Nick Dale

Exper­tise

• Com­mer­cial
• Cor­po­rate
• Insol­ven­cy
• Lit­i­ga­tion

Sec­tors

• Finan­cial Services
• Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Industrials
• Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
• Real Estate & Construction
• Retail & Wholesale
• Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional
• Tech­nol­o­gy & Media 

Expe­ri­ence

Com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate litigation:

• Assign­ments of debt, enforce­ment of guar­an­tees and secu­ri­ty inter­ests in real and per­son­al property.
• Build­ing and con­struc­tion dis­putes — defects, delay and pro­lon­ga­tion claims on com­mer­cial projects and defects in res­i­den­tial (includ­ing stra­ta) projects, for own­ers, builders, sub­con­trac­tors and pro­fes­sion­al con­sul­tants. Expert deter­mi­na­tions, ref­er­ences and con­ven­tion­al trials.
• Con­veyanc­ing disputes.
• Dam­ages claims, debt recov­ery and enforce­ment of judgments.
• Direc­tors’ and office­hold­ers’ statu­to­ry lia­bil­i­ty and breach­es of fidu­cia­ry duties.
• Injunc­tions and freez­ing orders.
• Joint ven­tures, con­struc­tive and result­ing trusts, includ­ing over inter­ests in real property.
• Nation­al trans­port & logis­tics com­pa­nies in con­trac­tu­al dis­putes includ­ing pal­let disputes.
• Pro­fes­sion­al neg­li­gence claims against engi­neers, lawyers, val­uers and mort­gage brokers.
• Trusts, share­hold­er and part­ner­ship disputes.

For insol­ven­cy, both cor­po­rate and per­son­al — act­ing for Admin­is­tra­tors, Liq­uida­tors and Receivers in all types of dis­putes in numer­ous indus­tries, and for Trustees in Bank­rupt­cy and Trustees appoint­ed under sec­tion 66G of the Con­veyanc­ing Act. In overview:

• In Admin­is­tra­tions — exten­sions of con­ven­ing peri­ods, val­i­da­tion of appoint­ments and in Bank­rupt­cy — defend­ing removal applications.
• Assign­ments of caus­es of action for Liquidators.
• Appli­ca­tions to the Court (con­test­ed) for approval of remu­ner­a­tion of Liq­uida­tors, Receivers and Sec­tion 66G Trustees.
• Appli­ca­tions to the Court for direc­tions (judi­cial advice) includ­ing in a lead­ing case in the con­text of insol­vent cor­po­rate trustees.
• Deeds of Com­pa­ny Arrange­ment and Cred­i­tors’ Schemes of Arrangement.
• Enforc­ing secu­ri­ties by sub­ro­ga­tion to mort­gagee rights.
• Opti­mis­ing asset sale strate­gies with the appointee.
• Orders for pos­ses­sion of real prop­er­ty in Bank­rupt Estates.
• Pub­lic exam­i­na­tions in Bank­rupt­cy and wind­ings up, includ­ing appear­ing at times with­out Counsel.
• Replace­ment of Liq­uida­tors by appli­ca­tion to the Court.
• Trac­ing, seiz­ing and real­is­ing assets of var­i­ous kinds.
• Ter­mi­na­tions of wind­ing ups for Liq­uida­tors and also for shareholders.
• Void­able trans­ac­tions in per­son­al and cor­po­rate insol­ven­cy, includ­ing lead­ing cas­es on moth­er­ship pref­er­ence pro­ceed­ings for Liquidators
• Scop­ing the project at hand, with input from the client.
• Appear­ing as an advo­cate with­out Coun­sel in appro­pri­ate mat­ters in the Fed­er­al and Supreme Courts.
• Com­mer­cial draft­ing such as con­tracts, cor­re­spon­dence, deeds and resolutions.
• Draft­ing plead­ings and evi­dence, where nec­es­sary with­out Counsel.
• Work­ing with care­ful­ly select­ed Bar­ris­ters and some­times Senior Coun­sel at the opti­mum time refin­ing strat­e­gy, plead­ings and evi­dence, and con­duct­ing trials.

Mem­ber­ships and education

• Turn­around man­age­ment association.
• BA (1991) Mac­quar­ie University.
• LLB (1993) Mac­quar­ie University.