Maria Yiasemides

Maria Yiasemides has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation and proceedings involving insolvency and restructuring issues. She is a highly accomplished litigator with a successful track record in noteworthy and hotly contested disputes involving well-known global corporate collapses and reorganizations.

Maria also advises on cross-border restructuring matters, including recognition proceedings and multijurisdictional schemes of arrangement. She is a Fellow of INSOL International (turnaround and insolvency federation) and sits on various insolvency and restructuring committees, including the INSOL International Young Members Committee and the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

Maria is also focused on privacy and cybersecurity-related litigation and regularly advises companies on privacy and data breach issues.

Her significant experience includes advising a bidder in the restructure of Virgin Australia Airlines; acting for the Insurance Commission of Western Australia in relation to its interests in the Bell Group liquidation; acting for external administrators in significant retail and business collapses, including Topshop/Topman, American Apparel, Payless Shoes, NewSat, and Maritimo; and acting in complex disputes for Transurban, Peabody, Hancock Prospecting, IBM, Sanofi, and Woolworths. Prior to joining Jones Day in 2014, she acted for Fuji Xerox in several disputes.

Maria is a Councillor of the Friends of the Australian Ballet and prior to that served on the board of Australia's largest not-for-profit running organization, Sydney Striders Running Club.