Ryan Jameson

Ryan is an experienced commercial junior who accepts unled and led briefs in commercial, insolvency and corporations disputes, as well as in representative proceedings and family law property matters.

Whilst Ryan practices widely in all areas of commercial law, he specialises in insolvency and company law. He is regularly briefed in complex shareholder disputes (including claims for breach of directors’ duties), as well as in proceedings concerning large external administrations where he represents insolvency practitioners, creditors and other interested parties. He also accepts briefs to appear in relation to schemes of arrangement.

Some recent cases in which Ryan has appeared include:

• representing the administrators of IG Power (Callide) Ltd, a joint venturer operating the Callide C Power Station with entities associated with the Queensland Government;
• representing the plaintiff shareholder and director in oppression proceedings concerning a dispute in respect of a private equity fund;
• representing defendant shareholders in a shareholders’ dispute concerning the Nature’s Care Group;
• representing the former Chairman of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd in a securities class action, including on appeal to the High Court of Australia concerning the question of power to make a common fund order in favour of solicitors; and
• representing the liquidators of Max Brenner in “mothership” voidable transaction proceedings.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Ryan was a solicitor at Allens in the Disputes and Investigations Department and the Tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Black of the Supreme Court of NSW.