Chris is an experienced commercial disputes and insolvency lawyer. Chris has helped clients with disputes spanning a wide range of industries. This includes commercial construction, engineering, transport and logistics, mining and industrial. Chris brings decades of experience in dispute resolution to the table, focused on ensuring that matters are run efficiently, effectively and with “eyes wide open” as to the litigation process.
As a senior litigator, Chris’ focus is on ensuring that team members working dispute files have a full assessment and understanding of the relevant legal issues likely to arise, are live to procedural hurdles or processes, and are proactively ensuring that each matter has a viable exit or resolution strategy wherever possible.
Project highlights
Sydney Football Stadium
Acting for a major subcontractor to ensure project completion was viable in circumstances where supplier was in severe financial distress.
Transport & Logistics
Acting to achieve a successful resolution for a logistics company accused of over-charging by a major manufacturer.
Civil Construction
Acting for a civil contractor seeking to recover loss and damage from wet hire company due to delays arising from non-performance of promised specifications.
While the majority of construction projects end up largely fine, they are also areas ripe with opportunity for... friction. Some of that friction escalates into full scale disputes, but most of it gets resolved one way or another.
If you're running a company in Australia, you've likely come across the term insolvency. While the concept might spark panic in the business world, understanding it is essential, both when it comes to your own business and that of the people you deal with.
Christmas is a happy time for most, home with family or out with friends. But while you’re sipping eggnog, there’s every chance that some kind of ticking time bomb is waiting for you back on site or at the office.
