Anthony Cocolas
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
P: (07) 3007 3768 | E: acocolas@mahoneys.com.au
Key service areas
- Contract disputes
- Business disputes
- Body corporate and strata
- Contraction disputes
- Bankruptcy
- Debt recovery
- Statutory demands
- Winding Up orders
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- Professional negligence
- Defamation
Qualifications & memberships
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Laws
- Admitted to practice in Queensland and Victoria
- Member, Queensland Law Society
- Full member, Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association
- Member, Hellenic Australian Lawyers
Recent experience
The reported decision of Toohey v Golder & Ors [2021] QSC 277 successfully defending an action in excess of $1,000,000, involving contractual law questions regarding formation of contract, repudiation, non-performance, breach, damages, negligent misrepresentation.
The reported decision of Bank of Queensland v Y&L Promising Pty Ltd [2022] QDC 52 involving the transfer of a lease, breach of covenant by a previous lessor and whether section 62 of the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld) transferred liability in respect to breaches of a lease completed prior to the transfer to the transferee.
Assisting bodies corporate to recover unpaid levies and contributions.
The reported decision of Kirk as trustee of the Property of Smith (A Bankrupt) v Smith [2024] FCA 240 where the trustee sought declarations that a series of transactions entered into by the bankrupt to his wife were void pursuant to sections 120, 121 and 128B of the Bankruptcy Act 1966; whether a constructive trust arose; whether a loan agreement was a ‘sham’, whether transfer of superannuation funds was property divisible among creditors.
Advising liquidators, receivers, administrators, and trustees in relation to their appointment, during their tenure, and in post-insolvency actions including insolvent trading claims, preference actions, uncommercial transactions, unreasonable director related transactions, recovery claims and public examinations.