including Sustainability-Linked Loans), and most recently as head of its Syndications and Agency business.


Alex MacDuff, Partner, Russell McVeagh
Alex has broad experience advising corporates, trustees and agents, banks, alternative capital providers, other financial institutions and insolvency practitioners on restructurings, stressed and distressed refinancings and insolvencies.  Alex recently returned to Russell McVeagh after spending a number of years working in London for Allen & Overy's Global Restructuring Group, where he advised on a number of high-profile cross-border and domestic matters.