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Provided by Gavin Rakoczy
Gavin Rakoczy is a restructuring and insolvency (R&I) and disputes lawyer with over 15 years’ experience acting for companies, lenders and funds in the R&I space.
Gavin has had a lead role in many of Australia’s most complicated restructures and distressed situations, including Virgin, Arrium, Sydney Light Rail, RCR Tomlinson, Surfstitch, Angas, ION, McAleese, Santanol, Paladin, and Forge.
Gavin's practice spans the full spectrum of R&I, encompassing both front-end and back-end advice, including assisting distressed companies via informal (solvent) and formal (insolvent) restructuring, providing structuring advice to banks and special situation funds looking to provide capital to distressed and insolvent companies, advising lenders and funds with existing exposure to distressed situations, advice to insolvency practitioners (both pre and post appointment), and conduct of R&I-related and general commercial legal proceedings.
Gavin also has significant experience representing clients in litigious matters and formal court proceedings, having acted on a variety of commercial disputes (from very large complex mandates, through to smaller matters), with particular expertise in disputes involving contract interpretation, insolvency recovery and voidable claims, directors' duties issues, trust issues, Corporations Act matters, and misleading and deceptive conduct claims.
Provided by Chambers
Gavin Rakoczy has a strong practice advising clients in relation to complex restructuring issues. He has notable strength in relation to litigious issues.
Provided by Chambers
Gavin is a problem-solver that brings unique solutions to complex problems, while maintaining commerciality in these solutions.
He is really good at putting forward his ideas and he's always proactive.
Gavin is a problem-solver that brings unique solutions to complex problems, while maintaining commerciality in these solutions.
He is really good at putting forward his ideas and he's always proactive.
