Christian Dreyer
Special Counsel

Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Expertise
- complex commercial litigation;
- injunctive and declaratory relief;
- corporations and trusts;
- corporate and personal insolvency;
- property disputes (sales, leases, options, mortgages, caveats);
- competition and consumer disputes; and
- body corporate disputes.
Experience
- successfully representing a client against a developer in recovery of an unsecured loan pursuant to equitable mortgage, deed and guarantee;
- representing various clients in commercial separation involving application of restraints and separation of shareholder interests; • successfully representing a client in a multimillion dollar sale transaction where consent to transfer and assignment was unreasonably withheld;
- representing a developer in dispute with a body corporate regarding registration of an amended community management statement required for registration to complete;
- representing a client against a liquidator in challenging the claw back provisions in the Corporations Act to preserve the client’s perfected security interests;
- representing a tenant in obtaining declaratory orders regarding the extension of its lease pursuant the exercise of an option under the lease, the validity of which was denied by the landlord;
- acting for a trademark owner in pursuing the infringement of his trademark in another state forcing rebranding, compensation and costs;
- acting for a purchaser of a shopping centre in pursuing damages against the seller on account of misleading and deceptive conduct with regards rental income and yield;
- representing various clients in insolvency related matters ranging from bankruptcy and company winding up and associated application of insolvency legislation; and
- acting for two company directors pursuing termination payments denied under the termination provision of the Corporations Act.