Grant Whatley

Grant is a Partner who specialises in working with clients in insolvency, banking litigation and regulatory enforcement situations.

Grant regularly acts for financial institutions and insolvency practitioners in relation to financial exposures across many industries. He also regularly works with financial institutions, directors, board members and officers in financial regulatory enforcement matters.

Grant’s extensive experience in commercial disputes also makes him keenly aware of the challenges faced by clients in delivering their strategic priorities, irrespective of whether it is achieved through a consensual or disputed process.

Grant also has vast international and cross-border insolvency and dispute resolution experience covering the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. In particular, Grant spent over 5 years at a pre-eminent international law firm based in London. While working in London, Grant was involved in all aspects of the HIH Schemes of Arrangement from an English perspective, as well as all stages of the HIH cross-border case that was ultimately determined by the House of Lords.

More recently Grant led our team that jointly assisted a leading Bank in relation to its response to the Royal Commission into misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services industry.

Grant has regularly been named in Best Lawyers™ Australia for Insolvency and Reorganisation Law and Doyles Insolvency Guide.