Commercial Disputes
Our disputes team consists of eight lawyers with well over a century of collective legal experience. The team has corporate and commercial streams ensuring expertise in the area which concerns you.
We work with you to obtain the best possible outcome in the shortest possible time. We understand how disruptive litigation is to your key focus, doing business. With that in mind we aim to work with you to understand the dispute and then to make your problem our problem. This leaves you free to concentrate on what you do best, leaving us to do what we do best.
Amongst other things, our team members have acted for:
- one of South Australia's largest professional service firms in proceedings involving the breach of restraints in connection with the acquisition of a financial planning business. A resolution was negotiated prior to trial
- an ASX 200 company in a Federal Court dispute involving allegations of breach of directors duties, misuse of confidential information and passing off of a sophisticated electronic device
- the sellers of a significant manufacturing business in a Federal Court action arising from the purported rescission of the contract for the acquisition of that business
- the managers of a protected Estate worth more than $10 million in a South Australian Supreme Court dispute between potential beneficiaries. The well publicised dispute was resolved at mediation
However, in many respects, the examples we are most proud of are the ones you would have never heard of. These are disputes which were settled, using our collaborative and pro-active approach, before they got to Court. One example of this was an alternative dispute strategy which we employed on behalf of an ASX 50 company. Our client faced a seven figure service warranty claim made by one of Australia’s largest private businesses. Our strategy saw the claim defeated within one month of us receiving instructions and without resort to court proceedings.