Carl Hagon leads our Insolvency, Commercial Disputes and Construction team. Carl brings over 15 years’ experience across multiple Australian jurisdictions in the commercial litigation, construction, distressed debt, restructuring and insolvency space to Rostron Carlyle Lawyers.
Carl has acted for Australia’s leading insolvency practitioners, corporations and directors across a wide spectrum of insolvency and reconstruction matters.
Notable matters include advising:
- A company in obtaining a judgment in default against former directors in excess of $5.5 million: Pieman Resources Pty Ltd v Monks [2025] FCA 88;
- A liquidator, in a public examination, successfully opposing examinees’ attempt to rely on penalty privilege in refusing to produce documents: Deane, in the matter of MSB Capital Holdings Pty Ltd (in liq) [2023] FCA 919;
- A contracting company in the successful negotiation with the Commonwealth Department of Defence on a significant contractual dispute worth in excess of $10 million;
- Liquidators in one of only two published decisions regarding default judgment for voidable transactions: Project Noah Holdings Pty Ltd (in liq) v Jacka [2022] FCA 778;
- Property developers in the successful defence of a claim in excess of $20 million brought by a purported partner in a significant development in south-west Sydney: Comlin Holdings Pty Ltd v Metlej Developments Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 761; and
- A construction company in the successful reduction (and eventual disposition) of a freezing order: Vartzokas Architects Pty Ltd v Nazero Group SA Pty Ltd and Anor (No.3) [2017] FCCA 2280;
- Receivers and managers in the successful defence of an application to have them removed brought by the director of the company.
- A national supermarket franchisor in a successful appeal before the full Federal Court: SPAR Licensing Pty Ltd v MIS QLD Pty Ltd [2014] FCAFC 50