Craig Smith

Craig Smith is the principal of SY Advisors, a Sydney practice in commercial litigation, insolvency and advice for individuals, companies, directors, creditors, debtors and insolvency practitioners across Australia. Practice areas: commercial litigation (complex commercial disputes and contractual claims); insolvency (winding up proceedings, preference claims, voidable transactions and other recovery actions); debt recovery (routine and complex debt recovery proceedings for creditors and debtors); equity and trusts (trustees and beneficiaries, fiduciary duties, third party liability and equitable remedies); tax litigation (defence of recovery proceedings commenced by the Commissioner of Taxation); and commercial advice including PPSA, contracts, directors' duties and other commercial matters. Selected matters where the principal acted at another firm: Re HPack Investments Pty Ltd [2020] NSWSC 1638; Re Earth Civil Australia Pty Ltd (in liq) [2021] NSWSC 966; Kitanovski v Ibrahim [2022] NSWSC 1232; Capers v PSR Refining Services Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 22. There is no charge for a short initial conference to discuss whether we can assist.