Presenters

David McCrostie, Partner, Turks
David joined Turks as an undergraduate in 1991. Throughout his time at Turks, David has acted for secured and unsecured creditors exercising their rights in situations of distressed exposures and upon the insolvency of borrowers and debtors. David is the current head of Turks’ Banking Practice Group and continues to act for the firm's corporate and government lender clients on a broad range of matters that arise on both performing and non-performing facilities throughout the entire life-cycle of a loan. Given his long experience and expertise in insolvency, David continues to conduct and supervise litigation and projects in the firm's Commercial Practice Group particularly on instructions from liquidators, voluntary administrators and both private bankruptcy trustees and the Official Receiver. In 2006, David was appointed a member of the Law Council of Australia's specialist Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee. The Law Council's Committee consists of legal practitioners with specialised legal knowledge and experience in insolvency that provides guidance to the Law Council in its dealings with State and Federal Governments when relevant issues emerge. Articles David has written appear in the Insolvency Law Bulletin and he has been an instructor on the post-graduate Advanced Insolvency Program run jointly (then) by the University of Southern Queensland and the Insolvency Practitioners' Association of Australia (now ARITA). He is frequently involved in the organisation, preparation and delivery of both internal and external seminars.


Ashley Leslie, Director – Restructuring & Recovery, Vincents
Ashley has a diverse range of experience which includes corporate accounting, information technology, corporate reconstruction and insolvency and investment scheme wind-ups. She has a holistic approach to solving complex problems in a diverse range of businesses and is well respected for her attention to detail. She has experience in: Liquidations, Administrations, Receiverships, Personal Bankruptcies, Statutory Trusteeships, and Part X Debt Agreements. Ashley is an insolvency practitioner with over 19 years of insolvency experience, specialising in both corporate and personal insolvencies. After working in other specialist insolvency and mid-tier accounting firms, Ashley commenced with Vincents in January 2012 and was made Director in 2017.