Industry Participation

Dibbs are the honorary lawyers to the Overseas Bankers Association of Australia.

We are also active members of Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia (IPAA) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL).

Dibbs currently holds a representative position on the ASIC Financial Services Reform Consultative Committee.

Our members also participate within the following industry bodies:

• Law Council of Australia: Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee
• Inter Pacific Bar Association: Insolvency Group
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia - 2006
• Bankers and Financial Services Law Association
• The Academics Group of Insol International
• Banking Committee of Union de Advocate
•  Financial Services Institute of Australasia

Publications

A member of our Group was appointed a joint editor of Weaver and Craigie Banking Law and Practice, which is the principal Australia Text.

Recent publications also include:

• Tracing and Freezing Assets in Aid of Litigation – UIA Seminar October 2007
• Intersection between UNCITRAL and Chapter 15 of the new United States Banking Code – Australia Insolvency Journal, March 2007
• Mortgagee ordered to pay damages (in relation to the sale of land) – Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice

Seminars

Our Group has held speaking roles at numerous seminars for the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and other external industry seminar providers on a variety of insolvency issues.

We have also supported numerous industry participants and clients through in-house training and education programs, including for Deloittes, KPMG, Korda Mentha, Pilot Partners, Grant Thornton, Vouris and Bell, Lawler Partners, and SimsPartners on related matters.

Other participation

Dibbs had the honour of being invited to take part in a consultative group established by the then Attorney General, The Hon Philip Ruddock MP. The role of the committee was to assist the Attorney General to develop a single national law concerning personal property securities. The committee is continuing its work under the new government.