Bill Petrovski, William Roberts Lawyers

Bill is an experienced commercial litigator, adviser, and the co-founder of William Roberts Lawyers.

Bill is the national head of the class actions team at William Roberts, where he also works alongside institutional and corporate clients.

Bill has led both claims and defence teams in many complex litigated disputes as well as managing and coordinating repeat routine claims and defence work. Bill is regularly called upon to act by clients in strategically important matters that significantly impact their business.

Bill’s commercial litigation and advisory experience is broad and includes:

• Acting in some of Australia’s largest class actions on both plaintiff side – including for subrogated insurers, as well as defence side, such as securities claims against Sims Metal, Credit Corp, Ashley Services, Estia Health, and Downer EDI. Consumer claims against National Australia Bank, 3A Composites GmbH, Fairview and Aristocrat Leisure. Financial services claim against AMP, NULIS (NAB) and Suncorp and various mass tort claims involving bushfires.
• Acting for financial institutions in contentious wholesale funding disputes, regulatory matters, contracts and guarantees, including disputes involving allegations of unconscionable conduct and misleading or deceptive conduct and corporate insolvency and personal bankruptcy;
• Advising insurers in disputes related to fraud and policy coverage, property damage, economic loss, building and construction;
• Acting for and advising liquidators, administrators and receivers from major accounting firms concerning company administration, including the negotiation and preparation of deeds of company arrangement, breach of directors’ duties and recovery of compensation for the benefit of creditors from voidable transactions and insolvent transactions;

Contributions to the Practice of Law and Community

• Member of the Federal Court of Australia Class Actions Users’ Committee, where I collaborate with justices of the Court, legal practitioners and academics concerning class action practice and procedure.
• Present at various legal conferences, including for the Law Council of Australia, the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia and Western Sydney University
• Contribute to legal scholarship through peer-reviewed and other publications
• Support various charitable institutions and initiatives.