Amy Reid  

Amy has practised at New Chambers in Sydney since 2020 and focuses on commercial, corporations and insolvency matters. She was previously an Associate at Minter Ellison in Sydney. She has advised and acted for major financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, corporations and government departments regarding domestic insolvency and complex debt recovery, regulatory investigations, competition disputes, corporations law matters and general commercial litigation. 

Amy has revised annotations to Parts 2D.2 to 2D.6 of Chapter 2D (Officers and employees) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), adding annotations for ss 200H (Benefits required by law), 203AA (Resignation of directors—when resignation takes effect) and 205B (Notice of name and address of directors and secretaries to ASIC). These sections were not previously annotated. 

Later this year, our aim is for Amy to revise annotations to Chapters 2A, 2B and 2C. 

Eugene Chan  

Before being called to the Bar, Eugene was a solicitor in the litigation department of the Australian Taxation Office where he worked in a broad range of complex tax, insolvency, corporations and administrative law matters in Federal and State Courts at first instance and on appeal. He has also been Associate to the Hon Stephen Rares of the Federal Court of Australia. 

Eugene has made extensive revisions to the existing annotations for Parts 5.8 and 5.9 of Chapter 5 (External administration), adding annotations for s 600G (Electronic communication of documents). This is a relatively new provision, having only been substituted at the end of 2020. It enables documents regarding company administration and insolvency to be communicated and signed electronically. Eugene’s annotations distil key insights from the first judgments on s 600G. 

We look forward to Eugene revising further parts of Chapter 5 during 2023. 

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