Our primary objective is to keep our clients out of court if at all possible and seek to resolve disputes by way of negotiation or other non-litigated, means. Of course, litigation is sometimes unavoidable. Our lawyers’ experience and understanding of the Court processes enable us to advise our clients on litigation strategies that will deliver optimal outcomes. Litigation can be costly and time consuming and often does not deliver the optimal desired outcome. As such we constantly review strategy and think outside the box for a resolution, whether it be through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution or, indeed, litigation. We act for individuals and large and small organisations in a wide range of disputes and industries. We understand that disputes can be highly disruptive and divert valuable time and resources from your core activities. At the outset of any matter, we provide a thorough assessment of your position and a recommended a strategy or options to minimise your risks and provide a cost effective, timely and commercially acceptable resolution to your dispute. Throughout a dispute, we work collaboratively with our clients to manage their legal costs and the impact of the dispute on their businesses. Our goal is to get to the core issues of the dispute fast and achieve a commercial outcome quickly and cost effectively.
Our expertise and experience
Our dispute resolution and litigation specialists have extensive experience in most disputes that arise in a commercial context including the following areas:- Banking and finance
- Building and construction
- Commercial and contract
- Competition and consumer law
- Corporations law proceedings and advising directors and shareholders
- Defamation
- Property, development and environment and planning
- Insolvency and reconstruction
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Securities recovery and enforcement, including personal property securities
- Strata Title and neighbour disputes
- Technology and intellectual property
- Trusts and Estates
Representative matters
- High volume dispute and litigation work for Australian financial institutions.
- Acting in multiple recovery proceedings on behalf of a major asset leaseback financier against defaulting clients and associated security providers.
- Various Supreme Court of NSW proceedings appointing trustees for sale of jointly owned residential and commercial property and litigated dispute as to contributions.
- Multiple lease termination disputes including acting for tenants and landlords in respect to applications to the Supreme Court of NSW for relief against forfeiture.
- Applying for and resisting various applications in minority shareholder oppression proceedings brought against companies in the Supreme Court.
- Acting for the plaintiff in an intellectual property infringement dispute and enforcement of intellectual property.
- Acting for various plaintiffs on rejected Development Consents against local Council, including for residential property owners and childcare centre operator, and obtaining approval through the Land & Environment Court.
- Advising and assisting defendants in action taken by the Department of Education against childcare centre clients.
