Alison McManus
Alison McManus
Principal
+61 (0)2 8313 6590
alison.mcmanus@assuredlegal.com.au
Experience
General experience overview
With over 15 year’s of experience, Alison brings to Assured a wealth of knowledge in areas of law including commercial litigation, large-scale remediation and rectification, corporate restructuring and insolvency, regulatory and advisory. Alison has advised a wide range of financial institutions, restructuring and insolvency practitioners, directors and creditors on financial services, securities and insolvency law.
Professional qualifications and admissions
2008 – Advanced Insolvency Law and Practice I & II Queensland University of Technology
2004 – Admission as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and High Court of Australia
2003 – Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (GDLP) University of Technology, Sydney
2002 – Bachelor of Laws (LLB) University of Technology, Sydney
2000 – Bachelor of Business University of Technology, Sydney
Career history
2018 – 2021: Westpac Banking Corporation
2015: Acting General Counsel, Aussie Home Loans
2008 – 2021: Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Memberships and associations
Law Society of New South Wales
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Women on Boards
Recognition and awards
NRFA – Recipient of Global Inclusion and Diversity award, quarterly and individual team awards.
Westpac – Recipient of the Service Excellence and Rise Awards.
Pro bono and corporate social responsibility work
Judicial and merit reviews on behalf of clients referred via Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) and JusticeConnect.
Review and update of published materials on behalf of Anti-Slavery Australia and Aboriginal Legal Service.
Representation of clients referred by the Australian Centre for Disability Law
Champion and Mentor, Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) and ANZ Indigenous Students Program
Co-ordinator of the ‘Flex Network’, Diversity Committee Member and Mental Health First Aid Officer at NRFA