Debt recovery

Our dispute resolution team has a wealth of experience acting for clients to recover and defend actions for outstanding debts.

Our area of expertise

We offer assistance at all stages of the debt recovery process. We have worked with a number of debt recovery agencies and know the options, processes, and strategies for enforcing or defending actions in debt recovery.

Work that we regularly carry out includes:

Providing legal advice on options for pursuing a debt
Letters of demand
Statutory demands
Obtaining judgment through standard and summary judgment proceedings brought in the District Court and High Court
Bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings
Enforcing judgments including, financial assessment hearings, charging orders, sale orders
Advice on international enforcement of judgments and overseas debtors
Mortgagee sales
Negotiating settlements
Advice to collection agencies and lenders on recovery of assigned and purchased debt
Assisting with applications brought in the Disputes Tribunal

We also assist councils throughout the country in proceedings for the recovery of unpaid rates. We can assist in obtaining judgment, through to forced sales under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002