Jeremy specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with a focus on insolvency and restructuring, contract, equity, trade practices, corporations, banking and financial services and regulatory investigations.
Jeremy has nearly 10 years’ litigation and dispute resolution experience in a diverse range of commercial cases across various industry sectors, including banking and financial services, property development, gaming and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, retail and transport.
Jeremy's experience includes an eight-month secondment at a global funds management institution, where he advised the business on a wide range of high value commercial disputes, and regulatory issues.
Jeremy takes a strategic and commercial approach to his cases, which are primarily in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia. Where appropriate, Jeremy seeks to resolve his cases by alternative means, and he has been recognised in Best Lawyers in Australia as a ‘One to Watch’ in 2025 and 2026 for Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Experience
- Acting for the former Managing Director and Chief Casino Officer of Star Sydney in high profile civil penalty proceedings brought by ASIC in the Federal Court of Australia against him and ten other former directors and officers in respect of alleged breaches of duty in connection with, among other things, the operation of a junket known as ‘Suncity’ at Star Sydney.
- Acting for the liquidators of Union Standard International Group Pty Ltd, which offered over-the-counter derivative products in the form of contracts for difference and margin foreign exchange contracts, in respect of various judicial direction applications, and public examinations and subsequent proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against its former CEO and auditors.
- Acting for a corporate joint venture party in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales defending a claim for specific performance of a joint venture agreement and allegations of repudiation of that agreement in connection with a succesful residential and commercial mortgage aggregation business in Victoria and Tasmania.
- Acting for an individual in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales brought by an executor for alleged breach of fiduciary duty against her and PwC in respect of a significant settlement entered into with the ATO on behalf of the deceased and his related entities.
- Acting for a property developer in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against a listed commercial real estate investor in respect of an alleged breach of a dealing prohibition in consideration and option deeds concerning a large land holding in Kemps Creek in Greater Western Sydney.
- Acting for the assignee of a cause of action in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against a French domiciled global engineering company alleging wrongful purported termination and repudiation of a share purchase deed for the acqusition of shares up to a maximum sum of $27.5 million.
- Acting for an individual in the succesful defence of contempt charges brought in the Supreme Court of New South Wales based on a release given in a heads of agreement: NHB Enterprises Pty Ltd v Corry (No 7) [2021] NSWSC 741. The case is an important authority on the ability of a litigant to release another party from a private contempt prosecution.
- Acting for the directors of a contributory mortgage trustee and holder of an Australian financial services licence in the defence of two representative proceedings (class actions) in the Federal Court of Australia concerning allegations of misleading or deceptive conduct with respect to commercial mortgage investments in South East Queensland.
- Acting for and advising banks, alternative lenders and other security holders in relation to the validity and enforcement of PPSA and real property securities, often in situations where complex insolvency issues and priority disputes arise.
- Acting for and advising administrators and other stakeholders, including directors, secured and unsecured creditors and lessors in relation to all aspects of the voluntary administration process, including advising on and drafting deeds of company arrangement.
- Acting for and advising liquidators and other stakeholders, including directors, secured and unsecured creditors and lessors in relation to all aspects of the liquidation process, including public examinations and related litigation for unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions, creditor-defeating dispositions, insolvent trading claims and breaches of directors’ duties.
- Acting for various shareholders in several shareholder disputes in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Federal Court of Australia concerning allegations of oppressive conduct under Part 2F.1 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and applications for the winding up of companies on the just and equitable ground, among other grounds.
Best Lawyer in Australia 2025-2026
Alternative Dispute Resolution ('Ones to Watch')
- Law Society of New South Wales