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  • Beau Deleuil

    Managing Partner, DR
    Sydney
    T: +61 2 9296 2165
    M: +61 408 867 043
 

 Professional Biography

 
  • Beau Deleuil is one of the firm's Managing Partners responsible for the Dispute Resolution group as well as client and markets. Beau has been a Managing Partner since February 2012 and is currently based in the Sydney office.

    Prior to his appointment, Beau was the Partner in Charge of the firm's Perth office, working in the national Dispute Resolution team and providing assistance on contentious and insolvency-related matters to large corporates and clients in the financial services and property sectors. Beau specialises in commercial litigation, with a particular focus on insolvency, banking, professional indemnity and competition law, including pricing, access and regulatory matters.

    Beau has taken lead roles in a wide range of significant insolvency and commercial litigation matters. He has acted in continuous disclosure prosecutions, energy and resources matters, internal and external fraud investigations, access and regulatory claims and claims and prosecutions and proceedings under trade practices legislation.

    Beau has been recognised as a leading individual in insolvency, restructuring and litigation by a range of publications, including IFLR 1000 2008 and 2009, Chambers Global Guide 2008 and 2009 and Best Lawyers 2008 and 2009. He is a long standing member of the firm's Practice Excellence Committee and also sits on the firm's Partnership Admissions Committee. He appears regularly before the Superior Courts and is a mediator accredited by LEADR.

 

 Experience

 
  • 1992: Bachelor of Laws degree, University of Western Australia
  • 1993: Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Perth
  • 1997 - 2000: Senior Associate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Perth
  • 2001 - present: Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Perth
  • 2008 - 2011: Partner in Charge, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Perth
  • 2012 - present: Managing Partner, King & Wood Mallesons, Sydney, Clients and Markets
  • Beau has given numerous papers in external seminars, including IES LexisNexis conferences and the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia. He has also given a number of papers to the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association and to in-house teams at Westpac, National Australia Bank Limited, Wesfarmers and Woodside.
  • Beau has given numerous papers in external seminars, including IES LexisNexis conferences and the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia. He has also given a number of papers to the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association and to in-house teams at Westpac, National Australia Bank Limited, Wesfarmers and Woodside.
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • Acting on behalf of ASIC in continuous disclosure civil penalties actions against Fortescue Metals Group
  • Macquarie Bank and other key financiers in relation to the administrations of Sons of Gwalia Limited, Croesus Mining and Copperco
  • BHP Billiton in relation to the administration and recapitalisation of the HenryWalkerEltin Group of Companies
  • Telstra Corporation's National Insolvency Unit on a number of national and international insolvency related matters (including the Iridium collapse) and contentious issues generally
  • Korda Mentha, the receivers and managers of the Epic Energy Group (then owners of the Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline), on several significant contentious matters and contractual and regulatory issues
  • Acting for Forest Products Commission in relation to disputes and insolvency issues with harvesting and supply customers including arbitrations and mediations
  • National Australia Bank, Westpac and St George on numerous insolvency and contentious matters (particularly concerning listed and public companies) and providing general ongoing advice
 

 Professional Memberships

 
  • The Law Society of Western Australia
  • International Bar Association
  • INSOL (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals)
  • LEADR (Association of Dispute Resolvers)