Rod Cunich has over 30 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and is an active member of the insolvency and turnaround management industries. Rod is currently a director of the Turnaround Management Association of Australia and the immediate past chair of the NSW Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee (Law Council of Australia).
A director of numerous organisations, Rod’s clients benefit from both his extensive legal expertise and his first-hand commercial experience. He has lectured nationally and internationally on a range of commercial law issues relating to business transactions, business structures, asset protection and business succession.
Expertise
- Asset protection
- Corporate & personal insolvency
- Reconstruction & pre-insolvency turnaround solutions
- Personal estate & business succession planning
Career history
- since 2008 Slater & Gordon (practice group leader)
- 2002-2008 Access Business Lawyers (managing director)
- 1991-2002 (sole practitioner)
- 1987-1991 Abbott Tout
- 1985-1987 Browne & Partners
Professional qualifications & admissions
- Accredited specialist in Commercial Litigation
- Qualified Mediator (LEADR)
- Accredited Adviser: National Stock Exchange (NSX)
- Advisor, Family Business Australia
- 1996 Admitted Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- 1979 Admitted High Court of Australia
- 1979 Admitted Supreme Court of New South Wales
- Bachelor of Arts, University of NSW
- Bachelor of Laws, University of NSW
Memberships & associations
- Accredited Adviser: National Stock Exchange (NSX)
- Advisor, Family Business Australia
- Chair, Wollongong Stock Exchange Steering Committee
- Chair, Membership Committee, Turnaround Management Association
- Immediate past chair, NSW Insolvency & Reconstruction Law Committee, Business Law section, Law Council of Australia
- Director, Turnaround Management Association
- Director, Convention Travel Pty Ltd
- Director, Unconventional Conventions Pty Ltd
- Australian Institute of Company Directors
- Financial Planning Association
- International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)
- Insolvency Practitioners Association
- International Bar Association, Business Law J Committee Insolvency
- Law Society of New South Wales