Dr David Goldman is an insolvency and restructuring partner of Norton Rose Australia, based in Sydney. He regularly advises banks, insolvency practitioners and others, including publicly listed companies, directors, creditors and debtors, on banking, insolvency and debt-related matters, extending to the conduct of major Corporations Act litigation, transactions involving distressed companies and restructuring. Recent assignments include advising:

• an airline on the administration of its foreign reorganisation in Australia (including testing the operation of the UN Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency under the Cross-Border Insolvency Act 2008 (Cth)); and

• banks on the management and sale of non-performing loans.

A regular commentator on insolvency law reforms, Dr Goldman is also the author of Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition published by Cambridge University Press (launched in 2008 by the Hon. Michael Kirby, then a Justice of the High Court of Australia) and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, responsible for convening its postgraduate corporate insolvency course. Dr Goldman also sits on ASIC’s NSW Regional Insolvency Liaison Committee.