Emily Hyland
Emily is a Senior Associate who advises on restructuring, insolvency and M&A, including distressed acquisitions and cross-border transactions.
Insolvency and recovery proceedings
Complex M&A
Distressed acquisitions
Cross-border transactions and deal origination
Construction
Mergers and Acquisitions, Columbia Business School (Executive Education)
Admitted as a solicitor in Queensland 2020
ARITA – Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association
Profile
Emily joined Taylor David in 2020 and works closely with Scott Taylor across the firm’s restructuring, insolvency and transactional work. She combines a legal and accounting background, which she brings to matters where the numbers drive the outcome: solvency questions, voidable transaction and insolvent trading claims, and the value and priority of security in a distressed sale.
She acts for liquidators and bankruptcy trustees in recovery proceedings, from the first assessment of a claim through to settlement or judgment. She advises directors and companies under financial pressure on their options, including voluntary administration, and the personal exposure that can follow. On the transactional side, she advises buyers and investors on acquisitions, including acquiring assets out of an insolvency process, where the security position, timing and creditor dynamics must be worked through quickly.
Her experience is multi-jurisdictional. She advises on cross-border transactions from deal origination through to completion, and has worked across the mining, resources, energy, manufacturing and construction sectors.
Selected experience
- Acting for liquidators in insolvent trading claims against former directors, including preparing the evidence of insolvency and negotiating court-approved outcomes.
- Acting for a bankruptcy trustee in proceedings to recover property for the bankrupt estate.
- Advising an offshore investor group on a strategy to acquire a resources project out of voluntary administration.
- Advising the directors of a construction group on their options in financial distress, including appointment of an administrator, licensing consequences and directors’ personal exposure.
- Advising company directors on the voluntary administration process, likely costs and next steps.
- Acting for liquidators in recovery proceedings against professional advisers of a failed company.