Michael Hayter

Exper­tise

• Com­mer­cial
• Com­mer­cial Finance
• Insol­ven­cy
• Lit­i­ga­tion

Sec­tors

• Finan­cial Services
• Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
• Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional

Expe­ri­ence

I have prac­ticed as a Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion Lawyer for over 30 years with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on com­mer­cial dis­putes and insol­ven­cy mat­ters. I have act­ed in hun­dreds of pub­lic exam­i­na­tions, with­out Coun­sel, for liq­uida­tors, receivers and bank­rupt­cy trustees.

I was one of the first lawyers appoint­ed to the State and Nation­al Com­mit­tees of Insol­ven­cy Prac­ti­tion­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Aus­tralia (now known as ARI­TA) and my cas­es are reg­u­lar­ly report­ed in var­i­ous legal pub­li­ca­tions. I served on the Cor­po­ra­tions List Com­mit­tee of the Supreme Court of NSW for a num­ber of years. My judg­ments are reg­u­lar­ly report­ed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia. I recent­ly act­ed suc­cess­ful­ly for par­ties in the High Court of Aus­tralia. I have suc­cess­ful­ly been involved in many high-pro­file cas­es and cas­es that set legal precedents.

I have been involved in giv­ing advice in thou­sands of insol­ven­cy admin­is­tra­tion and con­duct­ed lit­i­ga­tion in most states of Aus­tralia. Many of my cas­es are insol­ven­cy admin­is­tra­tions such as Alan Bond and more recent­ly the miss­ing woman case of Melis­sa Cad­dick which have been high pro­file and involved com­plex legal issues. I have act­ed for many lawyers and accoun­tants in part­ner­ship and share­hold­er dis­putes. I have also suc­cess­ful­ly act­ed on behalf of var­i­ous pro­fes­sion­als includ­ing accoun­tants, lawyers and sports per­sons in dis­ci­pli­nary proceedings.

Roles, mem­ber­ships and education

• Bach­e­lor of Com­merce (major in Accountancy)
• Bach­e­lor of Laws (Uni­ver­si­ty of NSW)
• Cur­rent mem­ber of ARI­TA and the Turn­around Man­age­ment Association