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Daniel Wignall
principal lawyer, litigation and dispute resolution
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about Daniel
Daniel is solutions focused. With over 20 years’ experience working in commercial litigation and disputes, he has a knack for honing in on what is required, then providing his clients with tailored, strategic solutions.
Whether he is working against the clock on a failing business venture or on an oppressive conduct claim, by combining his extensive experience and technical skills with a commercial approach, he has earned a reputation for achieving results.
His litigation experience extends across a broad range of industries and areas of law including mining, agribusiness, finance, property development, defamation, shareholder disputes, professional negligence and insolvency.
Daniel also utilises his science and technology background to advise clients on matters relating to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency, with a specific focus on insolvency related crypto tracing and recoveries.
Areas of Expertise
- Building and construction disputes
- Corporations act
- Cryptocurrency tracing claims
- Complex commercial litigation
- Corporate restructures and insolvency
- Corporate insolvency
- Planning and environmental court appeals
- Debt recovery
- Directors’ penalty notices
- Insolvency bankruptcy and reconstruction
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- Professional negligence
- Shareholder disputes, including oppressive conduct claims
industries
- Accountants
- Agribusiness
- Insolvency
- Mining
- Property
additional qualifications
Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Applied Science
Admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia (since 2004)
leadership positions
Member, Blockchain Australia
recent experience
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dispute of post-completion balance sheet adjustment
Daniel acted for a Japanese publicly listed company in a dispute arising from a share sale transaction concerning one of its subsidiaries. The dispute centred around a post-completion balance sheet adjustment. The dispute ultimately resulted in a claim, and a cross-claim, being progressed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Equity division) and dealt with complex issues as to contractual interpretation, uncertainty, estoppel, and rectification arising from the parties pre-contractual conduct.
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cross-claim for breaches of share sale agreement
MK acted for the founders of a group of companies which conducted a frozen meals business, who had sold their shares to an unlisted public company for a minimum purchase price plus an earnout. The clients were sued by the purchaser for breaches of warranties in the share sale agreement and for misleading or deceptive conduct. The clients cross-claimed for breaches of the share sale agreement, misleading or deceptive conduct, oppressive conduct and unlawful financial assistance. The matter involved complex and novel issues of law in relation to the oppression and financial assistance provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
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professional negligence
Daniel acted for plaintiffs claiming damages against a national accounting firm alleged negligence tax advice, with the firm joining its insurer as a third party in the proceeding. The matter involved complex tax issues as the plaintiffs’ loss and damage was referrable to the resolution of a preceding tax dispute with the ATO and a counterfactual outcome based on expert evidence.
