Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Commercial Litigation

At Argyle, we recognise the stress and disruption to your business and your life that is caused as a result of being involved in a legal dispute. Our primary objective is to give you prompt and strategic advice from the onset, taking into account the benefits and disadvantages of commencing and/or defending legal proceedings. We make it our business to understand your business and what strategy is best suited to you.

At times, proceeding with legal action is not the best option available to you and you may wish seek a resolution to the dispute. In this regard, our Commercial Litigation team has a proven track record of achieving outstanding results for its clients, employing all forms of alternate dispute resolution including mediation, arbitration, and conciliation. Recently our team was involved in several large and complex mediations including successfully recovering approximately $7 million for the beneficiaries of a deceased estate.

There are however other times, where legal proceedings are the appropriate course of action for you. The Commercial Litigation team at Argyle has extensive experience in handling a broad range of commercial disputes across all Australian federal and state courts and tribunals, including successfully running high profile litigation in the High Court of Australia. The team has particular expertise in all forms of trade practices and consumer protection litigation, banking litigation, building and contract disputes, professional negligence actions, regulatory compliance including directors' duties, corporations law disputes, debt recovery, and estate litigation.

We also work closely with the Argyle Family Legal Office and Tax team to provide our clients with a complete suite of legal advice, which not only manages the litigation and dispute resolution process but also the wider commercial objectives of our clients.

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Argyle offers strategic litigation and dispute resolution services across our areas of specialty. We work closely with our clients to understand their business and deliver focused, timely and cost efficient solutions.

Whilst we offer depth and experience over a range of areas, our principal practices include:

• corporate commercial;
• commercial litigation;
• estates;
• financial services;
• insolvency and restructuring;
• intellectual property;
• media; and
• property.

Insolvency and Restructuring

Argyle has specialised insolvency and restructuring expertise. Our technical ability, together with our understanding of their business, delivers to our clients quality commercial advice which is designed to achieve practical and efficient outcomes.

Our expertise includes corporate reconstructions and work outs, credit recovery, liquidation, receiverships, and security enforcement.

Intellectual Property

We have a tight and capable Intellectual Property team. We advise clients on protection of a new idea, including the methods for its commercial exploitation. We have experience and capably conduct multi-jurisdictional disputes. We are able to deal with all facets of intellectual property law. We combine the skills of our Commercial and Litigation teams to deliver comprehensive intellectual property service to our clients.

Media

Our communications and media practice delivers strong commercial effective advice to our clients. We advise and represent interests of various corporate clients in respect of defamation, advertising, and copyright matters.

Our Media team acts for a range of technology and digital media corporations in a variety of matters including acting for vendors and purchasers of businesses, software and hardware suppliers, contract matters such as licenses and subscriber agreements, and privacy law matters.