Mills Oakley’s commercial dispute resolution team is composed of 19 partners and 52 qualified lawyers across five offices throughout Australia. The team is well versed in commercially significant and high-profile commercial disputes, including class actions, investigations and royal commissions, across a broad range of industry sectors.
Some key partners of the team include Darren James, Andrew Brown, Stuart Walter, Dale Cliff, Graham Maher, Brendan Taylor and Mark Wenn.
Among the commercial disputes, the firm acted for MSS Securities in its defence of class action proceedings brought against it in respect of claims by the relatives of over 840 persons who died after being infected with Covid-19, and over 22,000 Australians infected with Covid-19, following outbreaks of the coronavirus in the Victorian State Government hotel quarantine programme. This was one of the first class action proceedings to emerge from the outbreaks of Covid-19 from the quarantine programme. The proceeding was very high profile, attracting ongoing media and government interest.
Another ongoing matter sees the firm acting for RP Data in a breach of copyright case related to photographs of residential property across Australia as they appear on the RP Professional and realestate.com.au webpages. The outcome of the appeal has the potential to dramatically change the property data landscape in this country if all historical photographs of residential property need to be removed.
In October 2022, the firm hired Ben Patrick from Patrick and Associates as partner.
Marina Square Retail, Nissan Financial Services Australia, Quest Serviced Apartments and Real Estate Tool Box
are key clients.
