The practice at Maddocks covers a wide range of restructuring and insolvency matters, including voluntary administration, receiverships, liquidations, security enforcement and recovery strategies. Clients include directors, insolvency practitioners, financial institutions and creditors. Melbourne-based partner Marelda Hibberd heads the team and regularly acts for banks and non-bank lenders in the recovery of corporate and commercial debts. Danielle Funston and Sam Kingston are active members of the team in the Sydney and Melbourne offices, respectively.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Client focused. Outcome driven.’
‘Danielle Funston is very responsive and able to accommodate the different time zones in which we operate. She ensures she keeps a watching brief over her colleague contribution which gives me the comfort that the advice is joined up and addresses my strategic business outcome targets.’
Key clients
- STA Travel
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Work highlights
- Advising the liquidators of STA Travel, the operating subsidiary in Australia for the International STA Travel Group that filed for insolvency in Zurich, Switzerland in 2020.
- Acting for secured creditor CBA and appointed receivers FTI Consulting over the national food distribution business, In2Food Group.