We focus on resolving disputes quickly, efficiently and often informally, through dispute resolution methods like negotiation, mediation, arbitration. However, when it’s in your interests to litigate, we’ll represent you methodically, robustly and with a view to achieving the best outcome.

Our experience covers ASIC compliance and reporting obligations, shareholder agreements, company constitutions and directors’ duties. So, whether you’re starting a new venture or managing a large company, our corporate governance lawyers give you the advice you need to protect directors and employees, reassure investors and keep regulators satisfied.

We work strategically to protect control, preserve asset value and resolve disputes efficiently and discreetly. By acting quickly and strategically, we can often protect your interests before a dispute causes too much harm or even becomes public.

We work for construction companies and developers, contractors, property owners and commercial tenants in:

• Building defects disputes
• Payment claims and security of payment matters
• Contract termination disputes
• Leasing disputes
• Development and strata-related disputes

We also appear for clients in courts and tribunals including the NSW Supreme Court and District Court, the Federal Court of Australia, NCAT and industry dispute forums.

Our litigation lawyers act for companies, individuals and creditors in insolvency-related disputes including:

• Voidable transaction and unfair preference claims
• Director’s duties and insolvent trading proceedings
• Asset recovery actions
• Creditor and liquidator disputes.

Whether you’re owed money by an insolvent business or your own business is facing insolvency, we move quickly to stabilise risk, protect personal and commercial exposure, and manage any claims strategically to achieve the best outcome for you.

Our defamation and media lawyers advise individuals, business owners and organisations on:

• Defamation claims and defence strategies
• Urgent takedown and correction actions
• Pre-publication legal risk and content review
• Post-publication dispute resolution
• Court proceedings and damages claims

We focus on resolving defamation disputes efficiently – limiting reputational harm, while protecting your public standing and commercial interests.

Our experienced regulatory lawyers represent clients being investigated or penalised in matters involving:

• ASIC investigations and compulsory examinations
• Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) investigations
• Licensing and registration disputes
• RTO registration cancellations
• NDIS registration cancellations

We can help manage your engagement with a regulatory body or government agency through strategic legal advice, interview and investigation support, and defending adverse regulatory action in courts and tribunals.

Our administrative lawyers are experienced in:

• Administrative Review Tribunal matters
• NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) proceedings
• Judicial review applications in Federal and Supreme Courts
• Merit review proceedings

We can guide you through complex review processes and help you build a strong legal case that gives you the best chance of overturning or amending an adverse decision.

We help clients access and use government-held information strategically through:

• Freedom of Information (FOI) applications
• GIPA requests and review processes
• Privacy complaints and regulatory disputes
• Challenges to information access refusals

We also understand how to integrate information access into a broader litigation and regulatory defence strategy, to give you the best chance of success.

We act for employers and executives in enforcing and defending employment-related claims, including:

• Fair Work Commission proceedings
• Fair Work Ombudsman matters
• Breach of employment contract claims
• Termination and redundancy disputes
• Restraints of trade and non-compete disputes
• Confidentiality and intellectual property enforcement
• Adverse action and general protections claims.

Our employment litigation team focuses on protecting commercial interests, securing enforceable outcomes and resolving disputes efficiently through negotiation, court proceedings or urgent injunctive relief where required.