John Howard

John is a litigator with close to 20 years' experience in dispute resolution.

John practises in all aspects of business and company law disputes, and his clients include major international petroleum and gas companies, hi-tech companies, financial services companies and industrial companies. He has particular expertise in cross border disputes, contract law, corporations law, insolvency and competition and consumer law. He is also experienced in all forms of alternative dispute resolution including mediations, arbitrations, expert determinations and structured negotiations.

John mainly practices in the Federal and Supreme Courts across Australia. He and his team also appear regularly in all courts and tribunals of New South Wales.

John is a fellow of the Commercial Law Association of Australia and a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the International Bar Association, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association, Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce of which he is also Honorary General Counsel.

Some of John’s recent matters include:

• acting for a leading international pension fund in a multi-million dollar claim against a major investment bank for misrepresentation arising out of the representations contained in an information memorandum used by the bank to sell a bond issue by its client, which client subsequently went into liquidation, rendering the bonds worthless.
• representing the Australian and New Zealand entities of the Nortel Networks Group in its billion dollar global debt restructure and associated sale process arising from Nortel’s chapter 11 bankruptcy.