Commercial & Corporate
WHAT IS COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE LAW
Commercial and corporate law regulates the conduct and governance of business, trade, and commerce.
Legal advice concerning commercial and corporate law can be sought at any stage of the life cycle of a business, including:
- Formation and structuring
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Operation and management
- Succession and retirement
Commercial and corporate advice can be required in many situations, including throughout the process of formation, management, or dissolution of a company, mergers and acquisitions, or changing business structures.
HOW CAN WE ASSIST IN COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE LAW
We provide timely, strategic and pragmatic legal advice and transactional support to further your objectives across the full spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, to enable you to establish, build, develop and manage a robust and resilient business, and, where the need arises, to address internal and external disputes, bring or defend litigation, address regulatory compliance requirements, manage risk, and respond effectively to circumstances of bankruptcy and insolvency, to assist you to make important decisions about your business.
By working collaboratively with all stakeholders, including your accountants and other advisors, to ensure that your business’s structure, contracts, succession plans, and legal strategies best meet your business needs, we aim to assist you to create and maintain the foundations needed to seize and utilise all opportunities for growth and success, and to make the best possible strategic decisions to achieve your objectives.
We strive to provide solutions across all aspects of commercial agreements, including drafting and reviewing documentation, for businesses, directors, individuals, partners, and shareholders.
Areas of our work include:
- Asset protection and recovery
- Books and records
- Company incorporation, constitutions, shareholder agreements
- Director’s duties
- Drafting, reviewing, and advising on contracts
- Due diligence
- Corporate governance and Corporations Act compliance
- Franchises
- Freezing orders, search orders, and recovery of stolen funds
- Intellectual property
- Joint ventures
- Partnerships
- Sole traders
- Supply agreements and terms of trade
- Security enforcement
- Shareholder remedies
- Succession and estate planning
- Voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, liquidation, and receivership
