Sean Green­wood

Expe­ri­ence

• Act­ed for a prop­er­ty devel­op­er in its mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar claim on the Tor­rens Assur­ance Fund with respect to loss­es sus­tained as a result of an ease­ment to park motor vehi­cles ben­e­fit­ing an adjoin­ing prop­er­ty not being record­ed on its title. 
• Suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ed a com­pa­ny direc­tor (both at first instance and on appeal) who was being sued for a sub­stan­tial debt plus inter­est pur­suant to an alleged guar­an­tee con­tained in a Cred­it Account Appli­ca­tion which he signed on behalf of his company.
• Appeared for a com­pa­ny that con­ducts a high­ly spe­cialised civ­il con­struc­tion busi­ness involv­ing main­ly under­ground direc­tion­al drilling in an action for dam­ages for defec­tive work against a sub-con­trac­tor. The client was suc­cess­ful at both first instance an on appeal (to the Court of Appeal) and was award­ed a sub­stan­tial amount of dam­ages by the Court as well as its costs.
• Act­ed for a steel fab­ri­ca­tor who is defend­ing an unfair pref­er­ence claim for an amount exceed­ing $1 mil­lion in the Fed­er­al Court of Australia. 

Exper­tise

• Lit­i­ga­tion
• Insol­ven­cy
• Dis­pute resolution

Roles, mem­ber­ships and education

• Admit­ted to prac­tise as a solic­i­tor in New South Wales in April 2011
• Bach­e­lor of Laws (LLB), Uni­ver­si­ty of Wol­lon­gong, 2010
• Bach­e­lor of Com­merce, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wol­lon­gong, 2010
• Mem­ber of the Law Soci­ety of NSW