Michael Arthur is a partner in our litigation & dispute resolution team focusing on commercial dispute resolution, with a particular interest in insolvency and insurance.

Michael has a broad practice, resolving disputes in the courts, before other tribunals and in formal and informal negotiations.

Michael has been recognised by Chambers Global as a leading lawyer in restructuring & insolvency, and by PLC Which Lawyer?.

Recent experience

Michael has acted for:

• BDO Spicers, the voluntary administrators of Icon Digital, which owed creditors almost NZ$20 million 
  
• the voluntary administrators (Staples Rodway) of ICP Biotechnology on the first voluntary administration of an NZX-listed company 
  
• consumer finance company Beneficial Finance, to develop a legal strategy and documentation for a successful NZ$31 million creditor moratorium to avoid receivership. This was the first finance company moratorium successfully implemented and has been adopted as the model by a number of other finance companies 
  
• the proponents of the Wall Group creditors’ compromise under Part 14 of the Companies Act 1993, negotiations with creditors and associated litigation, and 
  
• a major trading bank in PPSA priority dispute litigation.