8th ANNUAL PRACTICAL
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BANRUPTCY CONGRESS
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Monday, 2 December 2019
With optional workshops held on Tuesday, 3 December 2019
                      
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.
​TOPICS INCLUDE:​​

  • Regulator Update and Feedback Session AFSA
  • Voidable Transactions
  • The Famous Family Law Experts In Conversation
  • Reviews of Recent Decisions Impacting on Practitioners
  • Taking Possession Of And Dealing With Property
  •  “Outbound” Recovery of Overseas Assets
  • The ASBFEO “Insolvency Practices Inquiry”
  • Review and Replacement of Trustees
  • Shareholders rights in a Bankrupt Estate
  • Reviews of Sequestration Orders & Dealing With An Annulment Application
  • Permission to Travel Overseas



SPEAKERS:

John Melluish, Partner, PCI Partners - Conference Chair
Bob Cruickshanks, Personal Insolvency Consultant
Sally Nash, Consultant Solicitor, O’Neill Partners Lawyers
Stephen Mullette, Principal, Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
Mark Findlay, Director Regulation, Regulation & Enforcement,
Australian Financial Security Authority  
Amy Sheggerud-Woods, Special Counsel, Mills Oakley
Daniela Naidenov, Principal, Daniela Fazio Lawyers
Jill Lawrence, Assistant Director, Advocacy, Australian Small Business & Family Enterprise Ombudsman
Michelle Castle, Barrister
Noel McCoy, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Jayne Treherne, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers

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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

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
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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