Contracts, structures and governance for businesses that need the paperwork to hold when something goes wrong.
Buying or selling a business, from the term sheet and due diligence through to completion and the restraints that follow.
Commercial disputes in the NSW, ACT and Federal courts, resolved early where that is possible and run properly where it is not.
Your product scales digitally. Your contracts have to scale with it.
Judgments and tribunal outcomes, transactions completed, appointments taken, and the conversations we are part of in Australia and in Germany.
A German desk for businesses moving between Australia and the German-speaking market.
Singapore law where it governs the contract, and the arbitral seat that carries much of the region’s work.
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Commercial law for the transactions that build a business and the disputes that threaten one.
Sydney · Canberra · Frankfurt a.M.
Boettcher Law is an Australian commercial law firm, working with businesses, their founders and their boards from Sydney, Canberra and Frankfurt.
Find the area closest to the problem you have. The specific work sits beneath each one, and if none of them is obviously right, tell us the problem and we will tell you who should handle it.
Principal-led
Your matter is run by a principal, not passed down and reported back.
Cross-border by default
For work that starts in one legal system and has to land in another.
Disputes resolved early
We look for the commercial way out first, and litigate properly when there is not one.
Contracts, structures and governance for businesses that need the paperwork to hold when something goes wrong.
Buying or selling a business, from the term sheet and due diligence through to completion and the restraints that follow.
Hiring, managing and ending employment, and defending the claims that follow when a departure turns contentious.
Lending and security on either side of the table, from facility terms to PPSR registration and enforcement.
Commercial disputes in the NSW, ACT and Federal courts, resolved early where that is possible and run properly where it is not.
Cross-border disputes under SIAC, ACICA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules, as counsel and as arbitrator.
Recovering what you are owed, and responding when a counterparty, or your own company, runs out of time.
Contracts, variations, defects and payment claims across the security of payment regimes in NSW and the ACT.
Commercial and residential property, from the contract for sale through leasing to the ACT crown lease questions nobody else asks about.
Moving goods, money and risk across borders, and the regimes that decide whether you can.
Protecting what your business has built, and licensing it to other people without giving it away.
Wills, estate administration and the disputes that follow, including estates with assets in more than one country.
Documents that have to be recognised overseas, notarised and authenticated for the country that will receive them.
Industries
Twelve sectors we work in often enough to know the contracts, the regulators and the failure points before you describe them.
International Desks
A German desk and a South East Asia desk, for work that starts in one legal system and has to land in another.
Not sure which area you need? Describe the problem and we will tell you who should handle it.
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