Bio

Scott Abel specialises in insolvency and debt restructuring, corporate and secured finance, and specialist personal property security and credit recovery advice. He advises and has acted for domestic and foreign banks, financial institutions, insolvency professionals and other organisations on receiverships, liquidations, administrations and workouts. He is particularly recognised by the market for his leading expertise in Personal Property Securities (PPS) law, often advising banks, insolvency practitioners and other firms and barristers on complex PPS matters. Scott also leads our financial regulatory practice in Auckland and frequently provides advice to domestic and offshore financial institutions, regulators, financial service providers and FinTech enterprises on financial product and conduct legislation (consumer and wholesale), licensing and prudential supervision requirements, AML/CFT compliance and creditor enforcement regulation. He regularly writes and presents papers on a range of insolvency, financial regulatory and credit enforcement topics, and is a contributing editor to Heath & Whale on Insolvency, New Zealand's leading insolvency law text. In 2015, he became the first New Zealander to pass the INSOL Global Insolvency Practice Course and be recognised as a Fellow of INSOL International.