DLA Piper‘s experienced restructuring and insolvency team boasts ’significant technical knowledge’, and advises on complex security and priority arrangements, and insolvency structuring issues. Regularly advising cross-border clients in the Asia Pacific region, ‘outstanding’, team head Naomi Moore is a key contact for major cross-border insolvency matters, while Lionel Meehan specialises in major restructuring matters. Amy Nolan assists with performance bond issuing and liquidation proceedings.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Excellent connection across SE Asia and bringing the right people to solve the right problems. Seamless support across restructuring, corporate and mining. Works collaboratively with clients and cross-border and local lawyers.' 

  • ‘Naomi Moore is outstanding. She is commercial and always makes herself available. Naomi provides excellent legal insights in navigating cross-border issues and offers clear solutions and pathways, rather than simply identifying problems.’

  • ‘This team's significant technical knowledge and expertise in what is a very complex area of law is second to none. This is backed up by significant practical experience having advised on many such matters, which the team was great in bringing to bear on this engagement. Furthermore, the team's availability and responsiveness from partner down was exemplary and rare in my experience, as was their willingness to understand client needs and be flexible to meet those needs as far as possible.’

  • ‘The technical knowledge and expertise of Lionel Meehan was incredibly impressive, as was his ability to explain what were very complex technical legal principles and issues to different audiences with varying levels of understanding. His responsiveness and ability to make himself available to me throughout what was a very lengthy engagement was rare in my experience. ’

  • ‘The DLA Piper Restructuring and Insolvency Team is a well resourced, highly capable and well connected team providing timely, high quality advice in high pressure situations. Led by Naomi Moore, the team have made themselves available at all times to discuss complex cross-border restructuring projects, ensuring that the advice is grounded in our broader Company's corporate objectives. We have found the team's dedication to serving our restructuring needs to have been second to none..’

  • ‘Naomi Moore is highly knowledgeable, from both a technical legal side as well as from an industry and market perspective. Her accessibility and availability at all times of the week was reassuring, and her calm disposition and thorough examination of the issues from multiple perspectives allows us to be the beneficiary of timely, concise and actionable advice.'

  • ‘Naomi Moore is an outstanding and brilliant lawyer with deep knowledge of restructuring and insolvency. She collaborates well with external counsel and is a formidable person to have in your corner in the negotiation room. She is meticulous and has amazing perseverance to ensure the deal is done.’

Key clients

  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
  • Amoma Sarl
  • Associated Kiln Driers
  • Altus Renewables
  • Macmillan Science and Education
  • Woori Bank
  • Allianz Australia Insurance
  • AssetInsure
  • Westpac Banking Corporation

Work highlights

  • Advising Sunshine Coast Airport and Queensland Airports Limited to arrest four Bonza Boeing 737-800 aircraft arising out of the recent Bonza administration.
  • Advising Liberty Mutual Insurance Company on security, priority and workout strategies for performance bonds issued and  security held by Liberty.
  • Advising the Swiss Bankruptcy Office as the liquidators of the estate of Amoma Sarl on recognition proceedings to recognise the Swiss liquidation proceedings commenced for Amoma in the Canton of Geneva, in Australia, for the purposes of facilitating proceedings being brought by Amoma in Australia.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Naomi Moore, Lionel Meehan

Other key lawyers

Amy Nolan