Jason is a director of SV Partners and has over 25 years’ experience in corporate and personal insolvency matters at leading insolvency and advisory firms providing practical and commercial advice to financiers, creditors and directors.
Jason has significant experience in bank and financial institution advisory assignments for most of the major banks and second tier financiers. These assignments have included trade on receiverships, security enforcement, property and going concern business sales, investigating accountants’ reports and pre-lending reviews. Jason is a specialist in complex corporate insolvency matters and bankrupt estates and is regarded as one of the leading personal insolvency experts in Australia.
Jason has the required expertise to help manage the business recovery and restructuring process, frequently being sought out by financiers, lawyers and creditors to conduct in-depth investigations and examinations. Jason has given evidence before the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
In 2018, Jason was appointed as a National Board Director of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA) having been elected to the committee of the NSW/ACT Division in 2014. Jason serves on a number of Board sub-committees and panels including:
- The ASIC/ARITA liaison committee
- The AFSA/ARITA liaison committee (Deputy Chair)
- The ASIC/AFSA/ARITA Joint Liaison committee
- The ARITA finance committee
- The ARITA membership committee (Deputy Chair)
- An ARITA representative for new the Liquidator and Bankruptcy Trustee application interview and disciplinary panels.
Jason has been a presenter at the 2014 National Practical Bankruptcy Congress, the 2015 ARITA National Conference in Perth, at the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 ARITA NSW State Conferences, at the ARITA SMP conferences in Port Douglas in 2018 and the Barossa Valley in 2022 and at the ARITA National conference on the Gold Coast in 2023. In 2015 Jason presented on insolvency case experiences at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and in 2016 was interviewed by Associate Professor Jason Harris in respect of working in bankruptcy for the ARITA Advanced Insolvency Course. In 2017, Jason was admitted as a Fellow of ARITA in recognition of his services to ARITA and a leader of the restructuring and insolvency profession. In 2022, Jason hosted the ARITA online Bankruptcy Expert Series.
In December 2022, Jason was admitted as a Fellow of CAANZ for his services to ARITA and the insolvency profession.
Jason Porter