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Blackwattle Legal

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8005 3057

Address: Suite 4, Level 6/111 Elizabeth St 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Will COVID-19 leave your business open to fraud? #businessfraudcovid19 https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/business-fraud-covid19/

25.01.2022 How is coronavirus affecting legal agreements? https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/force-majeure-coronavi/

23.01.2022 If another person has used your image, logo or other property, creating the impression they are associated with you, you might have a claim for misleading or deceptive conduct or passing off. https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/passing-off/

23.01.2022 **DOYLE’S GUIDE INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING - RECOMMENDED LAW FIRM** We are excited to announce that Blackwattle Legal has been recommended in the Leading Insolvency & Restructuring Law Firms (NSW) category of the Doyle's Guide Guide 2021. This further affirms our claim to be a truly specialist insolvency and restructuring law firm. We are honoured to be listed alongside other leading firms. See the full list here: https://doylesguide.com/leading-insolvency-restructuring-l/... We applaud and praise each member of the Blackwattle Legal team, whose dedication and competence has contributed to this recognition. This listing, alongside other recent accolades of Blackwattle Legal, can be attributed to our incredibly high calibre of work, our devotion to our practice area, and the ongoing support of our top tier clients, ensuring our place as leading practitioners in our practice area.

22.01.2022 After a breach of contract, can you force another party to perform their contractual obligations? https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/specific-performance/

21.01.2022 We are thrilled to announce that Melanie Long has joined the Blackwattle Legal team as Associate specialising in #commerciallitigation, #insolvency, and #restructuring. Melanie recently returned to Australia having studied a Masters in Barcelona. Before studying her Masters, Melanie was a Lawyer at international law firm, K&L Gates in Melbourne, where she gained experience in M&A in addition to her time in the firms insolvency and restructuring team. Melanie has worked for A...ustralias major banks, financiers and #liquidators providing advice on all forms of insolvency and restructuring including liquidations, receiverships, voluntary administrations, security enforcement, and bankruptcies. We warmly welcome Mel to the team. https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/about-us/#melanie

20.01.2022 Director penalty notices are a ticking clock. The potential impact can be enormous, which is why you need to act quickly. Get legal advice at the first sign of financial difficulty, and especially if youve been issued with a notice. #directorpenaltynotices https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/personal-liability-com/

17.01.2022 Australian Governments economic response to #coronvirus announced today for businesses, and safe harbour is it dead? This is an important read for company owners, directors, debtors, creditors, accountants, liquidators and lawyers. https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/covid-19-safe-harbour/

16.01.2022 This recent NSW Supreme Court decision is a must read for liquidators, lawyers, litigation funders and persons served with a summons for public examination. The Court set aside summonses for public examination of NRL officers and found that the creditors voluntary winding-up was an abuse of process. Why? Read the blog. As a specialist insolvency and commercial litigation law firm, we act for liquidators in obtaining summonses for public examination and for examinees in resp...onding to summonses (which could include an application to have it set aside). https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/liquidator-public-exam/

15.01.2022 https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/replacing-voluntary-ad/

15.01.2022 Practice note for insolvency practitioners, lawyers and creditors: a cautionary tale about drafting DOCAs, and whether deed funds are held on trust https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/antqip-hire-doca/

14.01.2022 The Federal Court highlighted its desire for the statutory functions of company administrators to continue as efficiently as possible. Its encouraging that the Court was willing to adopt flexible measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. #voluntaryadministrationcovid19 https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/voluntary-administrati/

14.01.2022 We are hiring! Senior Associate / Special Counsel - Commercial Litigation & Insolvency

13.01.2022 Notwithstanding the new and temporary shield afforded to company directors against personal claims for insolvent trading, in the months ahead, liquidators may continue to investigate whether any transactions amount to voidable unfair preferences even though the transaction might have occurred during the period directors were, in effect, allowed to trade their companies insolvently. https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/unfair-preferences/

12.01.2022 Congratulations to our principal, Trevor Withane, who has been recommended in the Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyers (NSW) category of Doyle’s Guide 2021. It is now beyond doubt that Trevor is one of Australia's best litigators. https://doylesguide.com/leading-commercial-litigation-disp/

12.01.2022 Director duties. What are they? How does #COVID-19, #coronavirus, affect them? https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/directors-duties/ #law #directors #legalissues #insolvency

12.01.2022 Nine year prison sentence in the first criminal prosecution of a shadow director for insolvent trading our look at insolvent trading and shadow directors https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/shadow-director-insolv/

12.01.2022 https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/benefits-voluntary-adm/

11.01.2022 #coronavirus has resulted in significant business disruption. In thinking about your debt structure, including the opportunity to potentially access new funding, keep these points in mind (whether or not you are looking for funding now). https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/debt-restructure/

09.01.2022 **AUSTRALIAN LAW AWARDS FINALISTS IN TWO CATEGORIES** We are thrilled to announce that Blackwattle Legal are finalists for *Dispute Resolution Team of the Year and *Boutique Law Firm of the Year. This is especially welcome news, affirming our claim to be a truly specialist tier-one dispute resolution law firm. We are honoured to have been nominated alongside other leading global and domestic firms. Being finalists in these two highly competitive categories in one of the le...gal industry’s most prestigious peer-reviewed awards, recognises the high calibre of our team and our passion for driving the industry forward with innovation, intellectual rigour, excellent client service and outstanding business outcomes. We applaud and praise each member of the Blackwattle Legal team, whose dedication and competence has contributed to this recognition. Finally, we wish to thank our clients and referrers who have entrusted us with complex, intellectually challenging and important matters. Best wishes to all finalists in the upcoming 21st Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards.

07.01.2022 Holding DOCAs: to buy more time to resuscitate a company struggling financially; an alternative to Safe Harbour may be found in the Mighty River https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/holding-doca/

06.01.2022 Important read for liquidators and insolvency lawyers: heres our more in-dept digest of the Federal Courts judgment in the recent Colette Group decision in which the administrators were granted an extension of time to explore options in this fast-changing COVID-19 era https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/administrators-persona/

06.01.2022 Will COVID-19 affect the limitation period of your legal claim? #limitationperiodcovid19 https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/limitationperiod/

05.01.2022 How JobKeeper is propping up zombie businesses and what happens next https://lnkd.in/gGAjued #businesses #insolvency #directorsandofficers

04.01.2022 Who is a #companyofficer? High Courts landmark decision - this is a must read https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/company-officer/

02.01.2022 The Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Act 2020 (Cth) (Act) targets company officers (including directors, shadow directors and de facto directors) as well as anyone else who procures, incites, induces or encourages a phoenixing transaction. These amendments represent an increase in ASICs quasi-judicial powers. ASICs power to issue orders is not unfettered. The Act imposes on ASIC a duty to have regard to various factors, and restricts it from making an ...order where it has reason to believe that a Court would be prevented from making a corresponding order. Since the Financial Services Royal Commission, ASIC has been more active in taking enforcement action. With its new powers to issue orders without starting Court proceedings, it can be expected that ASIC will be even more active in investigating companies and wrongdoers and taking action. This said, those subject to ASIC action should carefully scrutinise the lawfulness of ASICs actions. https://www.blackwattlelegal.com.au/illegal-phoenixing/

01.01.2022 We went live this week We have made a big investment in our tech stack with the goal of driving efficiencies for our staff so that they can focus on the deep intellectual work which garners success in our clients' matters. Our investment will help ensure that we can deliver even better outcomes for our clients, and our staff can be even more efficient without having to work harder. Big thanks to Actionstep, Verlata Consulting, NetDocuments, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, Ellen How...ard, Jason Mills, Kelly Noble, Megan Williamson, Robert Aitken, Saumya Malik Rana, Chloe McGreal and Michael Vassilieff. A special thanks to our very own Olivia Parsons who orchestrated so ably the entire project! Final thanks to Jerome Doraisamy, Lawyers Weekly and Clarence - Workplaces for Professionals for the introductions to the experts listed above. #law #legalissues #lawfirm #lawfirms #lawfirmstrategy #investment #success