Georgia Boyce

Expertise

Georgia is an experienced commercial disputes, insolvency and restructuring lawyer who advises corporate and government clients, lenders, creditors, directors and insolvency practitioners. She acts in complex commercial litigation and corporate insolvency and restructuring matters, including proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of Victoria and County Court of Victoria, as well as negotiations, mediations and other dispute resolution processes.

Georgia has particular expertise in corporate insolvency and restructuring, including security interests, bank guarantees, syndicated lending, the Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA), directors’ duties and the duties and powers of insolvency practitioners. Her experience encompasses formal and informal restructuring and insolvency processes, secured and unsecured creditor issues and strategies for the recovery of assets and debts from insolvent estates.

Her broader commercial disputes practice includes contractual disputes, property disputes, expert determination processes, misleading and deceptive conduct claims and disputes arising from corporate transactions. She is experienced in advising clients before proceedings commence and developing strategies for negotiation, mediation and litigation.

Georgia also has significant regulatory and government experience. She has contributed subject matter expertise to policy and law reform initiatives.

Her experience also extends to regulatory investigations and compulsory notices, Royal Commissions and financial services regulation.

Georgia regularly works with insolvency practitioners, secured lenders, creditors, directors, government departments, counsel and independent experts. She takes a practical strategic approach to disputes, assessing potential commercial recoveries alongside litigation costs, precedent risk and the potential impact of protracted proceedings.

Experience

Georgia’s experience includes:

• acting for corporate clients and property developers in complex commercial disputes and litigation in the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of Victoria and County Court of Victoria, as well as advising on disputes prior to proceedings, expert determination processes, negotiations and mediations
• acting for secured and unsecured creditors, directors and insolvency practitioners in insolvency and restructuring matters involving security interests, bank guarantees, syndicated lending, PPSA issues, and the duties and powers of insolvency practitioners
• acting for the defendant in a complex multi-party property dispute in the Supreme Court of Victoria
• acting for the purchaser of a business in resolving a protracted dispute concerning the calculation of an earn-out amount under a share sale agreement, involving expert determination processes, breach of warranty and misleading or deceptive conduct claims
• acting in relation to the Victorian Legal Services Board’s appointment of an external intervention to an insolvent law firm, including overseeing the orderly transition of clients and appropriate handling of trust accounts
• advising and acting in relation to a derivative proceeding in relation to breach of directors' duties claims brought in the Federal Court
• advising on strategies to recover Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) advances from insolvent estates, including matters involving the characterisation and distribution of assets, security interests, directors’ duties, corporate groups and restructuring
• acting in Department of Employment and Workplace Relations v Howell, in the Matter of Castel Electronics Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 566, which resulted in recovery of the full FEG advance by establishing that a judgment debt was a circulating asset under the PPSA
• acting for the administration of a high profile construction company and pooled deed of company arrangement involving 88 entities
• acting for secured lenders on enforcement and recovery of secured debt following the administration and liquidation of a coal mining group
• acting for a big four bank and receivers from KPMG in the receivership of an ASX-listed food producer, including achieving favourable outcomes in a PPSA dispute involving a chain of asset financing and assisting with sales of farming property and associated water rights
• acting for a secured lender and receivers from FTI in the receivership of a renewable energy company in Western Australia, including resolving disputes with the WA Forest Products Commission and energy providers
• acting for an aged care provider responding to production notices issued by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
• acting for major banks on syndicated lending restructures, including amendments to security trust deeds and finance documents and assisting with debt sales
• advising on regulatory investigations and notices to produce issued by ASIC and the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission
• advising on financial services regulation, including Australian Financial Services Licence requirements, disclosure obligations, adviser remuneration, APRA prudential standards, ASX listing requirements, investment funds and regulatory investigations
• contributing subject matter expertise to law reform initiatives, including the Australian Government’s response to the statutory review of the PPSA and reforms concerning corporate misuse of the Fair Entitlements Guarantee.

Membership

• TMA (Turnaround Management Association) 
• WIRV (Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria)
• Law Council of Australia (Business Law Section, Insolvency & Restructuring Committee)