KAREN PETCH, BARRISTER, NEW CHAMBERS
Karen is a barrister at New Chambers in Sydney. She has specialised experience in Corporations Act matters, particularly insolvency and cases involving detailed transaction structures and financial products. She regularly acts for and advises financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, companies, individuals and government on a full spectrum of domestic and cross-border insolvency issues. Prior to coming to the Bar, Karen was a solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP in London and New York, where she acted for creditors in the administration of Lehman Brothers International Europe and advised insolvency practitioners, corporates and financial institutions in relation to insolvency issues and pre-insolvency structuring.
Prior to that, she was a tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Robert McDougall of the Supreme Court of NSW (Equity Division) and a lawyer at Minter Ellison, Sydney, specialising in leveraged finance and restructuring.
She holds a Master of Corporate Law (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, a Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
In 2016 she was awarded a Jennings Prize by the University of Cambridge for first class performance in the examinations. In 2018 she was awarded the Christopher Gee QC Memorial Prize for achieving the highest result on the NSW Bar Practice Course.
She was called to the Bar in New South Wales in 2017, admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2014 and admitted to practice in Australia in 2010.
Karen is a barrister at New Chambers in Sydney. She has specialised experience in Corporations Act matters, particularly insolvency and cases involving detailed transaction structures and financial products. She regularly acts for and advises financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, companies, individuals and government on a full spectrum of domestic and cross-border insolvency issues. Prior to coming to the Bar, Karen was a solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP in London and New York, where she acted for creditors in the administration of Lehman Brothers International Europe and advised insolvency practitioners, corporates and financial institutions in relation to insolvency issues and pre-insolvency structuring.
Prior to that, she was a tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Robert McDougall of the Supreme Court of NSW (Equity Division) and a lawyer at Minter Ellison, Sydney, specialising in leveraged finance and restructuring.
She holds a Master of Corporate Law (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, a Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
In 2016 she was awarded a Jennings Prize by the University of Cambridge for first class performance in the examinations. In 2018 she was awarded the Christopher Gee QC Memorial Prize for achieving the highest result on the NSW Bar Practice Course.
She was called to the Bar in New South Wales in 2017, admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2014 and admitted to practice in Australia in 2010.