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.

Government and Defence

Supplying government and the defence industry.

Technology and Software

Your product scales digitally. Your contracts have to scale with it.

Financial Services

A regulated business, on solid legal footing.

Legal Administration Assistant, Canberra

Canberra office, full time, on site.

Wahlstation for German Referendare

Sydney or Canberra, open all year.

The track record

Judgments and tribunal outcomes, transactions completed, appointments taken, and the conversations we are part of in Australia and in Germany.

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.

Vietnam

Market entry, supply arrangements and dispute resolution for Vietnam.

TRACK RECORD

Track record

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

17 September 2026
ONLINE

Transfer pricing for German businesses in Australia

A webinar with the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Accru Felsers. Fabian Hoffmann on the legal and structuring layer, in German.
21 October 2026
ONLINE

The Arbitration Court at the DIHK, and when a business should choose arbitration

A webinar with the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce on the SGH, the arbitration institution of the 79 German chambers of commerce, which has been running since December 2024. Fabian Hoffmann speaks with Dr Christian Groß, who runs the SGH, moderated by Marko Walde of the Chamber. 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm AEDT, 9.00 am CEST.
29 to 31 October 2026
SEOUL

19th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business

At the invitation of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. Boettcher Law is attending.
April 2027

Boettcher Law turns 20

Twenty years since the firm was founded in April 2007.
THE RECORD

The record

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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.
M&A
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

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.
TALK TO US

Bring us the matter, not the tidy version of it

The person running your matter is the person you deal with. Send us the documents and we will tell you where you stand.

Sydney

Canberra

Frankfurt a.M.