Phil Shackleton

About

Phil acts for both debtors and creditors, including companies and directors facing recovery demands, private insolvency practitioners, and the Official Assignee.

He advises public and private clients – spanning finance, construction, residential and commercial property, as well as the forestry, dairy, hospitality, and tourism sectors – on receivership, liquidation, security enforcement, shareholder disputes, priority disputes, debt recovery, and banking litigation.

Phil has appeared at every level of New Zealand’s court system. For 20 years, he has been at the forefront of some of New Zealand’s most important insolvency cases, including the precedent-setting Debut Homes v Cooper – the first time the Supreme Court had considered the issue of directors' duties.

Clients turn to Phil for his extensive litigation experience, commercial approach, and ability to devise and execute strategies that achieve their goals.