Boettcher Law at the Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business
The 19th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business, Seoul, 29 to 31 October 2026. Fabian Hoffmann travelled with the German-Australian Chamber’s delegation.
October 31, 2026
Corporate & Commercial
Contracts, structures and governance for businesses that need the paperwork to hold when something goes wrong.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buying or selling a business, from the term sheet and due diligence through to completion and the restraints that follow.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Commercial disputes in the NSW, ACT and Federal courts, resolved early where that is possible and run properly where it is not.
Technology and Software
Your product scales digitally. Your contracts have to scale with it.
Articles
Where the law changed, what it now requires, and what a business has to do about it.
Guides
One question worked through end to end, with the provisions and the decisions it rests on.
Case notes
What a judgment decided, and what follows from it for anyone in the same position.
Germany
A German desk for businesses moving between Australia and the German-speaking market.
Singapore
Singapore law where it governs the contract, and the arbitral seat that carries much of the region’s work.
MOMENTUM
Boettcher Law Momentum
What we have done, and where we will be. Judgments and tribunal outcomes, transactions completed, appointments taken, and the conversations we are part of in Australia and in Germany.
WHAT IS NEXT
Where we will be
5 November 2026
SINGAPORE
SIArb Commercial Arbitration Symposium and Annual Dinner
The Singapore Institute of Arbitrators’ annual symposium at the Old Parliament Chamber, followed by its Annual Dinner. Boettcher Law is attending.
April 2027
Boettcher Law turns 20
Twenty years since the firm was founded in April 2007.
APK SEOUL 2026
Boettcher Law at the Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business
Seoul, 29 to 31 October 2026. Fabian Hoffmann travelled with the German-Australian Chamber’s delegation from Australia.
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Briefed by both ambassadors, then three days with the region’s German business community.
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Critical minerals, trade agreements, defence and market entry. The conference in four themes.
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With the delegation from Australia
The Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business is convened by the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, with the German chambers of commerce abroad. The 19th conference met in Seoul from 29 to 31 October 2026 and brought together leaders of German and Asia-Pacific business and government, including ministers of both countries and Roland Busch, chief executive of Siemens and chair of the Asia-Pacific Committee.
Fabian Hoffmann travelled as one of about fifteen members of the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce’s delegation from Australia. Before the conference opened, the delegation was received at the Australian Embassy in Seoul for a political briefing by Jeffrey Robinson, Australia’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. It was then briefed on Korean law and market entry by the Seoul law firm Kim & Chang, and on the German-Australian relationship by Beate Grzeski, Germany’s Ambassador to Australia.
At the conference the delegation took Australia’s seat at the Chamber network’s business lunch for Japan, Australia and New Zealand, where defence, mining and the free trade agreements were discussed with the Ambassador and the heads of the chambers.
Boettcher Law is a Platinum Partner of the German-Australian Chamber.
THE RECORD
The record
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Boettcher Law on the Arbitration Court at the DIHK, for the German-Australian Chamber
The Chamber’s webinar on the SGH, the arbitration court of the German chambers. Our half: what the clause decides, and where the SGH fits next to SIAC.
October 21, 2026
Boettcher Law at the German-Australian Business Day in Canberra
A panel on AI and innovation in the German-Australian partnership. Our question: what a business owns when AI makes it, and who funds what AI replaces.
October 21, 2026
Boettcher Law at the German-Australian Chamber’s defence roundtable
The Chamber brought its members together on the defence sector. We spoke to the groundwork a smaller German supplier needs before it can win work in Australia.
August 21, 2026
Sharai Projects v Gupta: builder’s claim dismissed for our clients
We defended a builder’s claim for a $28,200 final progress payment. The Court held the fixed price contract was a sham and dismissed the claim.
August 19, 2026
Manny v David Lardner Lawyers: negligence claim dismissed, and the appeal refused
We acted for a firm of solicitors sued in negligence. The Supreme Court entered verdicts for the defendants and the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal.
April 4, 2024
Gindy v Capital Lawyers: claim against solicitors fails at trial
We acted for a law firm and two of its principals in a professional negligence claim tried over 88 days. Judgment was entered for the defendants.
November 17, 2021
Read v Burns: judgment for our client on a misleading conduct claim
We acted for the solicitor sued over a serviced apartment purchase. After trial there was judgment for our client against the plaintiff, with costs.
July 27, 2017
Planet Red v Commissioner of ACT Revenue: two valuations set aside
We acted for the owner of blocks in the Sydney Building. Two of three unimproved value determinations were set aside and replaced with lower values.
March 22, 2017
Basan v Watts McCray: proceeding transferred to the ACT
We acted for the second defendant in a professional negligence claim commenced in Western Australia. The Supreme Court of Western Australia transferred the proceeding to the ACT.
October 6, 2016
OneSteel Trading v Arnold: sale proceeds held on trust for our client
We acted for a creditor under a guarantee. The Court held that $21,800 of the sale proceeds of the guarantor’s property was caught by his undertakings.
March 30, 2015
Cooper v Myrtace Consulting: leave for a derivative action refused
We acted for the company in a shareholder’s application for leave to sue its director in the company’s name. The Federal Court refused leave, with costs.
May 14, 2014
Aboud v Aboud: verdict for our client on a claim over family chattels
We acted for the defendant in a claim over household possessions said to belong to a parent. The Court found every disputed item was a completed gift.
July 24, 2009
SELECTED MATTERS
Work we have done for clients
Acted for a German engineering group on the transfer of its Australian subsidiary, including the resident director arrangements that followed.
Advised the shareholders of an Australian logistics group on the sale of their shares, where the accountant was the seller’s only signatory.
Acted for a German medical device manufacturer on award coverage and classification for its Australian employees.
Acting for a German consulting group in a dispute arising out of an enterprise software implementation in Australia.
Acted for an embassy on overtime and time off in lieu under the Clerks award.
Acting for a German supplier on recovery of a euro denominated debt from a New Zealand buyer.
Acted for a lessee on a sublease of commercial premises in the ACT, including the section 104 certificate.
WHERE WE ACT
Three offices, two legal systems, two languages
Offices
Sydney
Canberra
Frankfurt am Main
Courts, tribunals and admissions
Working languages
English
German
HOW WE GOT HERE
From 2007 to three offices
1978
Uwe Boettcher in practice
A career that starts at the firm now known as King & Wood Mallesons, then founding member and managing partner of Meyer Boettcher & Clapham, now Meyer Vandenberg, then special counsel at Minter Ellison and partner at Abbott Tout.
2007
Boettcher Law founded in Canberra
The ACT practice, which is its own jurisdiction: crown leases, its own security of payment coverage, its own tribunal.
2023
Sydney
The Australian commercial practice opens in Sydney.
2023
German Professional Services Alliance
The firm joins the GPSA, which places one professional per service line per country, so the accounting and tax side of a client’s matter sits with a member firm rather than a stranger.
2025
New Sydney premises
The Sydney office moves to 201 Elizabeth Street.
2026
Frankfurt am Main
An operating office in Germany, at Opernplatz 14, rather than a German qualification held in Australia.
Today
Three offices, two legal systems
Sydney, Canberra and Frankfurt am Main, with special counsel in Singapore, working in English and German, and growing.
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- Medical Technology and Life Sciences
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