Current practice

Konrad de Kerloy is a senior member of the national Litigation team, specialising in commercial litigation and corporate insolvency (both contentious and non-contentious) for the past 18 years. Konrad's practice ranges from banking and contractual disputes, contentious insolvency and corporate restructuring, professional negligence and reviews and disputes involving governmental departments and agencies.

Industry experience

Konrad's regular clients include banks, chartered accountants and government departments. He has also worked for corporate clients on a transactional basis. For these clients he has conducted a number of major actions involving banking instruments, professional negligence (valuers, bankers, engineers) and commercial fraud. A number of major matters have involved international law and cross-border aspects.

Konrad has worked on assignments in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Chile and Indonesia. In the course of those assignments he worked with law firms based in New York, Washington, Frankfurt, Paris and Santiago.

In 1998 and 1999 he worked in London on secondment with the London based international law firm of Lovell White Durrant, one of the world's largest law firms and recognised as one of the leading insolvency and litigation firms in London. Konrad commenced his secondment with Lovell White Durrant in January 1998 and worked as a member their International Litigation and Cross Border Insolvency Group. The Group's work involved asset tracing and fraud related issues. Konrad dealt with a variety of banking and cross border insolvency related matters.

Major projects and clients
Some of Konrad's major matters (of public record) have included:

• advising the Administrator/Liquidator on all aspects of the administration and liquidation of Permanent Building Society and pursuing claims against its directors
• advising the Administrator on the administration and successful reconstruction of Minproc in Australia, Chile and Uruguay
• advising the Commission on Government in respect to its public inquiry into the prevention of corrupt, illegal or improper conduct by public officials
• conducting for the State Bank of Victoria an action against Kevin Parry and his private companies in respect of a multi-million dollar guarantee including the obtaining of Mareva injunctions
• advising the senior unsecured creditors of the Centaur Group of Companies in respect to their rights and the options for a reconstruction of the companies.
  
  

Professional background

Konrad graduated in 1983 and holds bachelors degrees in Jurisprudence and Law from the University of Western Australia.

He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1983 and the High Court of Australia in 1984. He has also been admitted as a solicitor and as a solicitor-advocate in England and Wales.

Konrad joined Freehills in 1983 as an articled clerk and became a partner in 1989.

Konrad has had the following articles relating to insolvency law published:

"Replacing a resigning office holder in insolvency administrations" Tolley's Insolvency Law & Practice Vol.15 No. 2 1999
"Assessing the quantum of a liquidator's or administrator's liability for negligence" Tolley's Insolvency Law & Practice Vol.15 No. 4 1999
"The personal liability of liquidators and administrative receivers for the costs of an unsuccessful action" The Receivers, Administrators and Liquidators Quarterly Vol.4, Issue 1, 2000.