Paul Tracey
Areas of practice
Trusts (including offshore)
Succession and estates
Corporations Law (in particular, directros’ duties and shareholders’ rights)
Commercial equity and fiduciary obligations
Insolvency and bankruptcy
Competition Law
Commercial arbitration
Mining, energy and natural resources
Commercial contracts (including pre-contractual liability)
Commercial fraud and asset recovery
Superannuation
Banking and financial services
Professional negligence
Intellectual property
Taxation
Curriculum vitae
Contact
Phone: 07 3333 9904
Mobile: 0434 742 776
Reception: 07 3333 9921
Email: paul.tracey@qldbar.asn.au
Further information
Paul has a broad commercial and chancery practice.
He has particular experience in the following kinds of matters:
Trust disputes and advice
Full range of offshore/ cross-border trusts advice and litigation;
Includes disputes as to terms of trust, identity of beneficiaries and extent of their entitlements, validity of exercise or purported exercise by trustees or protectors of powers (including frauds on the power), disclosure of information and documents to beneficiaries, removal and/or change of trustees, fees disputes; trustees’ breaches of duties;
Trusts’ advice (particularly as to exercise of powers) and drafting/revising trusts’ terms.
Civil/ commercial fraud and asset recovery
Breach of fiduciary duty (senior employees, joint venturers);
Tracing and proprietary claims for misdirected/ defalcated funds;
Freezing and ancillary orders and other interlocutory relief such as pre-action disclosure and search and seizure orders.
Corporate insolvency
Wrongful/ insolvent trading;
Unfair preferences and undervalue or fraudulent transactions.
Company
Directors’ duties and powers;
Minority shareholders’ rights and internal disputes (including derivative claims).
Other commercial litigation and arbitration
Commercial contract disputes;
Banking and financial services;
Restrictive Trade Practices/ Competition Law.
Before being called to the Bar in Queensland, Paul worked in London and in Jersey (the Channel Islands) as a partner specialising in commercial and chancery disputes.
He has also been called as a Barrister of the Middle Temple and as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey (non-practicing).
He has also worked in commercial litigation in Sydney.
Paul is also an adjunct lecturer in the T C Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland lecturing in Succession and Trusts.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is available to sit as an arbitrator.
He is also a member of:
· The Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners;
· The Chancery Bar Association (London);
· The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; and
· The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation