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NSW

James D’Alessandro

Solicitor

King & Wood Mallesons

James D’Alessandro is a solicitor in the dispute resolution and litigation team in King & Wood [...]

Aaron Kam

Senior Associate

Ashurst

Aaron is a Senior Associate in the Restructuring, Special Situations and Insolvency Group at Ashurst. Aaron’s [...]

Andrew Khallouf

Manager

PwC

Andrew is a Manager in the Business Restructuring Services practice of PwC. Andrew has been in the [...]

Riley McDermott

Solicitor

Thynne + Macartney

Riley McDermott is an Associate with Thynne + Macartney in Brisbane. A member of the Commercial [...]

Brigitte Lonie

Associate Director

KordaMentha

Seraijah Choi

Associate

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Seraijah (Raia) is an insolvency, financial restructuring and commercial litigation lawyer based in Brisbane. Her experience [...]

Annabelle Foster

Analyst

Deloitte

James Bentley

Senior Associate

Queensland Treasury Corporation

James is a Senior Associate (Clients Division) at Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC), working with a variety [...]

Oliver Donoghue

Senior Associate, Group Credit Structuring

Commonwealth Bank

Oliver is a Senior Analyst within Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Group Credit Structuring department, which covers [...]

Hannah McConalogue

Analyst

KPMG

Walter Jones

Senior Analyst

McGrathNicol

Iryna Sakhatovska

Senior Analyst

Deloitte

Senior Analyst in the Turnaround & Restructuring team with a focus on business improvement and operational [...]

Marco Bozzetto

Director

FTI Consulting

Marco is a Director in the Turnaround and Restructuring team at FTI Consulting. He has more [...]

Simon Forshaw

Director Lending Services

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

Simon is an experienced banking professional with 14 years restructuring experience with across Australia, Pacific and [...]

Daniel Howes

Senior Executive Analyst

KordaMentha

Daniel has over four years’ experience in organisational transformation and turnaround across multiple industries. Starting his [...]

Stacie Starcevich

Solicitor

King & Wood Mallesons

Stacie is a solicitor in the King & Wood Mallesons Dispute Resolution Team within the general [...]

Drew Forbes

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Joslyn Jaekel-Smith

Agribusiness Manager - Lending Services

ANZ

I work at ANZ in the Lending Services Agribusiness team, managing customers from WA & SA [...]

Sarah McDougall

Associate

Resource Capital Funds

Sarah is an associate at Resource Capital Funds (RCF), an international private equity firm which specialises [...]

Bernadette Benedict

Associate Director

ANZ

Bernadette is a solutions focused Banker with 15 years banking experience across a range of financial [...]

Krystal Kimeklis

Relationship Manager – Property Services QLD

Macquarie Bank

Jenna Scott

Special Counsel

Norton Rose Fulbright

Jenna Scott is a specialist insolvency and restructuring lawyer based in Brisbane with significant litigious experience [...]

Sophie Drake

Senior Counsel - Australia

Resource Capital Funds

Senior Counsel for an international private equity fund manager. Experience in diligencing, making, and maintaining medium [...]

Sam Broughton

Associate Director

KordaMentha

Sam is an Associate Director at KordaMentha and has over 8 years of experience in restructuring, [...]

Brooke McCluskey

Manager

Ernst & Young

Brooke is a Manager at EY in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services team, which she transitioned [...]

Tom Birch

Partner

Cor Cordis

Previously with Ferrier Hodgson and KPMG, Tom has more than 19 years’ experience in assisting businesses [...]

Alison McLaughlin

Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

John Poulsen

Special Counsel

Hamilton Locke

John Poulsen is a corporate restructuring, insolvency and commercial litigation lawyer based in Brisbane. John has [...]

Michael Damevski

Lawyer

Clayton Utz

Michael is a lawyer in the Restructuring & Finance team in Clayton Utz’s Melbourne office. Michael [...]

Nicholas Jordan

Senior Associate, Operations and Deal Execution

Gordon Brothers

Michael Maconochie

Lawyer

Hall & Wilcox

Michael practices in commercial litigation with a primary focus on insolvency and restructuring. Michael has provided [...]

Mitchell Rosario

Associate

Norton Rose Fulbright

Mitchell is a restructuring and insolvency lawyer based in Perth. Mitchell’s principle practice is insolvency and [...]

Andrew Knowles

National Segment Head – Insolvency

Macquarie Bank

As the head of Insolvency segment with Macquarie Business Banking, Andrew Knowles brings a wealth of [...]

Carla Fairweather

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Carla is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment, providing and implementing [...]

Andy Collins

Senior Manager

PwC

I am a Senior manager in the PwC restructuring team. I started my restructuring journey in Deloitte in [...]

Tom Hogarth

Senior Manager

BDO

Tom is a Senior Manager in the Debt and Special Situations Advisory team at BDO specialising [...]

Megan Lowe

Lawyer

Gilbert + Tobin

Megan Lowe is a Restructuring + Insolvency lawyer in Gilbert + Tobin’s Melbourne office. After graduating [...]

Neil Hayward

Partner

I work with companies in financial distress or requiring a turnaround. I develop and then implement [...]

David Hickey

Senior Associate - Deals & Origination

Gordon Brothers

David is a member of Gordon Brothers’ Deals and Origination team in Australia, responsible for providing [...]

Alicia Salvo

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Bianca Fernandez

Lawyer

Clayton Utz

Alinta Kemeny

Partner

Ashurst

Alinta Kemeny is a partner in Ashurst’s restructuring and special situations team. Alinta has expertise in [...]

Laura Anderson

Senior Associate

McInnes Wilson Lawyers

Laura is a Senior Associate in the McInnes Wilson Lawyers Disputes & Insolvency team. Laura is [...]

Mimi Green

Senior Executive Analyst

KordaMentha

Rebecca Wilson

Associate Director

Ernst & Young

Rebecca is an Associate Director at EY in the Strategy and Transactions practice, specifically the Turnaround [...]

Aidan Gordon

Director

Deloitte

Aidan is a Director in Deloitte’s Restructuring Services practice based in Perth. Aidan has over 12 [...]

Jessica Jedynak

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Jessica is a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment of FTI Consulting. Jessica [...]

Andrew Boys

Senior Manager

McGrathNicol

Andrew is a Senior Manager at McGrathNicol and has over 7 years of restructuring and advisory [...]

Zoe Kaesehagen

King & Wood Mallesons

Zoe is a solicitor in the Banking & Finance team at King & Wood Mallesons. She [...]

Jonathan Chee

Senior Director

FTI Consulting

Simon Chiou

Senior Manager, Group Credit Structuring

Commonwealth Bank Australia

Simon is a Senior Manager within Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Group Credit Structuring department, which covers [...]

Sera Erikozu

Senior Associate

Norton Rose Fulbright

Sera Erikozu is a banking and insolvency lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia. Sera’s practice focuses [...]

Taline Chater

Special Counsel

Minter Ellison

Ann Watson

Special Counsel

Hall & Wilcox

Ann is a Special Counsel at Hall & Wilcox, Brisbane and has particular focus on restructuring, [...]

Daniel Schweickle

Investment Manager

Remagen Capital

Gavin Rakoczy

Partner

Baker & McKenzie

Gavin Rakoczy is a restructuring and insolvency (R&I) and disputes lawyer with close to 20 years’ [...]

Alison Robertson

Partner

HWL Ebsworth

For more than 20 years Alison has specialised in all aspects of insolvency, reconstruction and recovery. [...]

Angus Dick

Principal

Faraday Associates

Peter Smith

Partner

Johnson Winter Slattery

Peter has 27 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate turnaround, reconstruction and insolvency. He has [...]

Paul Apathy

Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills

Paul has extensive experience advising creditors, companies, insolvency practitioners and investors in respect of distressed situations. [...]

Nikki Smythe

Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills

Nikki is a finance Partner in the Sydney office of Herbert Smith Freehills. Nikki is an [...]

Margaret Fong

Senior Associate

Herbert Smith Freehills

Margaret is a Senior Associate in the Restructuring Turnaround and Insolvency team at Herbert Smith Freehills. [...]

Monty Loughlin

Senior Associate

Hamilton Locke

Monty is a Senior Associate at Hamilton Locke and is experienced in advising alternative lenders and [...]

Nicholas Edwards

Partner

Hamilton Locke

Nicholas is Head of Hamilton Locke’s Restructuring and Insolvency practice. He specialises in advising on contentious [...]

Zina Edwards

Partner

Hamilton Locke

Zina is a founding partner of law firm Hamilton Locke. She is a finance and restructuring [...]

Sam Dundas

Partner

King & Wood Mallesons - PERTH, WA

Sam is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over 15 years’ experience advising distressed companies, particularly [...]

Peter Bowden

Partner

Gilbert + Tobin

Peter is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Banking + Infrastructure group. He specialises in front-end [...]

Alisha Kennedy

Principal

Talbot Sayer

Alisha heads up the Disputes team at Talbot Sayer and has broad experience in commercial litigation [...]

Scott Guthrie

Partner

Thomson Geer

Scott Guthrie draws on his more than 25 years’ of expertise to advise clients in the [...]

Melissa Ferreira

Senior Associate

Clayton Utz

Melissa Ferreira advises on complex commercial litigation and large corporate insolvencies, restructures, and PPSR disputes for [...]

Timothy Sackar

Partner

Clayton Utz

With a strong international practice, Timothy Sackar specialises in business restructuring, distressed investing and insolvency. He [...]

Jennifer Ball

Partner

Clayton Utz

Jennifer is currently a Director of the National Board of the Turnaround Management Association Australia (TMAA) [...]

Scott Sharry

Partner

Clayton Utz

Scott is an experienced commercial litigator and insolvency practitioner having acted for a variety of private [...]

Maria O’Brien

Partner

Baker & McKenzie

Maria is the head of the Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) practice in Baker McKenzie’s Australian offices, [...]

Christopher Pearce

Partner

Blackwall Legal

Chris has experience across a diverse range of practice areas, encompassing listed company reconstructions, corporate structuring, [...]

Michael Sloan

Partner

Ashurst

Michael’s experience includes acting for liquidators, administrators and affected creditors in major insolvency administrations including Waterford [...]

Meredith Bennett

Partner

Ashurst

Meredith Bennett is a partner in Ashurst dispute resolution practice Meredith has a broad practice which [...]

Jason Salman

Partner

Ashurst

Jason is a partner in the Perth office of Ashurst in its Restructuring and Special Situations [...]

Camilla Clemente

Partner

Ashurst

Aiden Hsu

Senior Executive, Finance & Advisory - VIC

Pickles

Aiden brings 17 years of national and international experience, gained from both the professional services industry [...]

Anna Schwartz

Special Counsel

Gilbert + Tobin

Anna is a Senior Lawyer in the Gilbert +Tobin Restructuring and Insolvency Team with over ten [...]

Kevin Higgins

Executive Director

Vantage Performance

Everything I do is aimed at improving the rate of business success. I commenced my career [...]

Rob Brauer

Partner

McGrathNicol

I am a turnaround and restructuring specialist, as well as a registered liquidator, with over 15 [...]

Mark Holland

Partner

McGrathNicol

Mark has more than 13 years experience as a restructuring, turnaround and financial advisory specialist. He [...]

David Hardy

Partner

KPMG

David has more than 10 years’ experience in Australia and the United Kingdom partnering with clients [...]

Clint Joseph

Director

KPMG

Clint is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over 17 years of experience delivering corporate restructuring [...]

Gayle Dickerson

Partner

KPMG

Gayle has over 15 years of experience in both the UK and Australia in corporate turnaround, [...]

Jason Preston

Partner

McGrathNicol

Jason is the Chairman of McGrathNicol and has more than 20 years of restructuring and insolvency [...]

Matthew Caddy

Partner

McGrathNicol

Matthew is a highly regarded restructuring and business improvement specialist with 25 years of experience helping [...]

Jonathan Henry

Partner

McGrathNicol

Jonathan is a corporate advisor with over 15 years professional experience advising boards and debt/equity investors [...]

Chris Giddens

Partner

KPMG

Chris is a Partner in KPMG’s Deal Advisory team in Brisbane. He joined the Australian practice [...]

Sebastian Hams

Partner

KordaMentha

Sebastian has twenty years experience in commerce, business advisory, restructuring and recovery, with involvement in a [...]

Chris Martin

Partner

KordaMentha

Chris is one of Australia’s leading transformation, turnaround and corporate renewal advisors. He is a qualified [...]

Samantha Findley

Managing Director

Gordon Brothers

Samantha oversees Gordon Brothers’ lending and investment opportunities across all industries in Australia, leading transactions from [...]

Paul Hewson

Director

KordaMentha

Paul is a Director at KordaMentha and has over ten years’ experience working on formal and [...]

Andrew Reed

Executive Director

KordaMentha

Andrew has a collaborative style to build relationships to gain an understanding of the needs of [...]

Hayden Schreurs

Manager

McGrathNicol

Hayden is a Manager at McGrathNicol and has been in the CA profession for more than [...]

Matthew Chivers

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Matthew Chivers has over 17 years of commercial, corporate advisory and turnaround experience. He has led [...]

Joseph Hansell

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Joseph Hansell is a specialist in corporate recovery, restructuring, and turnaround management in Australia advising corporates, [...]

Stewart McCallum

Partner

Ernst & Young

Stewart’s experience spans corporate restructuring and turnaround, insolvency and forensic accounting. Stewart is a Chartered Accountant, [...]

David Kennedy

Partner

Ernst & Young

David is an EY partner and leads the Sydney Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy team. He has [...]

Michael Lawless

Director

Ernst & Young

Michael is a Director in EY’s Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy team in Sydney. Michael has over [...]

Tim Norman

Partner

Deloitte

Tim is a partner of Financial advisory with nearly 20 years’ corporate reorganization and restructuring experience. [...]

Jacinta Nielsen

Partner

Deloitte

Doug Kay

Senior Manager

McGrathNicol

Doug has 10 years professional experience working in corporate restructuring. Doug joined McGrathNicol in 2018, previously [...]

Richard Hughes

Partner

Deloitte

Richard is the Queensland Restructuring Services Lead Partner. He specialises in corporate insolvency and business turnaround [...]

Marcus Derwin

Managing Director

R Cubed Group

Marcus is a highly experienced corporate executive focused on sustainable business improvement. Addressing business performance issues, [...]

John Nestel

Partner

Faraday Associates

John co-founded Faraday in 2018 having retired from the partnership at Herbert Smith Freehills. John had [...]

Miki Cvijetic

Investment Director

Boab Capital Group

Miki is an Investment Director at Boab Capital Group/Helmsman Capital and has ten years of experience, [...]

Merrick Howes

Founder & Managing Partner

Aviron Investment Management

Merrick is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Aviron Investment Management, a newly established special situations [...]

Jeffrey Largier

Investment Director

Allegro Funds

Jeffrey has over ten years of experience in investment banking and private equity. Jeffrey commenced his [...]

Christopher Koeck

Investment Director

Allegro Funds

Chris is an Investment Manager at Allegro Funds which is a private equity fund manager investing [...]

Khosrow Kyanian

Associate

Allegro Funds

Khosrow is an Associate Director at Allegro Funds which is a private equity fund manager investing [...]

Jane Starkins

Director - Corporate Bank

ANZ

An innovative financial services leader with hands on experience in relationship and credit management, having led [...]

Kate White

Managing Director & General Counsel, GLAS Australia

GLAS Australia

Kate joined Global Loan Agency Services Australia (GLAS Australia) on its inception in the Australia market [...]

Ben Gibson

Head of Advisory

Pickles

Ben Gibson heads up the Advisory Team for Pickles Nationally. Ben has over 25 years of [...]

Lucy Gao

Senior Vice President

Houlihan Lokey

Lucy is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring group. She focuses on complex restructuring, capital [...]

Ryan Eagle

Partner

KPMG

Ryan is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over two decades of experience delivering corporate restructuring [...]

Ian Sutherland

Senior Manager

KPMG

Ian is a Director with KPMG Australia based in Sydney with over 12 years’ experience in [...]

Chris Turvey

Team Leader Banking Recovery

Suncorp

David Tozer

Founder & Managing Director

Tozer and Co

Mr. Tozer is the Managing Director of Tozer and Co. a family office with multiple interests [...]

Siba Diqer

Investment Manager

Litigation Capital Management

Siba is an investment manager in LCM’s Melbourne office with over 13 years’ experience in corporate, [...]

Rick Drury

Deputy Chief Risk & Assurance Officer

La Trobe financial

Rick is a globally experienced Finance Industry senior leader with proven capabilities to deliver outstanding turnaround [...]

Paul Shew

Head of Debt Advisory and Restructuring

Rothschild & Co

Paul heads the Debt Advisory and Restructuring team at Rothschild & Co in Australia. The team [...]

State & NextGen Committees

NSW

NextGen Committee Member

James D’Alessandro

NextGen Committee Member

Aaron Kam

NextGen Committee Member

Andrew Khallouf

NextGen Committee Member

Riley McDermott

NextGen Committee Member

Brigitte Lonie

NextGen Committee Member

Seraijah Choi

NextGen Committee Member

Annabelle Foster

Vice Chair

James Bentley

NextGen Committee Member

Oliver Donoghue

NextGen Committee Member

Hannah McConalogue

NextGen Committee Member

Walter Jones

NextGen Committee Member

Iryna Sakhatovska

NextGen Committee Member

Marco Bozzetto

Regional Committee Member

Simon Forshaw

Regional Committee Member

Daniel Howes

NextGen Committee Member

Stacie Starcevich

Regional Committee Member

Drew Forbes

NextGen Committee Member

Joslyn Jaekel-Smith

NextGen Committee Member

Sarah McDougall

Bernadette Benedict

NextGen Committee Member

Krystal Kimeklis

Regional Committee Member

Jenna Scott

Regional Committee Member

Sophie Drake

NextGen Committee Member

Sam Broughton

Chair

Brooke McCluskey

Regional Committee Member

Tom Birch

NextGen Committee Member

Alison McLaughlin

Regional Committee Member

John Poulsen

NextGen Committee Member

Michael Damevski

NextGen Committee Member

Nicholas Jordan

NextGen Committee Member

Michael Maconochie

NextGen Committee Member

Mitchell Rosario

Regional Committee Member

Andrew Knowles

Regional Committee Member

Carla Fairweather

NextGen Committee Member

Andy Collins

NextGen Committee Member

Tom Hogarth

Chair

Megan Lowe

Regional Committee Member

Neil Hayward

Regional Committee Member

David Hickey

Regional Committee Member