ACCOUNTANTS & PROFESSIONAL ADVISERS
Legal support for your practice. Experienced representation for your clients.
When the financial picture reveals a legal problem, bring in a team that understands the commercial stakes.
Discuss a referral Help for your practiceCOMMERCIAL LITIGATION / INSOLVENCY
01 / HOW WE HELP
Focused legal support for a dispute affecting your own practice, or independent representation for a client who needs it.
Commercial disputes can put your practice, relationships and reputation under pressure.
When the financial picture reveals a legal problem, help your client take the next step.
PRACTICAL RESOURCE / FOR ACCOUNTANTS
Choose the situation below for the information worth gathering and a sensible next step. No client details are entered or collected in this guide.
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Identify the disagreement, financial warning sign or document requiring attention.
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Keep original records and a dated chronology. Retain earlier versions when corrections are made.
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Confirm who needs advice, the outcome sought and any dates requiring prompt attention.
EXPLORE A SITUATION
Gather: the person’s role, the records requested, dates of requests and responses, and the relevant constitution or shareholders agreement.
Consider a referral: where access is refused, authority is disputed or the disagreement is obstructing the business.
A director and a shareholder may have different rights. Avoid assuming that every owner has the same entitlement to information.
Gather: ledger entries, bank records, loan terms, approvals and the communications explaining the transaction.
Consider a referral: where repayment, authority or the purpose of a payment is contested.
Describe the accounting treatment separately from the parties’ competing accounts of what was agreed.
Gather: ownership details, the constitution, shareholders agreement, valuation material and any written exit proposals.
Consider a referral: where deadlock affects operations or the parties dispute transfer, valuation or buy-out terms.
Clarify whom your practice acts for and obtain authority before sharing client material.
Gather: current cash-flow forecasts, aged creditors and debtors, tax and superannuation liabilities, and any demands or court documents.
Consider prompt advice: where debts remain unpaid outside usual terms, records are incomplete or formal recovery action has started.
Financial warning signs call for assessment; they do not, by themselves, establish insolvency. Appropriate accounting, legal and registered liquidator advice may be needed.
Flag it at the outset. Provide the document, the date received and any date stated in it. Tell us immediately if there is a concern about records being lost or assets being moved.
Start with names, a short outline and urgency. Do not send confidential client documents without appropriate authority.
General information, not a legal assessment. Source for financial warning signs: ASIC — What to do if your company is insolvent. Reviewed 11 November 2026.
02 / A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Commercial disputes demand an understanding of the business, the evidence and the professional responsibilities involved.
DOYLE’S GUIDE 2026
Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Queensland
View Doyle’s Guide recognitionCPA AUSTRALIA
Principal Solicitor Mark Harley practises in commercial litigation and insolvency. His previous formal appointment to CPA Australia’s disciplinary tribunal brings a relevant professional perspective to this work.
More about MarkThis historical appointment does not imply CPA Australia’s endorsement of Boss Lawyers.
03 / THE NEXT STEP
Provide the parties’ names, a short outline and any urgent deadlines. Obtain appropriate authority before sharing confidential client material.
We assess whether we can act and whether the matter falls within our practice. Substantive advice follows an agreed engagement.
Where appropriate, we define the scope and provide the relevant costs information before legal work begins.
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEXT MOVE
Tell us briefly what has happened and what needs to be resolved. We will explain the next step in our intake process.
Make an enquiry 1300 267 711General information only, not legal advice. Contacting Boss Lawyers does not establish a solicitor–client relationship. Engagement is subject to conflicts, agreed scope and applicable costs arrangements. The client agreement prevails.
