Emma Beechey SC

Admitted to the Bar 2013

Appointed Senior Counsel 2026

Experience

Ms Beechey SC is a commercial barrister specialising in domestic and cross-border insolvency, banking and financial services regulation, and digital assets. She regularly acts for local and foreign insolvency practitioners, major financial institutions, corporations, investors and regulators in complex commercial and insolvency disputes.

She appears in all Australian courts, principally the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of New South Wales, at trial and on appeal, and has a substantial appellate practice including in the High Court.

She has appeared in the High Court in ASIC v Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd (for ASIC), Poulton v Conrad (for the Commissioner of Taxation as intervener) and Garuda Indonesia v Greylag Goose Leasing. In the NSW Court of Appeal, she appeared in Caron v Jahani (No 2) (2020) 102 NSWLR 537, one of the leading Australian decisions on tracing into a deficient trust fund.

Her cross-border insolvency briefs have included acting for Thai Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Exactech Inc, Astora Women’s Health, and the liquidators of GetSwift and Caledonian Bank.

She also acts for regulators including ASIC, APRA and the ATO, in cryptocurrency, superannuation and other matters. She has particular expertise in digital assets and distributed ledger technology.

Ms Beechey SC is recognised annually in each of the Australian ranking guides. She is a Fellow of INSOL International and the lecturer for the Australian module of the INSOL Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency Law.