Peter is a senior commercial litigator with expertise in corporate insolvency, creditor recoveries and strata title communities. He is an experienced advisor on the National Consumer Credit Protection Act and the Personal Property Securities Act and strata title communities laws, and acts in credit, finance and strata title community schemes related litigation.
Peter’s experience in Personal Property Securities, Credit Law and Insolvency exceeds 20 years, having held senior positions in national and international law firms throughout his career.
Peter advises a wide range of clients, including trade suppliers, builders and sub-contractors, motor dealerships, accountants, Agri businesses, private financiers, controllers (voluntary administrators and liquidators), strata title community schemes, SMEs, subsidiaries of local and overseas companies and other law firms.
Peter is a former President in the Queensland Division of the Australian Institute of Credit Management (AICM), and he has been a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Banking and Financial Services Committee for over 10 years.
Peter is a Working Group Member of the UK Secured Transactions Law Reform Project which aims to examine and consider future reform in English Law relating to secured transactions.
Peter sees his role as an opportunity to do work that he loves for clients he enjoys working with. He is passionate about achieving the best outcome for his clients, helping his clients secure and recover debts and assets, and strengthen their balance sheets, by effecting efficient compliance and enforcement under relevant laws.
Peter joined Keypoint in 2024 and is based in Brisbane.
Expertise
- Corporate Insolvency
- Creditor Recoveries
- Personal Property Securities Act
- National Consumer Credit Protection Act
- Strata Title Community Scheme disputes
- Litigation
- Commercial Disputes (Credit and Finance)
Experience
- acting as the lead lawyer in major disputes involving issues of who gets paid first (including from the assets of insolvent companies) and fraudulent transactions, on behalf of and against the Australian Taxation Office, cattle producers, commodities traders, foreign governments, foreign trustees in bankruptcy, mining companies, financiers and banks;
- acting for the South Korean controller of Hanjin Shipping, as to protection of its vessels in Australia and recognition of a foreign appointee by the Federal Court under the UNCITRAL laws;
- advising SMEs, public companies, foreign companies and liquidators on cost efficient compliance and enforcement of rights under the PPS Act and equivalent laws in other countries;
- advising growers in Australia’s largest Sandalwood Trees managed investment scheme when the “house of cards” collapsed;
- advising Australia’s largest island based mixed use and multi-tier strata title community scheme, as to disputes concerning caretaker & management disputes, and unlawful acts, arrangements, appointments & conduct by various community scheme committees; and
- advising clients on arbitration disputes as a cost-efficient manner of resolving disputes.
Recognition
- AICM National Award for Services in relation to PPS (2010)
- Inaugural AICM Marion Hintz Meritous Service Award (2013)
Career
| 2024 – present | Keypoint Law | Consulting Principal |
| 2021 -2024 | LawSolve | Special Counsel |
| 2018 – 2021 | Thynne + Macartney Lawyers | Special Counsel |
| 2013 – 2018 | Thomson Geer Lawyers | Special Counsel |
| 2010 – 2013 | Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers| Principal |
| 2007 – 2010 | Mills Oakley | Partner |
| 2004 – 2007 | Jones King Lawyers | Senior Associate |
| 2000 – 2004 | Blake Dawson (now Ashurst) | Senior Lawyer |