Our services

The lawyers at Strongman & Crouch are experts in resolving corporate and commercial disputes for plaintiff and defendant clients. The firm has built its name in this practice area over more than 140 years. Our lawyers analyse each dispute critically and work with clients to formulate a strategic approach that is designed to achieve their objectives as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Strongman & Crouch possess in-depth knowledge and experience in all forms of dispute resolution and in all courts. This includes mediations, arbitrations, expert determinations and proceedings before courts and tribunals.

Regardless of whether a dispute is large or small, or whether a dispute is on the horizon or is at an acute stage, our lawyers are perfectly equipped to assist clients in navigating towards their desired outcome. This includes contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, tortious claims, administrative law matters, employment disputes and intellectual property disputes.

If you would like to learn more about how we can assist you in a commercial dispute, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Strongman & Crouch has substantial experience in acting both for and against individuals and companies in financial distress and for and against personal and corporate insolvency practitioners.

This includes assisting:

• creditors with registering and enforcing security interests (including PPSR security interests), and taking steps to bankrupt individuals or wind up corporate debtors;
• individual and corporate debtors with potential workouts and restructures, and understanding their legal obligations when under financial distress, bankruptcy or liquidation;
• directors and other clients in resisting insolvent trading claims or other voidable transactions claims brought under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); and
• professional insolvency practitioners with the discharge of their duties, including in respect of public examinations and asset recoveries.

If you have an insolvency related inquiry, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Strongman & Crouch has broad experience in acting in property disputes. We have acted for vendors, purchasers, financiers and estate agents in property related matters ranging from single lot conveyances to large scale commercial developments.

Our lawyers have substantial experience in leasing disputes (both residential and retail), claims to ownership arising from contributions to the property (such as the purchase price) and caveat and mortgage litigation.

If you have an issue concerning property, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Strongman & Crouch has significant experience in all areas of wills and estates, trusts and equity litigation, including in the corporate context, generational and intra-family disputes.

We have acted in a range of small and large complex wills, estates and trusts matters in the Victorian Supreme Court and appellate courts. They have achieved successful outcomes for beneficiary, executor and trustee clients.

In recent decades the firm has been involved in a number of the most high-value family disputes to come before the Victorian courts. Strongman & Crouch’s command of this intricate area of the law allows us to advise clients with confidence, clarity and strategic insight, without the need to ‘skill-up’, all the while keeping in mind our clients’ personal and business objectives.

If you have a question regarding a dispute regarding wills, estates, trusts or equity, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Companies and businesses in Australia are highly regulated by what can be complex guidelines, regulations and laws. Trying to understand complex and long-winded regulatory schemes can be difficult. Dealing with regulators can be a demanding, time-consuming and sometimes frustrating process, diverting businesses away from their core work.

Strongman & Crouch’s lawyers can work alongside clients to deal with regulators and regulation to make the process of getting through the ‘red tape’ as smooth, as inexpensive and as brief as possible.

We have spent years working alongside and against regulators such as ASIC and ACCC and know their processes intimately. Our lawyers have acted in large scale matters for and against ASIC and the ACCC, have worked within the Australian Competition Tribunal and for the Federal Court, and are best-placed to assist clients with any regulatory issues they have: from responding to a request for documents or evidence, to engaging in full-scale litigation.

We have also have significant experience dealing with the R&D Tax Incentive Scheme, currently operated by Innovation Australia (in conjunction with the ATO) including by acting in recent appellate proceedings before the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia.

If you have any regulatory or compliance issues, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Insurance contracts are carefully drafted by insurers, can be complex, fine-printed and, unfortunately, one-sided. Thankfully, insurance contracts exist alongside federal legislation crafted to ensure fairness to insured parties and centuries of court decisions which aid interpretation of policies.

Many businesses and business people will need to deal with an insurer, carefully review a policy, make a claim, seek indemnity or work out if their insurance ‘responds’ at some point in their life. Strongman & Crouch’s lawyers can guide clients through any insurance issue, from reviewing and advising on the policy to acting on clients’ behalf in disputes relating to it. Our lawyers have considerable experience working on large insurance matters, in the Victorian and NSW Supreme Courts and the Federal Court. Our lawyers have acted in many applications, mediations and trials involving insurers.

If you have an insurance issue, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.

Strongman & Crouch has experience in a diverse range of commercial transactions, including business sales and acquisitions.

Our lawyers are able to assist clients in each step of the process, from start to finish, to ensure that transactions proceed smoothly and without unpleasant surprises. This includes assisting with negotiations, conducting due diligence (where required) and documenting agreements.

If you would like to discuss a commercial transaction related issue, please contact one of our lawyers for an initial confidential discussion.