Employee fraud: recovering assets and seeking restitution
Half of the frauds committed in Australia are perpetrated by business “insiders”; either employees or…
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We support clients around the globe. Our practitioners are experienced in dealing with multifaceted issues across various jurisdictions.
Our innovative approach creates tailored solutions to our clients’ most complex reconstructions and disputes. The highly specialised nature of our practice enables our practitioners to proactively and strategically prepare clients to achieve their ambitions. Quality, commerciality, and discretion are fundamental to our expertise.
Meet the Team
Unique to other practices, many of our practitioners are dually qualified accountants and lawyers with specialist postgraduate qualifications in restructuring and insolvency.
Scott is the founding Partner of Taylor David Lawyers. He has specialised in debt restructuring and insolvency for over 18 years. Scott has advised on many of Australia's largest and most notable insolvency administrations. His clients range from federal government departments and foreign investment banks to insolvency practitioners and SMEs.
Scott D. Taylor
Partner
Chad specialises in commercial litigation and insolvency. He has acted in complex, significant and high-profile matters in a broad range of corporate, commercial and insolvency-related disputes. He has acted for various stakeholders, including financial institutions, companies and insolvency practitioners.
Chad Gear
Partner
Widely regarded as Australia's most experienced reconstruction and insolvency lawyer, Dr Hamilton was the first in Australia to practice concomitantly as both a lawyer and official liquidator. A qualified chartered accountant, Dr Hamilton has advised upon many of the largest insolvencies over the past 30 years.
Dr Garry J. Hamilton
Senior Legal Consultant
Greg is a Senior Associate in the firm's insolvency and litigation team. He has acted in many complex commercial disputes and is an experienced advocate. Greg regularly acts for insolvency practitioners, companies and individuals in insolvency and litigation-based disputes. He holds postgraduate specialist qualifications in reconstruction and insolvency and is fluent in Spanish.
Greg Grunert
Senior Associate
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Recognised for our extensive industry knowledge and depth of experience, our team has worked on some of the most challenging matters across a range of industries. Combined with our legal expertise means we can help clients develop strategies that suit their unique business aims.
Creditor’s statutory demands: Grounds to set aside
In “Creditor’s statutory demands; debt collection tool?”, I explored the circumstances in which a Statutory…
Voidable preferences and set-off: Mr Morton and déjà vu: clarity finally from the Full Federal Court
The History – Mr Morton’s role On 5 March 2015, a judgment was handed down…
THE FOUNDING PARTNER OF TAYLOR DAVID LAWYERS
Scott has advised on many of Australia’s largest and most notable insolvency administrations. His clients range from federal government departments and foreign investment banks to insolvency practitioners and SMEs.
He has worked in and on matters throughout Australia, New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.
His practice area includes complex debt restructuring, workouts and insolvency. He has led the successful turnaround of many companies and annulled the bankruptcies of many high-profile individuals.
Scott is a keen marathon runner, raising over $50,000 for charity outside of practice.
