Amanda Banton Email & Phone Number

Amanda’s practice covers corporate/commercial disputes emphasising Corporations and trade practices legislation, insolvency, negligence and contractual disputes. She advises financial institutions and external administrators including Basis Yield Alpha Fund, Deloitte, KPMG, KordaMentha and McGrath Nicol. She is retained in respect of collapsed funds including City Pacific, LM and Equititrust and in major liquidations including HPL and Forge. She also acts in high profile corporate collapses including Arrium, Forge Group, Lehman Bros, LM, Octaviar and Equititrust.She is renowned for complex financial instruments litigation, particularly involving collateralised debt obligations or synthetic collateralised debt obligations rated or sold by Fitch's Ratings, Lehman’s Bros, Standard & Poor’s, ANZ and CBA. Amanda successfully applied to add claims of fraud and deceit against both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings; subsequently both matters were settled in record payouts. Had either proceeded to trial and the claim been proven, it would have defeated the limitation defence. This development has worldwide implications. Claimants likely now have additional time to bring proceedings against the ratings agencies for losses on their pre-crisis-era credit ratings of SCDOs. Amanda is also credited with the development of a body of case law on non-apportionable claims under s1041E of the Corporations .The Chambers and Partners Guide 2020 quotes that in respect of dispute resolution in Australia, Amanda Banton in Sydney maintains her position as one of the most immediately recognisable names where the representation of class action plaintiffs is concerned, one client characterising her as a "very personable, very direct, good communicator," while another simply observes: "She'll fight for you." Peers identify her as "an adversary we respect" with "a great ability to recall the minute details of a transaction," even under high-pressure circumstances.CONNECT WITH AMANDAbantongroup.com

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  Adelaide University

  Commerce Law