2018 NATIONAL PRACTICAL ​BANKRUPTCY CONFERENCE
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Monday, 3 December 2018 - Wesley Centre, Sydney

2019 ANNUAL PRACTICAL INSOLVENCY CONFERENCE AND DINNER
25 - 26 March 2019 - L'Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney

The Conference included interactive talks and workshops over
two days focussing intensively on the key issues bankruptcy professionals encounter.  No other event provides personal insolvency practitioners with the opportunity to gain exposure to such relevant experience and expertise.

Conference Program

The Conference included interactive talks and workshops over
two days focussing intensively on the key issues bankruptcy professionals encounter.  No other event provides personal insolvency practitioners with the opportunity to gain exposure to such relevant experience and expertise.

Conference Program

​TOPICS INCLUDE:

• The One Year Bankruptcy Regime & Insolvency Law Reform Act – Where are we at, are you prepared?
• AFSA regulation, remuneration, liaison with ASIC, ARITA’s role and other regulation of Trustees
• Funding Recoveries in Bankruptcy  
• Voidable Transactions
• The Famous Family Law Experts In Conversation
• Reviews of Recent Decisions Impacting on Practitioners 
• Asset Protection structures under the microscope: SMSFs & Superannuation, Estate Planning, Bankruptcy Estates, & Death Benefits 
• Section 130 Warrants For Search And Seizure And Other Avenues to Extract Information 
• Objections To Discharge And Pre-Referrals/ Offence Referrals 
• Income, And Income Contributions: Case Round-Up And Section 139L Notices 
• Taking Possession Of And Dealing With Property

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SPEAKERS:
John Melluish, Bankruptcy Trustee - Conference Chair
Bob Cruickshanks, Personal Insolvency Consultant
Sally Nash, O'Neill Partners, Lawyers
Stephen Mullette, Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
Michael Murray, Murrays Legal
Peter Harrison, Thomson Geer
David Topp, Barrister
Megan Zhou, O'Neill Partners Lawyers
Stephen Bonnor, Australian Financial Security Authority
​Michael Lhuede, Piper Alderman
Giles Woodgate, Woodgate & Co
Doug Whelan, Litigation Funding Solutions
Kirsten Farmer, DWF Australia
Michelle Castle, Barrister
Steven Golledge, Barrister

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Calculating & Approval of Remuneration
• **Stop Press** Restricting Creditor Voting Rights
• Attacking (or defending!) Subrogation Claims
• State Of The Market Panel – Connecting with and perspectives from the  Non-Bank Lenders
• Using Barnes v Addy To Attack Phoenix Transactions
• The High Court on Holding DOCAs
• Claims Against Directors
• Dealing With Claims For Special Purpose/Quistclose & Express Trusts
• Intellectual Property & Insolvency
• Insolvency & Managing Information -  Data Protection &
• The Privacy Act
• Selling Assets Without A Secured Creditor’s Consent – Caledon Coal Group Case Study
• Voidable Transactions
• Regulator /Legislator Panel – ASIC, AFSA, FEG
• ILRA Review Update on any new developments
• 7 year PPSR Review
• Personal Insolvency Update for Corporates
• Special Purpose Liquidators

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SPEAKERS:
Chaired by: Richard Fisher AM General Counsel, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Office of General Counsel, University of Sydney
Andrea Beatty, Piper Alderman
Bridget Slocum, Victorian Bar
Camilla Clemente, Ashurst
Chris Prestwich, Allens
Danielle Funston, Maddocks
David Watts, La Trobe University
Geoff Green, Ecosse Capital Partners
Glen Cussen, Cussen Advisory
Joseph Hansell, FTI Consulting
Jason Harris, University of Sydney
Henry Carr, Australian Government, Department of Jobs and Small Business Chambers
Karen Petch, New Chambers
Matt Aubrey, Gordon Brothers
​Michelle Castle, 13th Floor, St James Hall
Nicholas Mirzai, Level 22 Chambers
Paul Shaw, AFSA
Peter Francis, FAL Lawyers
Peter Langham, Scottish Pacific
Peter Smith, Herbert Smith Freehills
Robert Newlinds SC
Sally Nash, O’Neill Partners Commercial Lawyers
Sam Kingston, Maddocks
Sam Sykes, 9th Floor Selborne Chambers
Stephen Mullette, Matthews Folbigg
Thea Eszenyi, ASIC

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THANK YOU TO OUR PAST SPONSORS
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Platinum Sponsors:
FTI Consulting

Gold Sponsor:          
Gilbert + Tobin                                                                       

Silver Sponsor:
Keypoint Law
​Banco Chambers
​BDO

Bronze Sponsor:                                                                       
​InfoTrack
Access Records Management                                             

Dinner Sponsor:
Herbert Smith Freehills

Media Sponsor:
Insolvency News Online
Debtwire Asia Pacific

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