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Cooper Grace Ward

Cooper Grace Ward

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Dispute resolution: litigation

Cooper Grace Ward’s litigation group operates from Queensland and specialises in complex, high-value disputes, covering corporate, property, insolvency and professional negligence cases, among others, and acting for national and multinational clients. Rocco Russo is described as ‘a very effective operator’. The team is praised as ’very well organised and operating as a unit’, able to deliver ‘very focussed and well-structured briefs’. Miranda Klibbe is active in large-scale commercial and property litigation and is highly regarded by clients.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team was very well organized and operated as a unit. We mostly dealt with 2 people but they had others come in and out as required. Every time we spoke to any of them, they all understood the case very well.’

  • ‘I dealt mainly with Rocco Russo who was both extremely helpful and very clear on what we were doing and why. But also, Rocco had a very good handle on the technical aspects of the job and a clear understanding of the technical issues in question.’

  • ‘They provide very focussed and well-structured briefs that enables experts to use their time efficiently and prioritise time and effort on the critical issues at hand. ’

  • ‘Rocco Russo is a very effective operator with excellent business acumen and a strategic approach to managing and structuring matters to achieve positive client outcomes.’

  • ‘Value for money, in that many of their lawyers have the skills and experience of many top tier firms but their fees are more competitive. The partners and senior lawyers are approachable and hands on.’

  • ‘Very good technical skills combined with practical know-how. An eye is kept on the commerciality of the dispute at all times.’

  • ‘Cooper Grace Ward has a very well regarded litigation team in the Brisbane market and are regularly briefed on high value complex commercial matters.’

  • ‘Rocco Russo and his team have very strong individual skills and the right level of depth to be cost effective and scalable and the firm has a sufficiently strong set of allied practice areas to be commercial full-service. My experience is that the firm is genuinely competitive against the larger national firms particularly in terms of quality output.’

Key clients

  • Horizon SolSolutions Pty Ltd, trading as Cocoon SDA Homes
  • Gordon Merchant
  • Lancini Property Group
  • YFG Shopping Centres Pty Ltd
  • Newclip Technics International
  • Newclip Technics Australia Pty Ltd
  • Lakeba Group Limited
  • United Petroleum Group
  • Worrells
  • Kirsten Leigh Peever
  • New York Blower Company a
  • AirEng Pty Ltd

Work highlights

Acted for Robert Huston, administrator of an estate owning one of the largest undeveloped land blocks on the Gold Coast (valued at approximately $250 million).
Acted for Horizon SolSolutions, trading as Cocoon SDA Homes, and its related companies in a $57.5m claim in the Supreme Court of South Australia against former employees and business partners alleged to have misappropriated sensitive business information and intellectual property.
Acted for Newclip Technics International and its Australian subsidiary in proceedings concerning breaches of fiduciary duties and Corporations Act 2001 obligations against multiple defendants.
Practice head

Rocco Russo

Other key lawyers

Miranda Klibbe