Jemma Huntsman
Special Counsel | Perth
Dispute Resolution | Insolvency and Securities Enforcement
Jemma specialises in corporate insolvency and restructuring, acting for insolvency practitioners, secured lenders and other stakeholders in relation to all forms of external administration and informal turnaround.
Jemma has experience in providing advice to insolvency practitioners and financial institutions on group structures, enforcement strategies and recovery.
Jemma has experience in commercial litigation in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the Federal Court of Australia in a variety of matters, most significantly in defended liquidator claims and court appointed receiverships.
She was a national recipient of Houlihan Lokey-TMA Scholarship Program in 2024 and was sponsored by Women Lawyers Western Australia to attend the Australian Women’s Lawyers National Conference in 2019.
Experience
Jemma’s experience includes advising:
- Voluntary Administrators and Deed Administrators in all respects of their appointments including advising and documenting complex restructures via deed of company arrangement, including section 444GA applications for the approval of the transfer of shares;
- Liquidators in all respects of their appointments including acting in significant defended liquidator claims for insolvent trading and the recovery of unfair preferences requiring complex legal advice, negotiations of settlement offers and largescale private mediation experience and Court appearances;
- Court Appointed Receivers following application by ASIC in complex and high stakes external administration;
- Appointees in respect of the rules and powers under the Corporations Act with respect to meeting procedure, reporting obligations and adjudication of creditor claims;
- An investor/creditor group in a complex liquidated ponzi scheme with respect to the distribution methodology of available funds;
- Major banks in relation to complex enforcements, securities and general defended litigation in respect of a claims both for and against Banks;
- Directors on their obligations and asset protection strategies; and
- Creditors on debt recovery avenues including applications to wind up including on just and equitable grounds in the instance of board and shareholder deadlock.