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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
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Special Counsel
Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Property & Construction
Restructuring & Turnaround
Current practice
Chris has experience and expertise in the following areas:
Clients and recent experience
Chris specialises in corporate and personal insolvency and construction disputes.
He acts for insolvency practitioners in all types of personal and corporate business restructuring and insolvency administrations. He also regularly acts for banks, companies and individuals in the enforcement of debts, including in relation to the rights of secured creditors. Chris is also engaged to act for companies, directors and individuals in relation to insolvency matters and to provide advice on the restructuring of distressed businesses.
Chris also has extensive experience in commercial and domestic construction law and has acted on behalf of builders, developers, owners and construction industry professional providing advice in relation to:
- Claims for defects and incomplete work;
- Progress payments, EOTs, variations, prolongation claims, liquidated damages and debt recovery;
- Security of payments legislation and arbitrations;
- Dispute resolution; and
- Retention of title claims.
Chris regularly appears in VCAT and all Victorian and federal courts.
Qualifications and personal affiliations
Chris has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne, specialising in insurance and construction.
Chris won the University of Melbourne Deacons Prize for Construction Contracts in 2001.
Chris became special counsel in 2008.
Chris is a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia (Associate), and the Building Dispute Practitioners’ Society. He is also a member of the Society for Computers and the Law and the Law Institute of Victoria's Litigation section.
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