Corporate & Commercial

In any business, finding the balance between opportunity, risk and outcome can be complicated. So our experienced team of Corporate & Commercial Lawyers cut through the complexity to provide straightforward, practical advice.

We have a long history of achieving highly favourable results for clients, large and small, in transactions ranging from the structuring and transfer of businesses to joint venture agreements, capital raisings and licensing arrangements.

Similarly, our advice on day-to-day business issues such as corporate governance, risk management, competition and consumer law matters and financing, whether critical or otherwise, is prompt and to the point, ensuring you receive the best result and maximum cost-effectiveness.

Key Services

• Acquisitions, mergers and disposals
• Australian Consumer Law
• Business structuring, transfers and succession planning
• Capital raising and IPOs
• Commercial contracts, agreements, documents and leases
• Competition and consumer law
• Consumer credit
• Corporate governance and compliance
• Credit reporting
• Directors duties, indemnities and insurance
• Dispute resolution
• Due diligence
• Employee share plans
• Financial Services Regulation (FSR) compliance
• Franchising
• Guarantees and indemnities
• Information technology, social media and internet
• Intellectual property commercialisation, management and litigation
• Joint ventures and partnerships
• Personal Property Securities
• Privacy law
• Private equity
• Private health insurance
• Risk management and asset protection
• Securities
• Shareholder and investor agreements
• Technology commercialisation
• Trade contracts (Australia and overseas)