Debt restructuring procedures aim to achieve a compromise between the needs of the debtor and its creditors. It is common for business to be conducted using group structures with related parties potentially exposing themselves to broad claims upon the debtor’s insolvency, usually in a false...

This article discusses the implications of the High Court of Australia's decision in Sons of Gwalia Ltd vs. Margaretic. That decision found that shareholders who claimed damages for misrepresentation under statutory misleading or deceptive conduct provisions were able to claim status as...

Australia's corporate insolvency regime strives to provide flexible measures that allow stakeholders of a financially distressed company to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. As with all insolvency laws, it is possible to bind dissenting creditors to the will of the majority in resolving...