Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Angelo Conti

Managing Principal
Angelo Conti

Angelo is Managing Principal of Madgwicks and a Principal in the Dispute Resolution and Litigation team. With around 30 years in practice, he acts on insolvency, restructuring, banking and finance, and complex commercial disputes.

With extensive experience in high-profile corporate collapses, Angelo combines technical precision with a pragmatic, commercially driven approach. He acts for banks, private credit funds and other lenders, investor groups, court-appointed trustees, provisional liquidators, receivers and administrators, as well as creditors, large corporates, high-net-worth individuals and family groups. His work covers loan and security documentation, PPSR, guarantees, mortgagee sales, judicial sales and security enforcement, court directions on realising assets, and recovering funds from failed managed investment schemes.

Angelo is known for resolving matters others had considered unsolvable. He helps clients under financial strain assess their position early, negotiate with stakeholders and restructure their affairs, drawing on a network of advisers, financiers and industry specialists.

He writes regularly on private credit, secured lending and insolvency, including ASIC’s review of private credit funds, late PPSR registration, and when a liquidator’s funding costs rank ahead of secured lenders.

Angelo is one of Madgwicks’ Meritas contacts and works with Meritas firms worldwide on cross-border enforcement, recovery, restructuring and disputes.

Focus Areas

  • Banking and finance
  • Borrowers, lenders, guarantors and directors’ actions
  • Building, construction and infrastructure
  • Capital raising and corporate finance
  • Construction and project funding
  • Debt recovery and creditor rights
  • Directors’ duties and insolvent trading
  • Insolvency and reconstruction
  • Loan agreements and security documentation
  • PPSR and personal property securities
  • Private credit and fund disputes
  • Property finance
  • Regulatory compliance and investigations
  • Securities and loan recoveries enforcement

Notable Matters

  • Acting for groups of investors in failed managed investment schemes, including litigation against the trustees and related parties. For investors in the iProsperity Group, this produced very successful recoveries.
  • Acting for independent trustees appointed by the courts over significant trusts. This includes obtaining the court’s directions on realising trust assets and dealing with competing interests.
  • Acting for independently appointed provisional liquidators and receivers on similar matters, including Vasco Trustees on the appointment of receivers and provisional liquidators to the IPO Wealth group.
  • Acting for voluntary administrators to obtain Federal Court of Australia orders allowing the sale of a group’s business and assets that were subject to PPSR registrations. The orders let the administrators give good title to the purchaser without releases from multiple all present and after-acquired property (ALLPAP) and other secured parties, while preserving those parties’ rights to trace their claims to the sale proceeds.
  • Acting for secured lenders to obtain orders for judicial sale where the loan and security documents had not been properly drafted to perfect their security.
  • Acting for a 50% shareholder in the landowner of a significant CBD-fringe building after his co-shareholder went missing and the lender appointed receivers and managers. Angelo’s client took control of the entity, refinanced and ended the receivership.
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