James Hamilton | Partner | Sydney

James is a commercial litigator and insolvency law specialist. He has over 25 years experience, with 15 of those spent practising in a large law firm.

James has acted for, and advised, both Australian and international clients on a wide range of complex commercial issues and disputes, including the areas of:

• IT implementation
• partnerships
• misleading conduct
• debt claims
• contract
• trusts
• distributorships
• equitable remedies
• joint ventures
• fraud
• professional negligence
• shareholder dispute

James has also acted for insolvency practitioners, banks, unsecured creditors, directors and debtors on a wide range of insolvency issues, covering:

• voluntary administrations and deeds of company arrangement
• voidable transactions
• receiverships
• insolvent trading
• winding-up proceedings and liquidations
• security and guarantee enforcement issues
• directors’ duties
• ASIC enforcement actions
• public examinations
• bankruptcy

Qualifications
Bachelor of Law - University of NSW
Bachelor of Commerce - University of NSW

Memberships
Law Council Insolvency Committee – NSW
Associate Member IPA

Seminar Papers & Articles
Freezing orders - Mareva orders asset prevention orders - November 2011
Paper - Freezing orders - Mareva orders asset prevention orders - November 2011
Equitable Liens seminar paper
Letters of Comfort presentation
Letters of Comfort seminar paper
Court Appointed Receiverships and Corporations
Minimising the effect of customer insolvencies
Shadow directors and personal liability of third parties for company liabilities breaches