Experience

Mackay Chapman

• Australia
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  Director and founder of Mackay Chapman. Mackay Chapman is a boutique firm established to provide specialist expertise coupled with flexibility and agility, to deliver clients with practical outcomes tailored to their specific needs. We provide legal, advisory and consultancy services (including project management) and we specialise in: • Complex and high impact disputes and litigation in superior courts • General commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution • Hostile transactions and asset acquisitions • Investments, managed investment schemes and managed funds • Distressed assets, investment restructuring and investment related insolvency • Financial services • Regulation – corporate, financial services, competition • Administrative and public law and policy • Corporate and financial services internal and external investigations • Representative actions • Strategic advice • Asset protection • Risk and threat management We deliver strategic, focused and practical outcomes for clients which range from large institutions, listed companies, fund managers and responsible entities, to individuals who have suffered investment loss or whose wealth is at risk.



Mills Oakley

• Australia
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2016

  Between July 2014 and July 2016 I was a partner in the Financial Services team at Mills Oakley Lawyers leading the team's litigation and dispute resolution.I specialised in:• Complex and high impact disputes in the financial services, agribusiness and funds management/managed investment scheme sectors – large scale investment failures and losses, hostile takeovers and defensive strategies, representative proceedings and recovery actions• Distressed assets and investments• Managed investment schemes and managed funds – structuring and restructuring, insolvency, acquisitions and takeovers, shareholder/member and investor actions, recovery action for and against responsible entities/fund managers• General investment disputes and litigation – Federal and Supreme, County Courts, FOS, Takeovers Panel• Regulatory actions and investigations (ASIC, APRA)• Strategic advice in relation to all aspects of financial services – regulatory issues and investigations, disputes and potential disputes, structuring and restructuring of managed investment schemes/managed funds, investment trusts and investment vehicles, distressed assets, takeovers and defensive actions

• Senior Associate, Financial Services

  • 2012 - Jun 2014

  As a senior associate in the Financial Services team at Mills Oakley Lawyers Melbourne I lead the team's litigation and dispute resolution services and specialised in MIS insolvency and reconstruction, related litigation, recovery actions for and against responsible entities and for MIS members, MIS takeover and restructure, regulatory actions and general financial services disputes and strategic advice.


Clarendon Lawyers
• Australia
• Law Practice
• Senior Associate

  • Jul 2010 - Feb 2012

ASIC
• Colombia
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Lawyer

  • Apr 2007 - Jul 2010


Office of Public Prosecutions

• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Lawyer

  • Apr 2005 - Mar 2007

• Articled Clerk

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2005