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Raini Zambelli

Bar Roll: 2015 Admitted: 2003
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61 3 9225 7077 61 407 100 001
Room 1019 Lonsdale Chambers

Raini Zambelli is a corporate and commercial law barrister.  She has acted for large financial institutions, governments, and government agencies, corporate entities of all size, directors, joint ventures and partnerships.  Raini specialises in complex insolvency, financial and cross-border disputes together with securities class actions and has over 21 years’ litigation experience in Australia and across multiple European jurisdictions, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and the Americas.  Before coming to the Bar, Raini practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and in London.  She also has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having spent two years seconded as in-house counsel to Royal Sun Alliance and to the Royal Bank of Scotland in London.

She holds a Masters of Law majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration, is recognised as an Advanced Mediator by the Victorian Bar and was dux of her year in ARITA’s Insolvency Education Program.  She was called to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, is qualified as a mediator in Australia (NMAS) and in the United Kingdom (ADR Group), and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCiArb).

Raini has conducted significant litigation involving large-scale corporate collapses in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Federal Court of Australia and in the High Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.  She also specialises in corporations and securities law class actions, including market misconduct provisions of the Corporations Act, ASIC Act, and financial services laws generally.

Raini is recognised for her technical excellence and client relationship skills by the following publications:

– Chambers & Partners, as a leader in the field of Restructuring & Insolvency (2017-2023);

– Doyles Guide, as pre-eminent Insolvency & Restructuring Junior Counsel in 2023 and 2022 (and before that as leading Junior Counsel 2018-2021);

– Doyles Guide, as pre-eminent Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel in 2023 and 2022 (and before that as leading Junior Counsel 2018-2021);

– Doyles Guide, as a leading mediator in 2023; and

– The Best Lawyers in Australia for her work in International Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Insolvency and Reorganisation Law (2021-2024 editions).

Raini has served as an elected member of the Bar Council in 2019-2020, 2021-2022, and is currently serving a third term in 2022-2023.

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Areas of Practice

ArbitrationArbitration Mediation & AdrArbitratorsBanking & FinanceBanking, Finance & InsolvencyCommercialCompetitionConflict of LawsCorporate & CommercialCorporationsElectoral LawInsolvencyInsuranceInternational ArbitrationMediationMediatorsPrivate International LawProfessional NegligenceTrade Practices/Consumer Protection

Cases

QUALIFICATIONS

BA; LLB; LLM; Mediator (UK & Australia)

Raini holds a Masters of Law from Monash University majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration, is a qualified and practising mediator and was dux of her year in ARITA’s Insolvency Education Program. She is admitted to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

Victorian Bar Committees

Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee 2015-2017
Arts & Collections Committee 2017-2020
Bar Council 2019-2020, 2021-2022 and 2022-present
Counsel Committee 2022 - present
Executive Committee of the Commercial Bar Association 2019 - present
Insolvency Section Monitor of the Commercial Bar Association 2015-2019
International Arbitration Committee (and VCAS) 2017 - present
Readers' Course Committee 2021 - present
Women Barristers' Association 2015 - present


Other Committees and Working Groups

ACICA - the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration - Victorian State Committee
International Committee of the Australian Bar Association
Federal Court Corporations and Commercial Users' Group
Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation / Dispute Settlement) 72nd Session in Vienna


Professional Memberships

ARITA - the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (RITP)
CiArb - the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship (FCiArb)
The Law Council of Australia
INSOL International - the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals
UNCCA - the UNCITRAL Coordination Committee for Australia
WIRV - Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria

Raini Zambelli

Bar Roll: 2015 Admitted: 2003
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Profile

61 3 9225 7077 61 407 100 001
Room 1019 Lonsdale Chambers

Raini Zambelli is a corporate and commercial law barrister.  She has acted for large financial institutions, governments, and government agencies, corporate entities of all size, directors, joint ventures and partnerships.  Raini specialises in complex insolvency, financial and cross-border disputes together with securities class actions and has over 21 years’ litigation experience in Australia and across multiple European jurisdictions, the Middle East, Asia, Russia and the Americas.  Before coming to the Bar, Raini practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and in London.  She also has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having spent two years seconded as in-house counsel to Royal Sun Alliance and to the Royal Bank of Scotland in London.

She holds a Masters of Law majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration, is recognised as an Advanced Mediator by the Victorian Bar and was dux of her year in ARITA’s Insolvency Education Program.  She was called to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, is qualified as a mediator in Australia (NMAS) and in the United Kingdom (ADR Group), and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCiArb).

Raini has conducted significant litigation involving large-scale corporate collapses in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Federal Court of Australia and in the High Court and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.  She also specialises in corporations and securities law class actions, including market misconduct provisions of the Corporations Act, ASIC Act, and financial services laws generally.

Raini is recognised for her technical excellence and client relationship skills by the following publications:

– Chambers & Partners, as a leader in the field of Restructuring & Insolvency (2017-2023);

– Doyles Guide, as pre-eminent Insolvency & Restructuring Junior Counsel in 2023 and 2022 (and before that as leading Junior Counsel 2018-2021);

– Doyles Guide, as pre-eminent Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel in 2023 and 2022 (and before that as leading Junior Counsel 2018-2021);

– Doyles Guide, as a leading mediator in 2023; and

– The Best Lawyers in Australia for her work in International Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Insolvency and Reorganisation Law (2021-2024 editions).

Raini has served as an elected member of the Bar Council in 2019-2020, 2021-2022, and is currently serving a third term in 2022-2023.

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Areas of Practice

ArbitrationArbitration Mediation & AdrArbitratorsBanking & FinanceBanking, Finance & InsolvencyCommercialCompetitionConflict of LawsCorporate & CommercialCorporationsElectoral LawInsolvencyInsuranceInternational ArbitrationMediationMediatorsPrivate International LawProfessional NegligenceTrade Practices/Consumer Protection

Cases

Qualifications & Memberships

QUALIFICATIONS

BA; LLB; LLM; Mediator (UK & Australia)

Raini holds a Masters of Law from Monash University majoring in contentious insolvency and international arbitration, is a qualified and practising mediator and was dux of her year in ARITA’s Insolvency Education Program. She is admitted to the English Bar as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

Victorian Bar Committees

Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee 2015-2017
Arts & Collections Committee 2017-2020
Bar Council 2019-2020, 2021-2022 and 2022-present
Counsel Committee 2022 - present
Executive Committee of the Commercial Bar Association 2019 - present
Insolvency Section Monitor of the Commercial Bar Association 2015-2019
International Arbitration Committee (and VCAS) 2017 - present
Readers' Course Committee 2021 - present
Women Barristers' Association 2015 - present


Other Committees and Working Groups

ACICA - the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration - Victorian State Committee
International Committee of the Australian Bar Association
Federal Court Corporations and Commercial Users' Group
Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation / Dispute Settlement) 72nd Session in Vienna


Professional Memberships

ARITA - the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (RITP)
CiArb - the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship (FCiArb)
The Law Council of Australia
INSOL International - the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals
UNCCA - the UNCITRAL Coordination Committee for Australia
WIRV - Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria