Tony Troiani is a commercial litigator with over 20 years’ experience. He is a partner in the Melbourne centre. Described as an “eminent practitioner” with the ability to “bring people and solutions together” (ALB, Insolvency and Restructuring Law), Tony has a high profile practice specialising in insolvency matters. He has acted in all forms of administration appointments including liquidators, provisional liquidators, receivers and managers, agents for mortgagee and voluntary administrators. Tony is expert in deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangement, informal workouts and a range of matters associated with complex corporate restructurings and insolvencies.
Tony recently led a Mallesons’ team of insolvency and M&A specialists, acting for the administrators of Opes Prime on a ground breaking scheme of arrangement. Tony advised on all stages of the court hearings, which involved 13 different contradictors and the need to elicit cooperation from a large number of parties. The scheme also involved several novel aspects (eg detailed calculation rules to expedite creditors’ claims, and a contractual solution to enable enforceability against foreign creditors).
Tony has also recently acted on the Kleins Jewellery Group administration and Cornerstone Pubs receiverships.
According to Chambers Global Guide 2010, Tony "is praised by peers as 'sensible, practical and technically excellent' ". This is reflected in the advice he provides to debtors and creditors regarding possible recovery actions, priority disputes, asset tracing, constructive trust claims, corporations law applications, injunctions, contract disputes and liquidator recovery actions such as voidable transactions and attacks on phoenix structures.
Tony's work otherwise involves all forms of commercial dispute resolution, including litigation in all court jurisdictions, negotiation and mediation. He practises in areas which include banking, contract disputes and professional negligence.
Tony has been nominated as a leading individual in the area of Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR 1000 2010. APL 500 2010 also rates Tony highly and he is recommended by Chambers Global Guide 2009 and 2010.