Overview

Understanding your industry

Operating within a dynamic business environment can raise often unforeseen challenges requiring expert, informed advice. Many of these challenges require proven guidance and support from across the legal spectrum.

DibbsBarker comprises teams of lawyers combining to provide clarity and remedy to a range of complex issues. Adding to our established industry reputation across Finance, Insolvency and Recoveries, we have advised clients on:

• workplace relations considerations arising from employee fraud
• emerging industry regulation and implications
• insolvency and intellectual property valuation and realisation
• retailer and consumer finance advice from ‘start up’ to franchising
• advertising rules and regulations, and
• all manner of merger, acquisition & disposals activity.

How we can help

At DibbsBarker we pride ourselves on our contacts within the industry and our ability to work closely with our clients to build on the strong relationships we enjoy. Our legal teams have represented the growing requirements of various banking and other financial institutions and remains valued advisors to many of Australia’s most recognised financial services institutions.

Combined we comprise experts in FSR, Capital Raisings, IPOs, Corporate Advisory, Workplace Relations, Property, Insolvency, Debt Recovery, Regulation and Compliance, Trade Practices and Intellectual Property and IT.

We continue to advise clients on day to day capabilities and processes, security and fraud, new product and service development, electronic platforms, and growing further business efficiencies.

Industry participation

DibbsBarker are the honorary lawyers to the Overseas Bankers Association of Australia. We are also active members of Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia (IPAA) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL). DibbsBarker currently holds a representative position on the ASIC Financial Services Reform Consultative Committee. Our members also participate within the following industry bodies:

• Law Council of Australia: Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee
• Inter Pacific Bar Association: Insolvency Group
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia
• Bankers and Financial Services Law Association
• The Academics Group of Insol International
• Banking Committee of Union de Advocate
• Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Our Group has held speaking roles at numerous seminars for the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and other external industry seminar providers on a variety of insolvency issues. We have also supported numerous industry participants and clients through in-house training and education programs, including for Deloittes, KPMG, KordaMentha, Pilot Partners, Grant Thornton, Vouris and Bell, Lawler Partners and SimsPartners on related matters.