Practice Areas

• Banking and finance including loans, securities & mortgages
• Conveyancing
• Due diligence and investigatory work
• GST advices
• Leasing of commercial, industrial and retail premises
• Negotiating terms and conditions of property agreements

• Owners corporations including disputes
• Planning law including applications and objections at VCAT
• Property taxes including rates and land tax advice
• Residential and commercial property transactions
• Sale and purchase of businesses
• Subdivisions and developments

• Advising, drafting and negotiating commercial loans
• Commercial dispute resolution
• Directors’ duties, shareholders’ rights and legal compliance
• Discretionary, unit and hybrid trusts
• Due diligence
• Intellectual property including trademarks and copyright
• Joint ventures
• Negotiation and preparation of commercial agreements

• Shareholder agreements
• Share and unit share sales
• Sale and purchase of businesses and/or property
• Compliance with regulator’s requirements; e.g. ACCC
• Asset management and protection
• Business creation, exit and succession planning
• Partnership agreements
• Sale and purchase of businesses

• Divorce
• Property settlements
• Negotiating and reaching settlements
• Documenting settlements
• Including complex business, company and trust structures
• Spousal maintenance
• Binding financial agreements
• Before, during and after marriage or relationship financial agreements

• Protection of assets
• De facto relationships
• Same sex relationships
• Children’s matters
• Developing and implementing workable parenting arrangements
• Child support
• Intervention orders (family violence) 
• Urgent injunctions

• Advising and drafting wills and testamentary trusts
• Drafting powers of attorney
• Guardianship and administration of estates including probate
• Preparing a Will
• Superannuation death benefit claims
• Testamentary trusts

General/Civil Litigation:

• Appeals  and reviews
• Breach of directors’ duties
• Building
• Defamation
• Discrimination
• Debt recovery and statutory demands
• Employment
• Insolvent trading
• Insurance
• Personal injury
• Property related
• Trade practice issues
• Will disputes

Commercial Litigation:

• Contracts and commercial agreements
• Intellectual property
• Shareholders’ and partnership disputes
• Trade practices

• Trademarks
• Confidentiality
• Copyright
• Patents

• Assault
• Asset confiscation
• Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) examinations and prosecutions
• Australian Crime Commission (ACC) examinations and prosecutions
• Commercial and corporate crime
• Disciplinary Tribunals (VCAT and AAT)
• Property offences
• Traffic offences

Plaintiff or Defendant claims, for wide and various professions. Particular expertise in the professions of:

• Accountants
• Brokers
• Builders/architects
• Lawyers
• Cost disputes with Lawyers
• Financial planners and advisors
• Liquidators
• Real estate agents and valuers
• Trustees

• Arbitration
• Conciliation
• Litigation
• Mediation
• Negotiation

• Building disputes and negotiations
• Disputes with home improvement work (renovations)
• Advice for subcontractors
• Advice on joint ventures
• Security of payments

• Delays in building projects
• Changes in contract price
• Fence disputes
• Development applications

• Acting for firms and financial institutions
• Court appearances
• Experience litigating in all court jurisdictions
• Network of over 3,500 barristers nationwide

• Advice for Creditors
• Advice for Debtors
• Initiating debt collection
• Legal proceedings