Ebenezer Assibey-Bonsu is a senior lawyer in the firm’s Commercial Dispute Resolution team. He has extensive experience acting for clients across a broad range of industries and sectors, including large corporates, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, government bodies, and construction companies.
Ebenezer specialises in complex commercial litigation, with particular expertise in corporations law disputes, corporate insolvency, partnership and contractual disputes, financial services litigation, property disputes, and construction-related matters. He regularly acts in large-scale and contested litigation in the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of Western Australia.
Ebenezer is known for his strategic and measured approach to dispute resolution, and for delivering practical, commercially focused outcomes.
Experience
- Acting for a contractor in a large payment claim dispute and defending a claim for liquidated damages in the Supreme Court.
- Advising major insurers on professional indemnity claims against insured contractors, engineers, and surveyors, and representing insured’s in informal settlement conferences, mediations and Court proceedings.
- Acting for and advising financial institutions on commencing and defending litigation involving business loan recovery, mortgage recovery, bankruptcy and insolvency matters.
- Acting for a defendant in Supreme Court proceedings regarding a partnership dispute, and advising on the release of various PPSR registrations and loan facilities.
- Acting for and advising a CFO in relation to an ASIC regulatory investigation regarding a cryptocurrency.
- Acting for and advising a manufacturing company in relation to WorkSafe prosecution.
- Acting for a plaintiff in District Court proceedings against a motor vehicle manufacturer for a defective luxury car.
- Acting for a Respondent in the Supreme Court of Appeal regarding equitable claims for unconscionable conduct and undue influence.
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- Vice president of the African Professionals of Australia (WA)
- Board member of the Society for African Lawyers Australia
- Law Society of WA
Ebenezer Assibey-Bonsu – great communicator with great attention to detail
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