27 Jul 2026
Nicholas Dunstone joins Jones Day in Sydney as partner in Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice
"Nicholas Dunstone has joined Jones Day in Sydney as a partner in its Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice, bringing 25+ years' restructuring and insolvency experience across the Asia‑Pacific and globally."
Mr. Dunstone is a leading pan‑APAC restructuring lawyer with more than 25 years of experience advising on complex cross‑border restructuring and insolvency matters across the Asia‑Pacific region and globally. He specialises in restructuring and insolvency work and joins Jones Day as a partner. His career spans leading international law firms and a prominent distressed‑debt investment fund, and his notable recent representations include advising bondholders owed $4.2 billion in one of Europe’s largest restructurings, representing an Asian oil and gas engineering company in a multi‑jurisdictional restructuring involving a multi‑billion dollar arbitration claim and a complex UK Restructuring Plan, and advising a bondholder steering committee in a contested UK restructuring plan leading to a sale.
Mr. Dunstone holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) from the University of Adelaide and graduate certificates in Applied Finance from FINSIA and Advanced Insolvency from USQ. He is admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales and as a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia and New South Wales. He is the founder and chair of the ILA and Light Cultural Foundation, which won the 2021 Creative Partnership National Award for Emerging Philanthropists, and has served on the boards of the Pembroke Foundation and TMA Australia (NSW). He has also held board positions in various companies while at ARCM.