Stewart J Maiden KC

Practice Areas

Stewart Maiden KC is a preeminent commercial law trial and appellate advocate.

He specialises in complex commercial litigation, and has a broad appeal, trial and advice practice which includes cross-border and domestic insolvency, fiduciary and fraud-related actions, banking and finance disputes, corporate control disputes, corporate governance matters, class actions and general commercial litigation. Clients and instructors recognise him as being numerate, articulate and approachable.

Stewart edited and co-authored the book Insolvent Investments (LexisNexis, 2015). He writes the chapter on private international law for McPherson's Law of Company Liquidation, and serves on the editorial boards of the Insolvency Law Journal and the International Insolvency Review. Several of his many law journal articles have been cited in superior court judgments. And he is Australia's national correspondent on cross-border insolvency for CLOUT (UNCITRAL's official database of case law concerning UNCITRAL texts).

Liability limited by a scheme approved by Professional Standards Legislation

Professional Memberships

Victorian Bar Representative Legal Costs Committee

Fellow of INSOL International

Fellow of the Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association

Member of the International Insolvency Institute

Member of the Law Council of Australia's Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee

Member of the Turnaround Management Association Australia; and

Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Stewart has previously served on the Insolvency Practitioner Disciplinary Committees constituted under the Corporations Act, as a ministerial appointee from 2017 to 2020; the Joint Expert Group on Enhancing Cross-border Insolvency Co-operation convened by the governments of Australia and New Zealand, from 2010 to 2012; the Legal Costs Committee constituted under the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act, as the representative of the Victorian Bar (continuing); the Victorian Bar Council for four years (including a year as its Honorary Treasurer); the Commercial Bar Association Executive (including two years as its President); and the Ethics Committee of the Victorian Bar for seven years.