The initial response in a commercial dispute is often to fight it and defend yourself, and as one of Melbourne’s most experienced commercial litigation practices we can certainly advise you on this approach. Yet it is this same experience that ensures that we examine all the possible approaches and strategies at your disposal together with the likely outcomes across all of the options available to you.
Could your reputation be harmed? Will a particular course of action make your business less attractive to a buyer in the future? How do you proceed where you need a business relationship to continue after an agreement is reached? Should you seek settlement before going to court?
Whether your business is considering to proceed with a dispute or has a claim or demand brought against it, being properly prepared and expertly guided on the potential commercial and legal outcomes puts you in the best possible position to choose a course of action.
Rather than assembling big teams of lawyers on litigation matters, we look closely at your situation to identify the lawyer in our team that has the appropriate level of experience to handle the work, and then let that lawyer run the file. This approach is much more cost effective for clients.
Our team is experienced in initiating and defending disputes in all courts such as the Federal Court, Supreme Court, County Court, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) as well as acting in alternative dispute resolution methods and strategies such as mediation and commercial arbitration.
Services
- Actions against borrowers and guarantors
- Actions arising out of personal and corporate insolvency
- Administrative tribunal hearings
- Building and construction disputes and litigation
- Commercial arbitration
- Commercial contract disputes
- Commercial property and lease disputes
- Debt recovery
- Directors, shareholders, partners and business owner(s) disputes
- Employment law and industrial relations disputes
- Enforcing securities and loan recoveries
- Enforcement of business agreements
- Franchising disputes
- Investigating online and google reviews
- Intellectual property and information technology litigation
- Mergers and acquisitions disputes
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- Sale of business disputes
- Workplace Health and Safety Disputes and Investigations
Recent Experience
- Acting for significant policyholders in a $200 million claim against a large insurance provider
- Advising the shareholders of a publicly listed Company about their rights and subsequent complaint to ASIC
- Acting for family members in a dispute with another family member over approximately $40 million of development property and shares held in a development company
- Acting for a South African Government entity in a $60 million claim against a major accounting firm and an Australian Government organisation
- Drafted numerous submissions in the Financial Services Royal Commission
- Acting for two parties in a range of complex disputes in both the Federal and Supreme Courts arising from the collapse of a national motorsport team
- Acting for an employer group in determining whether an independent contractor was ‘deemed’ an employee and subsequent eligibility to receive compensation for a workplace injury
