Rebecca Collins

Dr Rebecca Collins has a broad litigation practice with a particular focus on insolvency, financial services, construction and resources disputes. She also has experience in property, professional negligence, consumer law and regulatory matters. Dr Collins has acted for banks, funds, resource companies, administrators, receivers, liquidators, ASIC, property developers, investors and creditors on a wide range of contentious matters. Dr Collins began her career at Mallesons in Perth, including a secondment to NAB where she acted as legal counsel in litigation and advised on recovery issues. Immediately before the bar, she was a senior associate at Allens. She has appeared as counsel in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the District Court, the State Administrative Tribunal, and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. She has also acted in both domestic and international arbitrations. Dr Collins has a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of WA with prizes in Evidence, Conflict of Laws and the KW Hatfield Memorial Fund Prize. She obtained a BCL from Oxford University.