Raini Zambelli is a corporate and commercial law barrister.  She has acted for large financial institutions, governments, and government agencies, corporate entities of all size, directors, joint ventures and partnerships.  Raini specialises in complex insolvency, financial and cross-border disputes and has over 18 years' litigation experience in Australia and across multiple European jurisdictions, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and the Americas.  Before coming to the Bar, Raini practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and in London.

She holds a Masters of Law majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration, is a qualified and practising mediator and was dux of her year in ARITA’s Insolvency Education Program.  She is admitted to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, is qualified as a mediator in the United Kingdom and in Australia (ADR Group and NMAS), and admitted as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrtors (MCiArb).

Raini has conducted significant litigation involving large-scale corporate collapses in the Supreme Court of Victoria and in the High Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. 

She also has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having spent two years seconded as in-house counsel to Royal Sun Alliance and to the Royal Bank of Scotland in London.

Raini is recognised for her technical excellence and client relationship skills by the following publications:

- Chambers & Partners, as a leader in the field of Restructuring & Insolvency in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020;

- Doyles Guide, as leading Insolvency & Restructuring Junior Counsel in 2018, 2019 and 2020;

- Doyles Guide, as leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and

- The Best Lawyers in Australia 2021 for her work in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

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Victorian Bar Committees

• Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee 2015 - 2017
• Arts & Collections Committee 2017 - 2020
• Bar Council 2019 - 2020
• Executive Committee of the Commercial Bar Association 2019 - present
• Insolvency Section Monitor of the Commercial Bar Association 2015 - 2019
• International Arbitration Committee 2017 - present
• Women Barristers' Association 2015 - present

Other Committees and Working Groups

• ACICA - the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration - Victorian State Committee
• International Committee of the Australian Bar Association
• Federal Court Corporations and Commercial Users' Group
• Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation / Dispute Settlement) 72nd Session in Vienna

Professional Memberships

• ARITA - the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (RITP)
• CiArb - the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCiArb)
• The Law Council of Australia
• INSOL International - the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals
• UNCCA - the UNCITRAL Coordination Committee for Australia
• WIRV - Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria