Debt Recovery
Bad debts are bad for business. When it comes to debt collection, the Quinn & Scattini Commercial Litigation team has the experience and the expertise necessary to ensure our clients are paid appropriately with minimal delay, cost and inconvenience to you.
The Commercial Litigation team has a broad depth of experience in debt collection. This experience ranges from making simple Magistrate Court claims and enforcing judgments, to prosecuting bankruptcy proceedings and winding-up applications, and pursuing claims against liquidators or administrators in relation to preferential payments.
Equally, the team has significant experience in dealing with delay tactics, “head in the sand” approaches, baseless refusals to pay, debtors with financial difficulties, as well as genuine disputes. Our Litigation lawyers provide each client with an individually tailored approach depending entirely on the nature of the debt and the debtor.
In the case of a genuine dispute, our lawyers can and will litigate the matter. However, our team has both the skill and experience necessary to distinguish authentic disputes from “time wasters” – and will take suitable action to ensure each case is dealt with appropriately. In some instances, nothing less than the most aggressive approach will be effective; in other instances, negotiation and reconciliation may produce better results.
The Commercial Litigation team has extensive contacts throughout the region who aid in the location and serving of even the most elusive of debtors; the team’s use of these resources can help minimise your costs.
In addition to the pure debt collection services available from the Commercial Litigation team, our lawyers can also provide you with suitable terms and conditions of trade or supply that can help protect you and your business from bad debtors in the future. These terms and conditions are tailored appropriately, and can include terms providing retention of title or other security, personal guarantees, penalty interest on overdue amounts, and the right to recover your collection costs from the debtor.
Contact the Quinn & Scattini Commercial Litigation team to find out more.