Essential Skills: Insolvency Law
Voidable transactions & recovery proceedings

The pursuit of voidable transactions are a critical part of a liquidator’s toolkit for improving returns to creditors and achieving more equitable outcomes in a winding up.

This course provides an overview of the forms of voidable transactions and then focuses on a number of specific legal issues which commonly arise in recovery proceedings for voidable transactions, including proving insolvency, commonly-pleaded defences, procedural issues, and funding and assigning recovery actions.

Learning objectives

At the end of this course you will understand:

• The various forms of voidable transaction provisions available to a liquidator (including the new creditor defeating disposition)
• The law relating to – and practical challenges in – proving 'insolvency’
• Statutory presumptions of insolvency which may assist a recovery action.
• Some legal issues associated with liquidators’ insolvency reports (e.g. evidentiary issues, admissibility).
• Key authorities and principles relating to the 'no reasonable grounds to suspect insolvency’ defence in s 588FG(2) of the Corporations Act.
• Some key procedural issues (including limitation periods and 'mothership' proceedings)
• Legal issues with litigation funding arrangements and the new ILRA 'right to assign' liquidator claims.

Prerequisites

You must have a basic level of knowledge about the range of potential voidable transactions and recovery actions, including insolvent trading. 

CPE

TBC - maximum of 2 CPE verifiable hours. 

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