Gavin Rakoczy is a restructuring and insolvency (R&I) and disputes lawyer with close to 20 years’ experience acting for companies, lenders and funds in the R&I space.

He has had a lead role in many of Australia’s most complicated restructures and distressed situations, including Virgin, Arrium, Sydney Light Rail, RCR Tomlinson, Surfstitch, Angas, ION, McAleese, Paladin, and Forge.

His practice spans the full spectrum of R&I, encompassing both front-end and back-end advice, including:

• assisting distressed companies via informal (solvent) and formal (insolvent) restructuring;
• providing structuring advice to banks and special situation funds looking to provide capital to distressed and insolvent companies;
• advising lenders and funds with existing exposure to distressed situations;
• advice to insolvency practitioners (both pre and post appointment); and
• conduct of R&I-related proceedings.