Ansett: Acting for various creditors in connection with the Ansett administration.
Lenfest Communications: Successfully defended Lenfest in litigation that ran in the Federal Court for 140 days and involved trade practices issues and breach of fiduciary duties.
One.Tel: Acting for creditors in connection with the One.Tel administration.
Outboard Marine Corporation: Acting for the voluntary administrator of Outboard Marine's Australian subsidiary (Evinrude and Johnson Motors) and subsequently liquidator following the US parent entering Chapter 11.
Pan Pharmaceutical: Advising various creditors in connection with the Pan Pharmaceuticals collapse.
Woolworths: Acting for the company in securing its position and following the default and external administration of a significant customer enforcing this position.
AAPT: Advising generally and acting in connection with its dealings with various insolvent telecommunications industry counterparties.
Allied Coal: Acting for a number of German steel companies as major creditors of Allied Coal in connection with its voluntary administration and complex claims assessment procedure.
Amadeus Australia: Acting in connection with insolvent counterparty, workout and business acquisition.
Australian Guarantee Corporation Limited: Acted in respect of a vast range of its corporate recovery and securities enforcement work for over a decade including large commercial and small business issues.
Australian Magnesium Corporation: Acting for the Queensland Government in connection with elements of the restructure of the financing arrangements for Australian Magnesium Corporation.
Barrier Reef Casino: Acting for secured creditors in workout of the company.
Bilfinger Berger: Advising Bilfinger Berger on banking law issues in its bid for Abigroup.
Bill Express: Advising creditor as to implications/effects of its insolvency.
BTR: Co-ordinated and organised due diligence process for parallel IPO and trade sale processes of BTR's building products businesses.
CRI Group of Companies: Advising Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation as to effect of administration and receivership of these entities in context of complex set of building and finance documents for Chatswood rail interchange.
Daihatsu Australia: Advising on and implementing members' voluntary liquidation and conducting ensuing long-running litigation with contingent creditor claimant.
Emanuel Group of Companies: Acting for secured creditors on workout and restructuring of various elements of the facility and priority reorganisation.
Harris Scarfe: Acting for the landlord of major tenancies in connection with workout arrangements in the Harris Scarfe receivership.
Henry Walker Eltin: Acting for major lessor creditor in dealings with administrators.
Hooker Corporation Group: Advising creditor bank as to workout issues and syndicate exposure.
ING: Acting for ING in conducting the Australia's first solvent court scheme of arrangement in respect of one of its surplus subsidiaries with long-tail liabilities.
Insolvent trading: Advising various companies and/or boards in finance, IT, media, mining manufacturing and printing industries as to risks and action to take when insolvent trading is imminent and analysing company positions to determine scope for liability including transitioning to voluntary administration.
Investment bank: Acting for a major investment bank and its officers in connection with ASIC share trading inquiry.
Kraus Group of Companies: Advising as to incidents of Australian insolvency law on international group and financial structure.
Liberty One: Acting for the major creditor of Liberty One.
Litigation funding agreements: Advising various investors as to implications, terms and effect of these arrangements for shareholder class actions and negotiating terms of same with promoters.
Macquarie Countrywide: Acting in connection with various matters arising from shopping centre developments' delinquent tenants and related security document issues.
Macquarie Bank: Advising on its stock lending procedures, structures and insolvency implications and reviewing loan product documents.
Macquarie Bank: Advising in relation to insolvency issues involving Beaconsfield gold mine and financing arrangements.
Mifco: Acting for it on insolvency issues, advising and structuring arising out of the Patricks waterfront industry reconstruction.
Mirvac: Acting for it in the successful defence of a major preference action.
Online Advantage: Acting for Online Advantage in connection with its voluntary liquidation of the company, ensuing Federal Court proceedings and subsequent application to the Takeovers Panel.
Philippine Telecommunications Company: Acting for consortium of lenders in long-running dispute as to construction and operation of finance and security agreements between them as to the control of that entity.
Saucony Inc: Advising and acting on dispute with local franchisee, its subsequent receivership, administration and setting aside of deed of company arrangement.
Securitisation Transactions: Advised as regards Australian insolvency and enforcement issues on CBA Medallion Trust 2007-1 (candidate for deal of the year in 2008 Australian Law Awards) and similar predecessor deals for the bank.
Sons of Gwalia: Advising various financial services clients on implications of this decision for status of shareholders' claims in liquidations.
Sydney Olympic Park Authority: Advising as to termination of arrangements and legislative changes upon conclusion of Olympics and Homebush related affairs.
South Queensland Crushers: acting for the administrator of the rugby league club and on its subsequent restructuring.
Spedley Group: Acting for the liquidator of Spedley Group of companies advising generally and pursuing numerous recovery actions.
State Bank of South Australia: Acting for the Auditor-General of South Australia on the investigation of the failure of the State Bank of South Australia.
Sub-prime fallout - various: Acting in connection with the companies/funds or their creditors in respect of Absolute Capital, Allco, Basis Alpha, Babcock & Brown, Centro and Lehman Brothers.
Sun Healthcare: Acting for the secured creditor and the receivers of the Sun Healthcare Group of Companies.
Suncorp: Acted for the bank for many years in connection with its mortgage recovery and enforcement work in New South Wales.
TNT: Acting for the company in long-running dispute with service provider and on insolvency issues.
View Gold/View Resources: Advising a major creditor in connection with their insolvencies and administrations.
Yimuyn Manjerr: Acting for an NT goldmining company and its related entities in a complex interrelated series of voluntary administrations of joint venturers.
AGC (Advances) Limited v West: Successfully conducted at first instance and in subsequent appeal the leading case on the Contracts Review Act 1980 (NSW).
Fire Nymph Products Limited v The Heating Centre Pty Limited: Successfully conducted this major case, on automatic crystallisation of floating charges, at both first instance and on appeal.
Australian insolvency law: Ron has also provided expert evidence on in proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy Court.
