Litigation
Overview
Freehills has one of the largest commercial litigation practices in the world with dedicated offices throughout Australia and South-East Asia. With over 300 litigators serving this region, we have the expertise to respond to all aspects of dispute resolution which your business may face.Our areas of expertise include:
- administrative law
- alternative dispute resolution
- arbitration
- class actions
- competition and market regulation
- corporate regulatory
- defamation
- enforcing your IP rights
- insurance
- international dispute resolution
- international trade
- product liability
- project dispute resolution
- tax litigation and dispute resolution
- turnaround and insolvency.
- anti-dumping litigation
- commissions and inquiries
- contractual disputes
- directors’ and officers’ liability.
Our Litigation group regularly acts in many of the most significant and complex commercial matters occurring in Australia. A few recent examples include:
- successfully defending Citigroup in civil penalty proceedings brought by ASIC
- the University of Melbourne's successful dental health patent litigation
- the ASX merger with the SFE, creating the leading financial markets exchange in the Asia Pacific
- acting for 20 banks defending claims from the Bell Group, and
- defending Telstra in its first shareholder class action.