Commercial disputes

We are able to provide objective advice and expert opinion, including economic loss and opportunity loss quantification, in range of areas including:

• Misrepresentation, breach of contract or warranty
• Trade Practices Act
• Wasted expenditure quantification 
• Employment or Executive payment disputes
• Intellectual Property (IP) disputes or infringements
• Professional Negligence 
• Franchise disputes
• Royalty or licence disputes

Our team’s size and extensive general accounting experience us to also undertake:

• Investigation into financial transactions, including in Shareholder Disputes
• Reconstruction of financial records, accounts or a series of transactions
• Quantification of earn out and other adjustment provisions within Sale and Purchase Agreement

Our Partners have experience acting in commercial disputes acting as:

• Jointly appointed Single Expert
• Court Appointed Expert
• Shadow Expert
• Institute of Chartered Accountants Appointed Expert
• Independent Party Expert
• Arbitrator appointed by the Supreme Court of Queensland
• Expert Determinator 
• Pre-action advisor

Our team’s expert opinions are routinely put to test in the Courts and we are specialists in providing Expert Oral Testimony in Court when needed.  

Joe Box
Partner - Litigation & Forensic Consulting
T  +61 7 3222 0200
M  +61 413 016 626
E  joseph.box@au.gt.com

Darryn Hockley
Associate Director
T  +61 3 8663 6000
M  +61 409 024 841
E  darryn.hockley@au.gt.com

Anne Dale
Senior Manager
T  +61 7 3222 0200
E  anne.dale@au.gt.com