Siena Monterosso

Recent Work

• Advising assignees of antecedent transaction claims against officers of a Company in administration on merits and litigation strategy;
• Advising administrators on complaints made in connection with materials filed on the Company’s register, including applications to rectify same;
• Applications for and extensions of part AI moratoriums;
• Advice on the validity of appointments of administrators/ liquidators under the Insolvency Act 1986;
• Advising administrators on recovery of antecedent transaction claims against officers of a Company;
• defending officers of a company in connection with antecedent transaction claims brought against them;
• Drafting and enforcing letters before action and notices of default under contractual documents and Australian, English and Welsh legislation;
• Drafting and negotiating business sale agreements, security deeds, facility agreements, settlement deeds, deeds of release and undertaking and forbearance deeds;
• Advising lenders on secured property confiscated as proceeds of crime;
• Advising on distressed asset sales, including in connection with residential and commercial property, franchises and choses in action;
• Bringing summary and default judgment applications in the Supreme Court of Western Australia;
• Defending applications for leave to proceed against Companies in external administration;
• Various security for costs applications in the Supreme Court of Western Australia;
• Frequent urgent ex-parte applications in the Supreme Court of Western Australia in connection with court approval of external administrators’ actions in the course of administrations; and
• Advising an insolvency practitioner on proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia regarding class actions entered into during an insolvent liquidation.