Mitchell Downes
Partner
P: (07) 3007 3715 | E: mdownes@mahoneys.com.au
Key service areas
- Insolvency and reconstruction
- Corporations, shareholder and partnership litigation
- Trust, equity and fiduciary litigation
- Real property (land sales, leases, compulsory acquisition) litigation
- General commercial (contract, real property and commercial tort) litigation
- Appeals
Qualifications & memberships
- Accredited Specialist – Commercial Litigation (Qld)
- Advanced Certificate in Insolvency
- Master of Laws
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
- Admitted to practice in Queensland and the High Court of Australia
- Queensland Law Society – member (and committee member of the Litigation Rules Committee)
- Law Council of Australia Business Law Section – member (and committee member of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee)
- Australian Reconstruction, Insolvency and Turnaround Association – professional member
- Turnaround Management Association – member
Recent experience
- Hilas & Anor v GGPG Developments (No 133) Pty Ltd & Anor [2020] QSC 313
- James Cook University v Ridd (No 2) [2020] FCAFC 321
- James Cook University v Ridd [2020] FCAFC 132
- Blu Con Pty Ltd v Brisbane City Council [2020] QPEC 32
- Ridd v James Cook University (No.2) [2019] FCCA 2489
- Champions Quarry Pty Ltd v GSQ Holdings Pty Ltd, in the matter of Champions Quarry 2 Pty Ltd [2019] FCA 459
- Ridd v James Cook University [2019] FCCA 997
- Ridd v James Cook University & Ors [2018] FCCA 3080
- Nixon (Trustee) [2018] FCA 720
- TLL Investment Pty Ltd v Body Corporate for the Grange (No 2) [2018] QCAT 444
- TLL Investment Pty Ltd v The Body Corporate for the Grange [2018] QCAT 318
- Fordyce v Kordamentha Real Estate Pty Ltd & Ors [2017] QSC 289
- SDW2 Pty Ltd v JLF Corporation Pty Ltd & Ors [2017] QSC 1
- Lambert Property Group Pty Ltd v Body Corporate for Castlebar Cove CTS 37148 [2015] QSC 179
- Re Bulwinkel Enterprises Pty Ltd [2015] QSC 112
Mitch is a tenacious litigator with total command of the law. He strategically approaches litigation to achieve commercial results.
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