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Names and figures are changed where privilege requires it. Everything else — the shape of the problem and what actually resolved it — is exactly as it happened.
Suit to settlement in nine weeks
A supplier sued for the whole contract value. We narrowed the claim to the two disputed invoices and settled on terms the client could carry.
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A group restructured, clean
Four companies, three regulators and a shareholder who wanted out. We rebuilt the group as one holding structure without a single filing rejected.
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An estate divided without a fight
No will, six beneficiaries and a family house. Letters of administration in five months, and the family still speaking to each other.
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On the record
Other matters, in a line each
Energy
Distribution licence defended
A regulator moved to revoke on a filing technicality. We ran the appeal alongside a public-interest submission; the licence was restored with a compliance schedule the client could actually meet.
Property
Twelve acres cleared of a competing title
A stool land claim surfaced three weeks before a development loan drew down. Search, negotiation and a consent judgment inside two months, and the drawdown held.
Employment
A redundancy that did not go to the Commission
Ninety roles across two sites. We rebuilt the process, ran the consultations and the union signed off — nothing reached the National Labour Commission.
Corporate
A joint venture that survived its founders
Two families, one company and no shareholders' agreement. We wrote one late, added a deadlock mechanism, and it was used — quietly — four years later.
1,400+
Matters closed
94%
Settled before trial
38
Companies on retainer
81%
Clients who return
Retained by
Placeholder marks — a customer's own client logos drop straight in.
Testimonials
Client experiences
Merit took over a matter two other firms had already been through, read four years of correspondence in a week, and told us plainly which parts of our position would not survive. We settled a month later on better terms than we had been chasing.
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