“Jordan is a Senior Associate who specialises in complex commercial disputes and has wide-ranging experience acting for domestic and international clients in both the UK and Australia”

Jordan regularly represents clients in banking and finance, civil fraud and insolvency related disputes. He has acted for clients in high value proceedings in the Commercial Court, including with respect to urgent injunctive relief and freezing orders, with his cases often having an international element.

Jordan also has particular experience with insolvency, having acted for receivers, administrators and liquidators of private, public and listed companies. His experience also encompasses having acted for banks, investment funds and companies in the enforcement of their securities including with respect to commercial and residential property, mining and other commercial assets.

Prior to joining Cooke, Young & Keidan in September 2022, Jordan was a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution group of one of Australia’s preeminent top-tier law firms, where his commercial disputes and litigation practice focused on insolvency. He regularly represented clients in various superior Australian courts, including the Supreme Courts of Queensland and New South Wales (among others), and the Federal Court of Australia.

Jordan has experience acting for clients in the defence of class action proceedings, and acting for plaintiffs in respect of large-scale litigation funded claims. He also has experience acting for clients in relation to regulatory investigations and inquiries, and conducting debt recovery and winding up matters.

Background

Jordan studied law at Queensland University of Technology in Australia where he graduated with First Class Honours. Following his admission as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2017, Jordan practiced and gained experience at leading national and international Australian law firms.

Professional groups

Jordan is a member of the Queensland Law Society in Australia.


Cases of Note

  • Acting for Chinese and Chilean clients in relation to an alleged $1bn+ fraud claim.

  • IS Prime v ThinkMarkets: acting for ThinkMarkets, the global brokerage firm, in high-profile Commercial Court proceedings brought by IS Prime Limited, settled at the start of trial in mid-2023

  • Acting for individual in claim against major bank concerning the mis-selling of an interest rate hedging product.

  • Re Samgris Resources Pty Ltd (in liquidation) [2022] QSC 126: acting for Australian liquidator in successfully obtaining special leave to distribute a surplus in liquidation, including novel orders under the Australian corporations legislation providing that the liquidators were justified in not taking any steps in proceedings commenced outside of Australia.

  • Acting for major international gambling company in defence of complex liquidator claim in the Federal Court of Australia for damages and recovery of company funds, including issues of director fraud, breaches of director’s duties and anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing compliance.

  • Acting for the administrators and liquidators of the RCR Tomlinson Group in relation to its solar energy subsidiary (formerly Australia’s largest solar energy EPC contractor), including with respect to disputes arising from the ongoing management of 12 large-scale commercial solar farm projects.

  • Acting for major Chinese State-owned capital fund in relation to enforcement of securities and resulting disputes concerning Australian property development investment exposure.

  • Acting for asset manager and investment bank in successfully obtaining urgent orders for the reinstatement of a deregistered company in the Supreme Court of Queensland for the purpose of effecting the removal of a South Korean aircraft mortgage registration, necessary to facilitate the completion of a $40million aircraft sale.