Empowering professional services to excel
In today’s competitive landscape, professional services firms must navigate complex challenges to thrive. We understand the pressures you face. Our team delivers tailored commercial legal advice that helps you manage risks, resolve disputes, and ensure compliance with regulations.
We provide comprehensive legal support to a diverse range of professional services providers, including accounting firms, insurance brokers, engineers, and law firms. Our expertise is rooted in understanding your industry and the unique challenges you encounter. We partner with you to develop strategic solutions that drive success and mitigate risk.
Our team brings together technical expertise across the wide variety of legal and regulatory disciplines that the sector faces. We combine this with extensive experience, representing major industry players around the world in external and internal disputes, claims, documentation and structuring (including tax).
Navigating complexity with expert legal guidance
Our expertise has turned challenges into triumphs for our clients, with work highlights in the professional services sector including:
One of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms in defence of multiple shareholder class action claims and associated cross claims alleging misleading and deceptive conduct, and negligence.
One of the ‘Big Four’ accounting firms in a high profile sexual harassment proceedings brought in the Federal Court by a former partner of the firm.
Advising and acting for a wide range of professionals (including solicitors, insurance brokers, stockbrokers, engineers and accountants) and their insurers in professional negligence disputes (and coverage disputes).
Advising a top tier law firm which was joined to the Oz Minerals class action. The core issues were continuous disclosure and the scope of the contractual retainer.
A major global consulting firm on allegations regarding breach of non-solicitation obligations by a new employee.
A number of global insurance brokers defending claims concerning brokerage services (and other bespoke services) provided to clients.
Advising professional service providers on terms of service and standard retainer agreements.
- Advising on different limitation of liability schemes under the Professional Standards Act.
