Commercial Dispute Resolution

Our Commercial Dispute Resolution team's principal focus is on resolving our clients' issues quickly and efficiently. We take the time to understand and analyse the issues, to provide informed legal and practical advice and to consult with you in order to adopt the strategy appropriate to achieve the best outcome available.

In doing so, we apply our extensive legal knowledge and our considerable experience in dealing with a diversity of disputes and use our skills in negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation across a range of Federal and State courts and tribunals, including industry tribunals.

While our goal is to obtain the best result available, our role includes keeping our clients informed and advised and, to achieve this, we communicate regularly with them and remain accessible to them.

Where appropriate, we enlist the expertise of other lawyers and specialists throughout the firm and make use of our membership of the MSI Global Alliance of lawyers to access lawyers interstate and overseas.

  • Administrative law review

    Review of decisions of the range of administrative and statutory tribunals.

  • Compulsory Acquisition

    Review and advising on compensation issues and conducting negotiations with authorities.

  • Contractual and commercial disputes

    Resolving issues in the interpretation and enforcement of contracts.

  • Debt recovery

    Prompt recovery of debts in a range of courts and jurisdictions.

  • Directors duties

    Advising directors on obligations and duties and their enforcement.

  • Franchise disputes

    Enforcing and interpreting of agreements for franchisors and franchisees.

  • Insolvency and restructuring

    Liquidations, administrations, receiverships, bankruptcy, preference claims.

  • Intellectual property

    Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, copyright, trade marks, licensing, confidentiality agreements, restraints of trade.

  • Partnership / shareholder disputes

    Interpreting agreements and obligations and enforcing entitlements.

  • Professional negligence

    Disputes with professionals as to duties, quality of service and costs.

  • Property disputes

    Dealing with ownership, lease and contract of sale disputes and enforcement of obligations.

  • Retention of title

    Interpretation and enforcement of clauses and obligations.

  • Trade Practices and Fair Trading Acts

    Enforcing and interpretation of obligations under legislation.

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