Presenters

Ian Davidson SC, Eight Selborne Chambers
Ian Davidson is a Senior Counsel who practises primarily in Equity, Commercial, Administrative, Wills & Probate and Alternative Dispute Resolution. After graduating from ANU with a B Ec and LLB (1st class Honours and University Medal), Ian was Associate to Sir Anthony Mason from 1980 to 1981. He was awarded the R.G Menzies Scholarship to Harvard Law School (LLM 1982). After working with law firms in Boston and Washington DC and being admitted to the New York Bar, Ian practised as a solicitor in Sydney before being called to the NSW Bar where he has practiced from Eight Selborne Chambers (www.eightselborne.com.au) since 1991. Ian has chaired the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Protective Law Committee since 2024 and from 2015-2018 was Chair of that Bar’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, a director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and a member of the NSW Supreme Court ADR Steering Committee. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Banking & Financial Services Law Association and serves on the Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

Stipe Vuleta, Managing Director, Chamberlains Law Firm
Stipe Vuleta is the Managing Director of Chamberlains Law Firm and the head of its Insolvency & Restructuring and Strategic Advisory practices. Stipe regularly advises directors, insolvency practitioners, and secured creditors on complex restructuring, insolvency and commercial dispute matters across Australia. Over the course of his career, he has worked on a wide range of administrations, restructurings, bankruptcies and creditor recovery strategies, including matters involving cross-border businesses and multinational groups. He is particularly well known for his work alongside insolvency practitioners on issues such as voidable transactions, public examinations and the practical use of the personal property securities register (PPSR), where a properly registered security interest can often make all the difference when a business runs into financial difficulty.