Our experience
Arnold Bloch Leibler is a strong advocate for improving existing statutory frameworks to facilitate a more modern approach to corporate reorganisation and insolvency arrangements in Australia.
Over the last 20 years, we have advised on some of Australia’s largest and most complex corporate restructuring and insolvency matters including Arrium, Ansett Airlines, Nine Entertainment, Alinta, Centro, One.Tel and Timbercorp. These are the types of matters that have reinforced our market reputation and have been the catalyst for changes in insolvency law.
Our commercial approach to administration procedures and moratoria, and debt refinancing, maximises the opportunity for a company to remain in existence and thereby increases returns for creditors and shareholders.
'Law Firm of the Year' for Insolvency & Reorganisation Law
Restructuring & insolvency services
Our work involves assisting clients with:
- Early and proactive diagnosis of legal issues that may impact on solvency
- Developing workable and commercially realistic solutions to restructure a business
- Preparing deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangement and informal realisation arrangements
- Restructuring and workout of debts
- Performing detailed security and due diligence reviews to secure and protect assets (including real assets and employee entitlements)
- Enforcement and recovery of antecedent transactions and
- Representation in actions and investigations by corporate regulators.
"Very creative and commercial in approach and solutions."
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Insights & news
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ABL ranked in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 guide
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Arnold Bloch Leibler recognised in 2024 Chambers Asia Pacific guide
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Parliamentary committee accepts proposals from review chaired by ABL’s Genevieve Sexton
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ABL recognised in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023
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Arnold Bloch Leibler listed in 2023 Chambers Asia Pacific guide
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Arnold Bloch Leibler named in the 2022 Doyle’s Guide
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ABL named ‘Law Firm of the Year’ for Insolvency & Reorganisation Law
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Arnold Bloch Leibler voted Australia’s ‘Law firm of the Year’ in two practice areas
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AICD alerts directors to key findings from Safe Harbour review
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Review finds Australia’s insolvency laws “an impenetrable quagmire” to non-specialists
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High Court boost for shareholder class actions
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Legal 500 Asia Pacific results 2022
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Arnold Bloch Leibler recognised in 2022 Chambers Asia Pacific guide
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The Arrium judgment - a radical shift or business as usual?
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Arnold Bloch Leibler recognised in the 2021 Doyle’s Guide
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Genevieve Sexton to head Safe Harbour Review Panel
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Elyse Hilton featured as one of Australia’s “Litigation Rising Stars”
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Former Arrium directors “had reasonable grounds to suspect insolvency”
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2021 Legal 500 Asia Pacific results
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Arnold Bloch Leibler features in 2021 Chambers Asia Pacific guide
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ABL recognised at 2020 TMA Australia awards
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ABL advises on PAS Group sale, saving Aussie retail brands and 1000 jobs
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Bradman Foundation appoints Leon Zwier as next Chairman
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2020 Partner, Special Counsel and Senior Associate announcement
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Scholarship honour for “giant” of restructuring
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Insights from the Debtwire Australia Restructuring Forum
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Elyse Hilton: Taking on the 'boozy, blokey' insolvency club
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New partner Elyse Hilton on market trends
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2019 Partner, Special Counsel and Senior Associate announcement
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2020 Best Lawyers® International results
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Sitting on a document mine: Creditors given access to public examination documents
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific results 2019
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Arnold Bloch Leibler recognised in the 2018 Doyle’s Guide
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Arnold Bloch Leibler listed in Chambers Asia Pacific 2019
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Wrap up: Debtwire Australia Restructuring Forum
ABL finalists in the 2018 Women in Law Awards
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Receivers, circulating assets & employees as priority creditors
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ABL wins two deal awards for Arrium restructure at the Australasian Law Awards
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33 ABL lawyers listed in Best Lawyers 2019 guide
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