Karl Hill

Professional Biography

Karl is the Director of Results Legal Solutions and has a wealth of experience in corporate and personal insolvency, debt recovery and commercial litigation. Karl has completed a Bachelor of Laws (Class II A Honours) at James Cook University and is a solicitor in the Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia. He completed his honours thesis on the subject of voluntary administrations and arrangements under Part X of the Bankruptcy Act.

Experience

Areas of expertise

  • Debt recovery (trading debts, mortgages, charges, guarantees).
  • Property recovery (real, personal).
  • Corporate insolvency (winding up, receivership, voluntary administration).
  • Personal insolvency (bankruptcy).
  • Management impasse, partnership disputes, shareholder disputes.
  • Corporate governance.
  • Equity, trusts, securities.
  • Corporate reconstruction, turnaround strategies.
  • Contract, negligence, trade practices.
  • Disputes (property, leasing).

Recent matters and transactions

  • Managing high volume debt recovery for national and publicly listed clients, debt collection agencies and industry clients.
  • Providing credit management advice and solutions to a broad range of industry clients.
  • Securing recovery in a multimillion dollar debt recovery action through a combination of contractual, equitable and corporations law remedies.
  • Bringing and defending applications to appoint provisional liquidators and statutory trustees for sale.
  • Enforcing caveats, mortgages, charges.
  • Insolvency advice to creditors, debtors and insolvency practitioners.
  • Litigation against major financial institution for negligence and breach of contract.
  • Supreme Court litigation against a mortgagee for improper exercise of power of sale.
  • Large scale personal guarantee claims.
  • Loss of profits claim against web hosting company for damages due to loss of entire electronic database.
  • Acting for creditors, debtors and shareholders in appointing external administrators.
  • Acting for creditors, directors and insolvency practitioners in recovery proceedings during insolvency administrations, unfair preference claims and insolvent trading actions.

Contact Karl by email at khill@resultslegal.com.au or by telephone on (07) 3234 3200.