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In brief Even with the fiscal stimulus and other measures taken by the Federal and State governments in Australia, corporate insolvencies are likely to increase in coming months. Under Australia’s insolvency regimes, a distressed company may be subject to voluntary administration, creditor’s voluntary winding up or court ordered winding up (collectively, an external administration). Each of these processes raises different issues for the commencement and continuation of court and arbitration proceedings.In this alert, we consider the…

Today we are happy to welcome Geoff O’Dea to our Global Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Geoff joins our London office from Freshfields. He has almost 20 years experience in restructuring and insolvency matters, regularly advising sponsors, special situations funds, creditors and debtors, and insolvency practitioners. He is an expert and published author on Schemes of Arrangement: Law and Practice, the leading treatise on the most common corporate restructuring tool and the preferred method of implementing…