LITIGATION
Our team is experienced and well-resourced and can conduct any type of commercial litigation or alternative dispute resolution process anywhere in Australia.
Mangioni Biggs + Co provides reliable and robust legal representation to clients involved in, or expecting to become involved in, any kind of commercial dispute or litigation. We assist both by developing resolution strategies before a dispute arises or becomes too serious, as well as by appearing in formal proceedings once the time for that has passed.
Our vast experience includes:
Our team has decades of experience in acting for clients on both highly complex and also more straight-forward cases.
Our areas of specialist litigation expertise include all types of commercial disputes, contract disputes, corporations law matters, environment and property disputes, estate and family provision claims, financial claims, class actions, government regulation, information technology disputes, insurance litigation, intellectual property disputes and trade practices claims, as well as partnership, joint venture and shareholder disputes.
Our team has excellent relationships with the best barristers (both senior and junior counsel) in every jurisdiction in which we appear. We also have ready access to a vast array of highly-competent expert witnesses who can provide assistance on even the most obscure technical issues.
Our opponents regard our litigation lawyers as pragmatic, clever and tenacious. Our lawyers are consistently recognised as achieving great commercial outcomes for our clients.
While we are Sydney-based, our lawyers practise in many jurisdictions.
We have extensive experience acting in proceedings in the following Courts:
- The High Court of Australia
- The Federal Court of Australia
- The Family Court & Family Circuit Court of Australia
- The Local Court, District Court and Supreme Court of New South Wales
- The New South Wales Coroners Court
- The County Court and Supreme Court of Victoria
- The Supreme Court of Queensland
- The Supreme Court of Western Australia
Our litigation lawyers have acted on some of the most high-profile and complex disputes in Australia. For example, our litigation lawyers have acted on the following major litigation matters:
- Acting for Goldman Sachs in a $500M civil proceeding brought by the liquidators of HIH in the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- Acting for Pankaj & Radhika Oswal in their $2.5B civil proceeding brought in the Supreme Court of Victoria against ANZ, Yara Fertilisers and Apache Corporation, a case regarded as “among the largest civil litigation cases in the history of the Supreme Court of Victoria”
- Acting for ASX-listed Sirtex Medical in defending a $280M securities class action brought in the Federal Court of Australia
- Acting for a senior executive of a foreign bank in a prosecution brought by the ACCC/DPP in the Federal Court of Australia for criminal cartel conduct in relation to a $2.5B capital raising
Our team has extensive experience in both plaintiff-side and defence-side class action work. We also act for selected litigation funders.
Leveraging our litigation and regulatory expertise, our team offers a full range of services in relation to claims arising out of or in connection with securities, financial services, consumer products, medical product liability, employment practices, and the environment.
On the other side, we regularly represent directors, and companies, in the vigorous defence of representative claims.
We operate in proceedings in all Australian jurisdictions.
We have close relationships with several specialised class action litigation funders. We are familiar with D&O insurance requirements.
Our disputes lawyers realise that, while Court action may be one way of achieving a resolution, there are alternatives, such as private negotiation, arbitration, mediation, conciliation or expert determination, that may be options that are better suited to the circumstances of a particular matter.
Our team is committed to achieving an earlier resolution of a dispute, wherever possible, without resort to litigation – or extending any extant litigation – if a commercially acceptable solution can be found.
Our litigation team also understands that disputes do not take place in a vacuum. We are cognisant of the impacts of disputes on our clients – from an emotional, time-management and financial perspective. Our experience enables us to assist our clients to understand the effects of a dispute and to provide commercial guidance on how best to minimise the impacts of a dispute on them, their staff and their business.