Insolvency and Restructuring
The Hunt & Hunt insolvency team has built a sound reputation for providing timely advice to insolvency practitioners and major creditors.
Hunt & Hunt has one of the strongest insolvency practices in the country. Our considerable experience includes security enforcement, insolvency administration and debt recovery across all Australian courts and jurisdictions.
We help clients develop practical, commercial solutions regarding corporate administrations, liquidations and receiverships, and can assist with business recovery, reconstruction and restructuring strategies.
Hunt & Hunt's national team helps clients recover and resolve difficult or disputed debts. We offer legal insolvency services in relation to debt recovery, security enforcement and all aspects of insolvency administration.
We help our clients enforce residential and commercial mortgage defaults, recover arrears and obtain freezing orders.
Debt litigation services for organisations of all sizes
In 2005, Hunt & Hunt became the only private law firm appointed by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to provide national debt litigation services. We were reappointed to this position in 2010. We conduct a large number of bankruptcy and winding-up matters on behalf of the ATO.
To assist all of our debt litigation clients, we draw on our experience and the same business processes we use to assist the ATO. This ensures our clients have their matters resolved efficiently and cost-effectively. It's important to us that our clients receive the same level of meticulous, cost-conscious service, regardless of size.
Protecting your Interests
In the complex circumstances surrounding insolvencies, we work quickly and accurately to protect clients' interests and provide advice on:
- Bankruptcy
- Corporate reconstructions and restructuring
- Creditors' claims
- Cross-border insolvency
- Directors' duties
- Distress debt trading and acquisitions
- Enforcements
- Investigating accountants' reports
- Liquidations
- Negotiations with secured creditors
- Preference claims
- Receiverships
- Recovery strategies
- Securities
- Turnaround and workouts
- Voidable transactions
- Voluntary administration.
Members of our team sit on the External Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Our practitioners closely monitor national and international industry developments, through membership with the Insolvency Practitioners Association, the Insolvency Committee of the Law Council of Australia, and the International Women's Insolvency Reconstruction Confederation.
Latest Insights
Subrogation Under Section 560 of the Corporations Act
Dalma No.1 Pty Ltd (“Dalma”) went into administration with employee-related liabilities of about $600,000. Background After the administrators were appointed a related company, Dalma Construction Pty Ltd (“DC”), made substantial payments (totalling about $160,000) in…
High Court Appeal: Willmott Forests
The disclaiming of leasehold interests by liquidators On 10 May 2013, the High Court granted special leave to appeal the Victorian Court of Appeal’s decision in Willmott Forests Ltd (Receivers and Managers appointed) (in liquidation)…
A Corporate Trustee in Liquidation May Not Retain the Power of Sale
It is well established that if a trustee company goes into liquidation then: The company retains: its right to indemnity out of the assets of the trust for liabilities incurred on behalf of the trust…
