Stewart J Maiden QC | Victorian Bar

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Date of Admission:

15 Dec 2000

First Signed Bar Roll:

21 Nov 2002

Date Appointed Silk:

23 Nov 2017

Division of Bar Roll:

Victorian Practising Counsel

Qualifications:

BA, LLB (Hons) (Qld); GDLP (ANU); LLM (Melb); Fellow INSOL International

Previous Occupation:

Solicitor

Accepts briefs from in-house counsel

Profile:

Stewart practises in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on insolvency law. He has a broad appearance and advice practice which encompasses cross-border and domestic insolvency, securities class actions, fiduciary and fraud-related actions, banking and finance disputes, corporate control disputes and general commercial litigation. Clients and instructors recognise him as being numerate, articulate and approachable.

Doyle's Guide recognises Stewart as a pre-eminent senior counsel in its ranking of Victorian insolvency and reconstruction silks, and as leading senior counsel in its list of commercial litigation and dispute resolution barristers. Chambers Global includes him as one of only four Melbourne silks in its rankings of Australian insolvency and restructuring barristers.

Stewart is a ministerial appointee to the insolvency practitioner disciplinary committees which rule on the registration and discipline of liquidators under the Corporations Act 2001 (C'th).

He is widely published. He edited and co-authored the book Insolvent Investments (LexisNexis, 2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Insolvency Law Journal and writes the chapter on private international law for McPherson's Law of Company Liquidation. He has published articles in journals including the Australian Law Journal, International Corporate Rescue, the Insolvency Law Journal, the Company and Securities Law Journal and the Australian Bar Review, several of which have been cited in superior court judgments. And he is Australia's national correspondent on cross-border insolvency for CLOUT (UNCITRAL's official database of case law concerning UNCITRAL texts).

He is also:

a Fellow of INSOL International (having achieved the highest result of the class of 2009-10 in INSOL's Global Insolvency Practice Course);
Honorary Treasurer of the Victorian Bar, and a member of the Bar Council;
Junior Vice-President of the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria;
a member of the Victorian Bar’s Ethics Committee;
a member of the International Insolvency Institute;
a member of the Law Council of Australia's Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee;
a Professional Member of the Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association; and
a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

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Stewart's assistant, Julie Godenzi, can be contacted on (03) 9225 7049 or at maidensec@vicbar.com.au.

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