Corporate and Commercial Advisory

Our Corporate and Commercial Advisory team offers legal solutions tailored to our clients' sophisticated needs. We provide timely and strategic counsel on various types of corporate matters, ensuring you are equipped to navigates through the complexities of the commercial landscape with confidence and precision.

Key Services:

• Commercial agreements: Reviewing, advising, negotiating and drafting on a wide range of commercial documents that protect your interests and foster robust business relationships. Examples include shareholders/partnership agreement, employment agreement, consultant/independent contractor agreement, non-disclosure agreement/confidentiality deed, privacy statements, disclaimers, limitation of liability/indemnities, division 7A loan agreements, commercial loan agreements, corporate powers of attorney, and many more.

• Franchising matters: Franchises can offer profitable business opportunities for both franchisors and franchisees as a mutually beneficial arrangement. We provide services for both franchisors and franchisees clients across all stages of a franchise matter, including setting up new franchises, franchise and licensing documents, purchase/sale of a franchise business, and dispute resolution for franchise disputes.

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Expert guidance through every stage of M&A transactions, from due diligence, transaction structuring, negotiating and drafting relevant documents, regulatory approvals (e.g. FIRB) to post-merger integration.

• General commercial law: We deal with a number of general commercial law matters and transactions, including purchase/sale of businesses, business structuring and restructuring, trade marks, intellectual property strategies and licensing matters, trade marks, trade practice matters, and alternative dispute resolutions for commercial matters.

• Corporate advisory: We advise on regulatory compliance matters, risk management, employment practices, tech-driven innovations and implementation strategies.

Our clients come from diverse business backgrounds including professionals and consultants, manufacturers, agricultural operations, medical and allied health service providers, retailers and wholesalers, property developers, IT/software developers, family offices, charities and NGOs. 

Our private client services focus on protecting our clients' assets and developing wealth management strategies, which can be a complex process involving meticulous early planning and assessment of many different factors. 

Key Services:

• Estate Planning: reviewing, advising, and drafting simple Wills, complex Wills, testamentary Wills, powers of attorney, and deeds of family arrangement.

• Asset protection advisory and strategies, including binding financial agreements, related party loans and registrable mechanisms.

• Business succession planning: review and advise on succession planning needs, designing structuring or restructuring strategies, drafting succession documents or agreements.

• Estate administration: estate administration services such as probate or administration of deceased estate, contesting validity of Wills, contesting provisions of Wills (e.g. Part IV claims), other deceased estate disputes.