Emma-Jane is a financial services, insolvency and reconstruction lawyer with more than 20 years acting for major banks and lenders. She leads Faculti’s volume small business claims for bank and financial services clients.

Biography

Emma-Jane acts for major Australian banks, financial institutions and lenders on contentious banking, insolvency and recovery matters. She also advises insolvency practitioners and acts as leading counsel in Faculti's volume SME claims program across Victoria.

Her practice spans corporate and personal insolvency, contentious banking disputes, complex security enforcement and reconstruction work. She manages both litigated and non-litigated enforcement assignments, defends claims against banks involving fraud, misleading conduct and security positions, and advises insolvency practitioners on their appointments and administration obligations.

Her work covers complex enforcement assignments across Victoria for major banks, including contested security positions on personal and commercial property, mortgage fraud matters involving concurrent criminal and civil proceedings, and damages claims arising from alleged bank misconduct. She leads Faculti's volume SME claims program, combining high-volume delivery capability with carriage of contested and technically complex matters.

Emma-Jane brings more than 20 years of focused experience advising major banks on contentious banking, insolvency and complex enforcement work, operating across both the volume end of the recovery market and complex one-off disputes. Her dual capability, managing high-volume programs at scale while carrying technically demanding contested matters, is what distinguishes her practice within Faculti's financial services offering.

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Emma-Jane's experience

Bookkeeper fraud damages claim

Defending a damages claim against a major bank regarding a customer’s bookkeeper fraud conducted using an online facility.

Misleading and deceptive conduct claims

Defending damages claims against banks for misleading and deceptive conduct, with connected security enforcement claims.

Contentious banking disputes and complex recovery

Acting for banks and financial institutions in contentious banking disputes and complex recovery actions, including both commercial and associated personal lending.

Mortgage fraud series

Acting for a bank regarding a series of mortgage frauds involving fictitious borrowers, with concurrent involvement of the Victorian Police Fraud Squad, multiple banks and financial institutions, insurers and the Registrar of Titles Victoria.

Awards, recognition and ranking