Personal Experience

Lauren is a Senior Associate in Hunt & Hunt’s litigation and dispute resolution team. She acts for public and private sector clients and practises primarily in the areas of insolvency, debt recovery, commercial disputes and special inquiries.  She has a particular interest in litigation strategy and problem solving.

Lauren is a skilled advocate and has also shared her knowledge of insolvency law and practice as a panellist, presenter and public sector secondee at the Fair Work Ombudsman, where she provided training in practice management and model litigant obligations to its lawyers.

Lauren’s insolvency experience includes:

• Day-to-day conduct of a long-running and complex matter acting for the liquidator of Circular Quay Restaurants Pty Ltd pursuing recovery of cash misappropriated from the company and paid to members of the Obeid family.
• Advising the receiver in an ongoing major cross-border receivership arising out of one of the largest ever pyramid schemes.
• Appearing in over 50 winding up applications in which administrators are appointed and seek an adjournment pursuant to s440A(2) of the Corporations Act.
• Acting in various Corporations Act claims concerning insolvent trading, related party loans, voidable transactions and unfair preference claims, including ‘mothership’ proceedings.

Lauren is also experienced in acting for educational institutions in sensitive matters involving allegations of historical child sexual abuse.  She worked on several Royal Commission case studies and has also acted in a number of personal injury claims, all of which were resolved prior to hearing.