Dan Mackay

Dan’s specialty is representing individuals and companies facing civil penalties or potential criminal prosecution by regulators.  

He has significant experienced in all aspects of regulatory investigations and actions, complex financial services disputes and high impact insolvencies.  

Dan has worked on some of Australia’s most complex cases of the last 20 years.  His approach is marked by a forensic, incisive analysis and the ability to see ten steps ahead.  This is coupled with a unique ability to understand the client’s real problem and find a way through to an outcome.

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Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Literature and Philosophy) / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Monash University

Graduate diploma of applied finance and investment (Kaplan) (Grad Dip App Fin)

Admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court

Senior Associate of the Financial Services Instituted of Australasia (FINSIA)

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Key matters

• iProsperity – representing companies in the iProsperity Group and directors in various disputes and in the external administration of certain iProsperity companies

• Credit Regulation - Acting for an Australian Credit Licensee defending ASIC civil penalty proceedings

• Family Law Property Disputes - Representing the wife in complex family law property dispute involving Australian and International assets worth potentially several hundred millions of dollars

• Competition - Acting for a company director in ACCC cartel matter

• Willmott Forests – acting for investors, borrowers and a responsible entity in long running litigation and restructuring in response to the Willmott Forests Goup, culminating in the successful restructure and continuation of timber forestry scheme

• Professional regulation – representing a number of accountants being investigated by the IPA and succeeding in having the investigation abandoned

• Financial Services – advising a party to a large superannuation merger on immediate and potential risks arising from ASIC civil penalty action against a member of the other transaction party’s group

• Advising a payments system fintech start-up on financial services, licensing, AML CTF and related issues

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