Crispin Vinnell
Partner
- Crispin Vinnell
- Partner
- Christchurch
- Insolvency & Corporate Recovery | Banking & Finance
Crispin advises a wide range of clients, including banks, finance companies, chartered accountants, insolvency practitioners, receivers, liquidators, administrators and the Official Assignee on all facets of insolvency and recovery matters.
This includes Court action at all levels, mortgagee sales, recovery of collateral under the Personal Property Securities Act and advice to receivers and liquidators. Crispin has a particular expertise in personal insolvency.
Awards
- He is ranked in the 2017 - 2020 Chambers and Partners Directories and noted 'clients seek him out for his wealth of knowledge and good understanding of the local and wider markets,' and assert: 'The ability to pick up the phone and talk directly with him on any matter is of great value.'
- He isalso recognised in the IFLR 1000 international Directory.
- Crispin is named as a 'Leading Individual' in the 2016 - 2020 Legal 500 Asia Pacific guides. Clients recommended Crispin for being 'calm, balanced and commercial’.
- Crispin was named as a recommended lawyer for insolvency and corporate recovery in the 2018 Doyles Guide.
Experience
- Acting for a bank and receivers in recovery of multi-million dollar debt owed by a corporate dairy farm.
- Acting on a High Court litigation involving a major bank and a PPSR dispute in the equipment finance industry
- Acting on a complex litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal relating to a finance company, a failed subdivision and mortgage priority and caveat issues.
- Acting for Kiwibank Limited on the mortgagee sale of a commercial premises, followed by the sale of contracting equipment under the Bank's General Security Agreement.
- Working with our transactional banking team on issues surrounding a work out or restructure.
Credentials
- BA/LLB , University of Canterbury
Admitted
- 1994
Professional Associations
- Insolvency Working Group (2015)
- RITANZ (Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association of New Zealand Incorporated)
- New Zealand Credit and Finance Institute
- Banking and Finance Law Association
- INSOL New Zealand