Binti Prasad

Binti is a senior commercial litigation and insolvency lawyer with extensive experience advising on complex, high-stakes disputes and restructuring matters. She acts for insolvency practitioners, company directors, insurers and corporates across a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, telecommunications, transport and logistics, agriculture, healthcare and financial services.

Her practice focuses on matters where commercial pressure, legal risk and reputational exposure intersect. Binti is known for her strategic judgement, technical depth and ability to identify practical, cost-effective pathways through disputes that would otherwise escalate into prolonged and expensive litigation.

Binti is a highly experienced advocate and regularly appears as counsel in the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Federal Court of Australia and the County Court of Victoria. She is trusted with matters requiring decisiveness, clarity of advice and firm control of litigation risk.

Areas of Focus

• Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
• Insolvency and restructuring
• Director and officer liability
• Unfair preference and voidable transaction claims
• Product liability and complex commercial disputes
• Bankruptcy and corporate recovery

Experience & Authority

Litigation & Dispute Resolution Expertise
Binti acts in a wide range of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, misleading and deceptive conduct, restitutionary claims and product liability matters. She is frequently engaged in disputes involving complex factual matrices, multiple parties and significant financial exposure.

She has successfully represented clients in appellate proceedings and in technically complex litigation where strategic planning and disciplined execution are critical to outcome. Her approach is evidence-driven and commercially focused, with a clear understanding of when to apply pressure and when to resolve matters pragmatically.

Insolvency & Restructuring
Binti has extensive experience advising insolvency practitioners on all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency, including appointments, asset realisation, investigations and litigation. She regularly acts in matters involving unfair preference claims, insolvent trading, related party transactions and applications for court directions.

Her work includes advising on complex restructuring scenarios, defending challenges to Deeds of Company Arrangement, and assisting practitioners to manage litigation funding arrangements in high-value recovery actions.

Significant Litigation & Insolvency Matters

• Successfully represented a German manufacturing company in the Victorian Court of Appeal in a complex product liability dispute against BHP
• Acted for the liquidators of Watersun Homes, managing all aspects of the appointment, including the prosecution of more than 20 unfair preference claims and an insolvent trading claim against directors with the assistance of a litigation funder
• Defended an application to set aside a Deed of Company Arrangement on behalf of deed administrators
• Represented a global transport and logistics company in restitution proceedings brought by a subsidiary of Australia Post
• Acted for a major telecommunications provider in proceedings involving breach of contract and misleading and deceptive conduct
• Advised investors in Supreme Court proceedings arising from a failed property development, including claims for misleading conduct and breach of trust

Director, Practitioner & Creditor Advisory
Binti regularly advises company directors and officers on insolvency risk, restructuring options and potential exposure, including insolvent trading and breach of duty claims. She also advises creditors and trustees on enforcement strategies, asset recovery and bankruptcy-related disputes.

Her experience includes advising trustees in bankruptcy on the realisation of complex property interests, including assets encumbered by compensation orders and co-ownership arrangements.

Regulatory, Government & Insurer Matters
Binti has acted in proceedings involving regulators and statutory bodies, including appearances for the Australian Taxation Office in winding up and bankruptcy proceedings, defending unfair preference claims brought against the ATO, and advising on enforcement actions.

She also acts for insurers in complex indemnity and defect-related claims, including matters involving alleged defective building works and large-scale property developments.

Urgent & High-Risk Proceedings
Binti is regularly engaged in urgent and high-risk litigation, including applications for freezing orders, recovery actions against directors and shadow directors, and proceedings involving alleged asset dissipation. She is experienced in managing matters where timing, precision and decisiveness are critical.

Professional Leadership & Industry Engagement
Binti is Co-Chair of the Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria (WIRV) Advocacy Sub-Committee and a member of the WIRV Committee of Management. Through this role, she actively contributes to the development, advocacy and visibility of women within the restructuring and insolvency profession.

She is valued by clients and peers for her integrity, strategic insight and ability to cut through complexity to deliver outcomes in difficult and commercially sensitive matters.