Simon Watson
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
P: (07) 3007 3736 | E: swatson@mahoneys.com.au
Key service areas
- Shareholder and director disputes
- Corporate and Insolvency litigation
- Estates litigation
- Body corporate and property litigation
Qualifications & memberships
- Bachelor of Laws
- Master of Laws
- Admitted to practice in South Africa
- Admitted to practice in New South Wales and the High Court of Australia
- Holds a Queensland Practicing Certificate
- Member, Queensland Law Society
Recent experience
- Successfully represented a commercial tenant in a Supreme Court claim for several hundred thousand dollars in overpaid outgoings.
- Represented the executor of a large estate in defending and settling a family provision claim.
- Application to the Supreme Court for a freezing order to prevent the sale of commercial property.
- Acted for a liquidator in starting and settling an insolvent trading claim.
- Acted for the trustee of a bankrupt estate in recovering the half share of a property.
- Appointed and advised a receiver and manager on the sale of a medical practice.
- Advising a company in regards to claims brought against it by a minority shareholder and defending related proceedings.
- Acted for a caretaker in a litigated claim against a body corporate for wrongful termination of a service agreement.