Patrick Dunn
Associate Corporate & Finance
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Patrick Dunn is a lawyer who is driven to find practical, economical and efficient solutions to commercial and legal challenges. He understands the importance of identifying what his client wants from a transaction, negotiation or dispute and focusing his approach on achieving his client’s goal.
Patrick is part of our Restructuring & Special Situations team. He has substantial experience assisting insolvency practitioners, creditors and debtors through corporate and personal restructurings and insolvencies and acting on a broad range of commercial disputes.
Patrick has worked for clients from a wide variety of industries including financial services providers such as the major banks, non-bank lenders and brokers, insolvency practitioners, supermarket groups, property developers and agricultural investors. As a result, he can quickly develop an understanding of his clients’ specific needs and communicate clearly about complex legal issues in commercial terms.
He is well-regarded by his clients for being relatable, easy to deal with, clear and, most importantly, commercially-minded.
Patrick is also passionate about the pro bono space and in 2021 was recognised for his work coordinating the Trans and Gender Diverse Legal Service, Australia’s first pro bono legal service for the trans and gender diverse community, by being nominated as a finalist in the Pro Bono category for the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards.
Representative experience
Advising a debt fund on the refinancing via secured private note issuance of Croatian food retailer Fortenova’s c. €1.2bn existing facilities
Advising a clearing bank on the high-profile restructuring of a £1bn+ exposure to the Telegraph and other businesses owned by the Barclay family
Advising a major creditor on Part 26A restructuring plan in respect of Tameside Hospital
Advising creditors in respect of Part 26A restructuring plans for high profile German property groups Adler and Aggregate
Advising Liquidators of Max Brenner (MB Australia Pty Limited)
Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Gooley v NSW Rural Assistance Authority (No 3) [2019] NSWSC 1314 and on appeal on Gooley v NSW Rural Assistance Authority [2020] NSWCA 156*
Advising a major Australian bank in respect of exposure to Dyldam Group facilities*
Advising a national Australian supermarket group on restructurings of distressed credit facilities with franchisee supermarket operators*
Credentials
- Bachelor of Laws, The University of Sydney, 2017
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Sydney, 2014
- Supreme Court of New South Wales
- High Court of Australia