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
National Head of Forensic Consulting
T  +61 7 3222 0200
M  +61 413 016 626
E  joseph.box@au.gt.com

Rodger Flynn
Managing Partner - Brisbane
T +61 7 3222 0299
M +61 419 721 163
E rodger.flynn@au.gt.com

Darryn Hockley
Partner - Financial Advisory
T  +61 3 8663 6220
+61 409 024 841
darryn.hockley@au.gt.com

Yuann Leow
Associate Director
T +61 3 8320 2295
M +61 433 319 534
E yuann.leow@au.gt.com