History

Bransgroves Lawyers is the trading name of Bransgroves Pty Limited, an incorporated legal practice founded in 2001. For the first half of the decade Bransgroves specialised in acting on mortgage enforcements and advances for private lenders. This was during the apex of the credit boom, and construction finance and private mortgage finance were at their peak.

Over the course of the second half of the decade, as a result of Matthew Bransgrove's College of Law lectures and articles for the Law Society Journal and Australian Law Journal, the firm came to the attention of larger institutional lenders, who began to brief the firm on their complex enforcement and priority disputes.

By 2008 the firm employed 6 solicitors and 4 paralegal staff. 2008 was a milestone year with the publication of Matthew Bransgrove's textbook The Essential Guide to Mortgage Law in NSW and with the elevation of Kate Cooper, to partner. 2008 was also the year the credit market collapsed; the resultant credit squeeze drastically reduced the number of mortgage advances the firm was acting on, while causing enforcements to surge. As a result of the fallout: Bransgroves began to receive instructions from originators and aggregators in their disputes with wholesale funders as well as receiving instructions to sue valuers.

In the last four years the practice has broadened its scope to include almost every conceivable commercial dispute that can arise out of mortgage lending. This in turn, by word of mouth, has brought us clients with commercial disputes unrelated to finance. To cope with the rapid growth in 2011 Lesa Richards,  Rachael Gabrael and Georgia Fletcher were elevated to the partnership and we undertook to move from our offices in King Street, to larger premises in Elizabeth Street, overlooking Hyde Park.