INSOLVENCY

             

Insolvency

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Lyons & Lyons insolvency practice  seamless, solutions-based service.

Our expertise includes post and pre-lend reviews, workouts, voluntary administration, deed of company arrangement, receivership, liquidation, preference recovery actions, insolvent trading claims, bankruptcy and part X arrangements.

Our practitioners in this specialised field are backed up by the firm’s experts in a range of industries and areas of law.

Our substantial insolvency experience means clients can have confidence that their individual requirements will be met in a timely and cost-effective manner. We pride ourselves on listening to our clients to establish their business priorities, making our people accessible to ensure prompt response times, and providing no-nonsense, high quality advice.

experience you can rely on

Blueprint Developments – we have advised the financier of a failed Sydney property development company, including appointing the receivers and managers and advising in relation to the completion of the development projects. This has involved negotiation with the builder, local councils, purchasers, and secured and unsecured financiers.

Australian Securities and Investment Commission – we have acted on behalf of ASIC as intervenor and applicant in proceedings to wind up unregistered managed investment schemes.

Our areas of experience include:

  • Administrations, receiverships and liquidations
  • Investigation and litigation funding
  • Voidable preferences and uncommercial transactions
  • Liens and retentions of title
  • Competing securities
  • Enforcement of securities and debt subordination
  • Asset recovery
  • Operation of industrial law and instruments in insolvency scenarios and upon sale of business
  • Employer and employee rights and obligations
  • Claims against directors
  • Professional negligence
  • Fraud
  • ASIC inquiries
  • Commercial Leasing and real property
  • Set off
  • Protection and exploitation of intellectual property
  • Retention of payment regimes in the building industry
  • Assessment of proofs of debt for unliquidated amounts

Example of our most recent experience includes

Nortex (in  liquidation )-v - Lamru which took about 200 hearing days from the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeal, and finally the High Court of Australia a few weeks ago.
Call us today: 02 9387 7699  EMAIL:jwlyons@lyonsandlyons.com.au