Emma has more than 35 years experience of managing complex commercial disputes and litigation across banking, property, insurance and dealing with regulatory bodies, and leads SME loan and security enforcement for bank and financial services clients.

Biography

Emma acts for major Australian banks, financial institutions and corporate clients across commercial disputes, enforcement proceedings, banking and property litigation, and insolvency matters.

Her practice spans commercial contractual claims, property and leasing disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct proceedings, banking enforcement, mortgage recovery and insolvency litigation. She has carriage of matters from initial instruction through to final hearing, managing strategy, evidence and advocacy across each stage.

With more than 35 years of experience, her practice has included appearances in the Federal Court, NSW Court of Appeal and state superior courts, across matters involving significant contested factual and legal issues. She manages complex multi-party proceedings and high-value disputes for institutional clients with exacting standards for quality and turnaround.

Emma brings depth of experience that is rare at the coalface of banking and commercial litigation. Her understanding of major bank clients' internal requirements, risk frameworks and reporting obligations informs how she runs matters, not just how she advises on them. That institutional familiarity, built over more than three decades, is what repeat clients rely on.

Credentials

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Emma's experience

Major Australian bank — NSW Court Supreme Court

Acted for two of Australia's major banks in high profile NSW Supreme Court proceedings involving  a priority dispute between secured mortgagees and a strata lender in the wind up of the strata. This was valued at approximately $20 million.