Mark Chapple is the former National Managing Partner of Baker & McKenzie's Australian offices. Until late 2005, Mark was head of Baker & McKenzie's Australian and Asia Pacific dispute resolution and insolvency practices. Mark remains one of Australia's leading insolvency and disputes lawyers and has represented many major Australian and international corporations in complex commercial litigation for the past 25 years (including AMP, Andersen, EDS, Fujitsu, Singtel Optus and Zurich Insurance) and has also played a lead role in most of Australia's major insolvencies over the same period.

Practice Focus

Mark Chapple's practice focuses on insolvency and litigation. Mark and his team have provided advice to banks and other financial institutions, liquidators, receivers, debtors and creditors in relation to most of Australia's major insolvencies over the last 25 years and he is repeatedly acknowledged by numerous legal directories as one of Australia's foremost insolvency and litigation practitioners, including by Best Lawyers: Australia 2008 and 2009. Mark has also created and presented masters and doctorate courses in corporate insolvency at the University of Technology, Sydney and is a respected author and presenter on a wide range of insolvency, corporate reconstruction, dispute resolution and management topics.

Representative Legal Matters

• Providing advice to banks and other financial institutions, liquidators, receivers and creditors.
• Providing advice and conducting litigation in connection with the enforcement of securities, construction contracts, "high-yield bonds", breach of fiduciary duty and fraud claims, directors' duties, asset tracing, employee entitlements and other priorities, trade practices, trusts, futures and futures options contracts, and hotel management agreements (among other areas).
• Advocacy before the Federal and Supreme Courts of Australia.

Admission

Western Australia~Australia (1999)
Victoria~Australia (1988)
New South Wales~Australia (1981)

Education

University of Sydney  (LL.B.) (1981)
University of Sydney  (Bachelor of Economics) (1979)