Jonathon Redwood SC

Jonathon has almost 30 years’ experience in legal practice.

He maintains a broad national practice encompassing advice and appearance work in: (i) high value commercial disputes and class actions, (ii) appeals in all intermediate courts of appeal and the High Court; (iii) international arbitration and private international law; and (iv) public law, regulatory matters (including competition and consumer law) and commissions of inquiry.

He is regularly retained by leading law firms and corporate clients to conduct cases throughout Australia at first instance and on appeal, and internationally, including in arbitrations seated in Singapore, London and New York. He was Vice President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), the peak arbitral body in Australia from 2018 – 2025 . He is also a member of Twenty Essex in Singapore and London.

Some of his previous and ongoing clients include BHP Billiton, Caterpillar, CSR, James Hardie, AGL, ATCO, Allianz, McGrath Nicol, Korda Mentha, Chubb, Marsh, Vestas, Samsung, Kimberley Clarke, IOOF, NAB, KPMG, Patersons Securities, and Yara International. He also does a substantial amount of pro bono work for the Human Rights Law Centre.

Representative Matters

• Acted as lead counsel for the special purpose receiver in the $1 billion Banksia collapse for over 15 years involving dozens of parties and complex claims, reported judgments and landmark appeals in Victoria and NSW across all aspects of insolvency law, trusts and trustee duties, class actions, professional responsibility and fraud, directors duties, professional negligence (auditors, brokers, lawyers), M&A and banking and finance.

• Acting for a large European private equity fund in claims for breach of warranty against a large Australian public company arising from a $200 million M&A transaction.

• Acting as Senior Counsel to the administrators of Greensill (UK) in connection with the collapse of Greensill and complex claims brought in the Federal Court of Australia and the United Kingdom.

• Acting for shareholders in major appeal against Worley relating to loss and damage in shareholder class actions.

• Acting for Canaccord Genuity in 6 week trial and major appeal concerning claims of breach of fiduciary duty and knowing assistance of more than $100 million arising from the collapse of Ashington Property Group.

• Acting for Stone Axe (largest Wagyu producer in Australia) in successful claims in an international arbitration in connection with a major business acquisition.

• Acting for ATCO (Canada) in parallel international arbitrations in Australia and Canada involving highly complicated information technology contracts.

• Acting for IOOF in major regulatory proceedings brought by APRA arising out of Banking Royal Commission.

• Acting for Yara International in the Oswal Proceedings in Supreme Court of Victoria (largest proceedings ever brought in Victoria).

• Acting for Samsung in $1 billion ICC arbitration arising from the Roy Hill project in Western Australia, seated and heard in Singapore/London.

• Acting for BHP in large ICC iron ore price arbitrations seated in Singapore.

• Acting for ACICA, Australia’s peak arbitral body, in 5 separate High Court interventions across all aspects of arbitral law from 2012 to 2024.

• Acting for Angas Securities in complex proceedings in the Federal Court concerning several attempts over many years by trustee to appoint external administrators.

• Acting for Kimberley-Clark in successful defence and appeal in major regulatory proceedings brought by ACCC in Federal Court concerning flushable wipes.

• Acting for AGL in high-profile regulatory proceedings brought by ACCC in Federal Court relating to electricity pricing.

• Acting for NAB in Banking Royal Commission, Local Government in Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and the Commonwealth in the Disability Royal Commission.

• Various appointments in major appeals as amicus or contradictor New South Wales Court of Appeal, Victorian Court of Appeal and Federal Court.