It is critical that you obtain expert advice to enforce or escape a contract. Often, unclear and ambiguous terms in contracts can cause costly and unpleasant disputes between parties resulting in non- commercial outcomes for all parties involved.

Our focus is to identify the crux of a contractual dispute early on provide you expert advice on settling the dispute as soon as possible prior to mediation or at mediation.

Our expert team can help you with:

1. Business contracts and commercial agreements
2. Mortgages, securities, guarantees and other financial instruments
3. Commercial, industrial and residential property, leasing and caveats
4. Employment disputes
5. Insurance policies and contracts
6. Australian Competition and Consumer Act and Australian Consumer Law
7. Joint venture, partnerships and development arrangements

Disputes in franchise relationships are very common and often arise due to lack of disclosure and unexpected and hidden costs and charges. Our experienced franchising lawyers can provide franchisors and franchisees advice on settling disputes as soon as possible so that you can all get on with business.

We can assist franchisors and franchisees in navigating the dispute resolution process set out in the Franchise Code of Conduct to ensure you comply with statutory obligations when negotiating and settling disputes.

Our expert lawyers can guide you through the entire debt recovery process from sending letters of demands to initiating proceeds and bankruptcy and liquidation. We provide timely and expert advice so you can act as quickly as possible to maximise your chances of recovering

We have over 4 decades of experience in assisting individuals and business recovery debt against small and large debtors. Our transparent and collaborative approach has help many clients collect debt, including their legal fees.

Property disputes can be complex and often involve large sums of money. We have over 4 decades of experience in assisting clients with property disputes, including leasing, mortgage and property defaults, purchase and sale contractual disputes, security interests and caveats.

We act for various landlords and tenants in retail lease disputes which require specific statutory procedures to be followed. This includes disputes about rent arrears, reviews, make and maintenance, damage and destruction, fit-out and lease renewals and options.

We offer complete solutions to shareholders, directors, partners and business people to resolve commercial disputes as early as possible to avoid costly and lengthy litigation. Our expert and experienced lawyers assist you with identifying the crux of the issues and achieve a commercially sound resolution to suit the interest of all parties involved.

In business disputes it is vital to identify from the outset:

1. Can the parties resolve the dispute commercially and amicably?
2. Is there a way to separate the business to allow each partner to be independent?
3. Or, can one partner buy another partner out?
4. Alternatively, can the business be sold and the proceeds be shared between the parties.

It is vital to stay focused on the issues in dispute and not let your personality dictate your actions. Often, business disputes between partners are emotional and personal. Therefore, to avoid expensive legal costs, we assist you to focus on identifying the issues and coming to timely resolution as early as possible.

Workplace disputes are common with big and small employers. Our expert workplace lawyers can assist you with identifying the issues at hand and achieving a resolution in a timely manner to avoid expensive legal costs.

We have acted for employers in proceedings in the Fair Work Commission, Federal Circuit Court, Human Rights Commission, Anti- Discrimination Commissioner and Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal. We are highly experienced with:

1. Unfair dismissal applications
2. Adverse action
3. Bullying and harassment complaints
4. Discrimination complaints
5. Sexual harassment complaints
6. Investigations by the Fair Work Ombudsman

Often, we find that employees make complaints in circumstances where the employer is not at fault. These complaints often arise due to personal grievances and disgruntle. We can assist you in defending such proceedings so that you can focus on what you do best, your business.