Rate My Professor Lindsay Powers

Powers has litigated at all levels of Australian courts, including landmark High Court victories in Garcia v National Australia Bank (1998) 194 CLR 395, a cornerstone of banking law, and Kanivah Holdings Pty Limited v Holdsworth Properties Pty Limited [2001] NSWSC 405 on expert determination. He advised on major collapses such as HIH, Ansett Airlines, NewCap Re, One.Tel, Opes Prime, the NSW Grains Board—Australia's largest agricultural insolvency—and Babcock and Brown for Singapore's Government Investment Corporation. Since 1991, he has edited the insolvency commentary in the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, publishing numerous articles on insolvency topics. A former director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, he was also a teaching fellow at the University of New South Wales and lectured at the University of Technology Sydney. His stature is evidenced by consistent honors: Best Lawyers in Insolvency and Reorganisation (2013–2020), Litigation (2009–2020), and Alternative Dispute Resolution (2013–2020); Chambers Asia Pacific Leading Individual in Insolvency and Reconstruction (2008–2015); and Who's Who Legal Leading Individual (2009, 2012, 2015).