Our Team
Advisors who have built the businesses we serve.
Partner-led engagements across every practice area — with direct access to senior expertise from the first conversation.
Asia-Pacific Capability
Partner-led advisory from Sydney and Singapore — across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Leadership
Meet the partners.
Our leadership combines decades of experience across tax, legal, restructuring and corporate advisory — operating across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Founder & Managing Partner
James Leslie-Watt
Leads the firm’s strategic direction and advises boards and directors on corporate restructuring, tax strategy and intellectual property matters. James has advised clients through complex multi-jurisdictional engagements across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Partner — Accounting & Tax
Peter Sprekos
Leads the accounting and tax practice, specialising in ATO debt compliance, CFO advisory and R&D tax incentive claims for high-growth businesses across technology, professional services and industrial sectors.
Senior Associate — Restructuring & Turnaround
Paniz Vatankhah
Specialises in voluntary administration, safe harbour advisory and small business restructures. Works directly with directors navigating financial distress.
Combined Expertise
A century of partner-level experience.
Our partners and senior advisors bring over 100 years of combined experience across restructuring and turnaround, accounting, tax and legal practice — delivering integrated counsel on the most consequential matters facing Australian directors and boards.
100+
Years combined
Partner-level experience across the firm
4
Core disciplines
Restructuring, accounting, tax and legal
9
Practice areas
Integrated under one firm
4
Global offices
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Singapore
Professional Expertise
Four disciplines, integrated at partner level.
Each of our core practices is led by partners with deep technical expertise and direct experience in the matters that most affect our clients. The value we deliver comes from the combination — not just the individual disciplines.
Restructuring & Turnaround
Partner-led advisory for directors and boards navigating financial distress. We act as the director’s independent guardian — operating in the space where liquidators cannot.
- Safe harbour advisory under s 588GA
- Pre-appointment strategy and options
- Consensual debt restructuring
- DOCA structuring and negotiation
- Director personal exposure management
Accounting & Finance
Hands-on CFO advisory, strategic financial planning and management reporting — delivered by partners with operational finance experience, not reviewed from above.
- CFO advisory and board reporting
- Management accounting and reporting
- Cash flow and working capital
- Capital raise preparation
- Finance team capability uplift
Tax Advisory
Technical tax advice delivered commercially — corporate tax, international tax, GST, private client structuring and contested positions for large SMEs and ASX-listed companies.
- Corporate and international tax
- ATO debt compliance and DPN response
- R&D Tax Incentive claims
- Private wealth and trust structuring
- Private rulings and disputes
Legal (Corson Fiske ILP)
Full-service commercial legal capability delivered through our incorporated legal practice subsidiary, integrated with the firm’s tax, restructuring and advisory teams.
- Corporate governance and director duties
- Commercial disputes and litigation
- Insolvency and debt recovery
- Property, development and construction
- Technology, IP and financial services law