General Specialties:

Banking and Finance

Specialty Focus:

Experienced Banking Expert Witness - Business, Commercial, Corporate Lending, Loan Restructuring, Debt Advisory, Recapitalisation

Education:

• B.Ec. (Accounting major), University of Adelaide, Chartered Accountant, Fellow and former State Chair and National Board member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency Turnaround Association (ARITA), member of the AICD, member of the Asia Pacific Institute of Experts, a Singapore-based society spearheading the development of professional expertise in the field of expert evidence in the region.

Years in Practice:

6

Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs:

25

I have extensive banking experience with ANZ and NAB, in Australia, dealing with local and offshore exposures.

I have significant involvement across different industries and lending types, including bilateral, club, syndicated and securitised facilities.

My experience giving evidence is more extensive than any currently active counterpart, and includes (1) acting as an banking expert in more than thirty matters and giving evidence in the Singapore International Commercial Court, Federal Court of Australia, and Victorian Supreme Court – each engagement including Joint Expert reports, and requiring concurrent (“hot-tub”) evidence (2) representing NAB at at Parliamentary Inquiries including two Senate Inquiries, and two Parliamentary Joint Committee hearings (3) appearing as a witness in a Liquidator’s public examination in the Federal Court.

I have provided banking expert reports for matters in the Federal Court of Australia; Singapore International Commercial Court; Queensland, Victorian & NSW Supreme Courts; NSW Land and Environment Court, Land Court of Queensland, the Victorian County Court, and VCAT.