Chairman & Managing Partner
Michael commenced practice in 1981 and is the founding partner of O’Neill Partners. Known as an excellent strategic thinker, Michael acts for administrators, liquidators, bankruptcy trustees and other insolvency practitioners as well as secured and unsecured creditors. Michael also advises private individuals, boards and company directors on all aspects of corporate and insolvency law, ranging from preference recoveries to complex misfeasance proceedings.
Michael specialises in dispute resolution and commercial litigation. He tenaciously advocates for our clients’ interests and has handled matters in all jurisdictions including the High Court, Federal Court and the Supreme Courts. Michael has experience running all manner of commercial matters including corporations law applications, contractual disputes and recovery matters for lenders. Michael has acted on many complex and high-profile insolvencies throughout his legal career.
Partner
Grant has practiced in the areas of corporate and personal insolvency, litigation and debt recovery since 1999, both in Australia and in the UK. Grant’s experience includes three years in the Special Investigations and Strategic Litigation branch of the Attorney General’s Department, London. Grant was the legal practitioner director of a wholly owned subsidiary law firm of a publicly listed company, heading up their NSW legal team. He additionally held an in-house counsel role advising on compliance, regulatory and privacy issues, drafting contracts, deeds, publications and press releases.
Grant now leads O’Neill Partners’ Sydney team’s high-volume litigation portfolio and advises numerous private commercial clients as well as retailers, wholesalers, schools, financiers, charities, bankruptcy trustees, administrators and liquidators. Grant’s drafting skills are renowned, but he is best-known for his clarity of expression, his commitment to clients and his ability to ensure complex problems remain simple.
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Executive Assistant and Legal Secretary
80+ years of experience
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