Our Expertise

We assist Buyers and Sellers in the legal aspects of buying and selling businesses: from preparing the business for sale, to conducting legal due diligence of the Target business, to negotiating the sale / purchase.

Our expertise is in advising on transactions involving businesses that are turn over between $10m - $150m per annum. Our team have advised clients in successful M&A transactions across a broad range of industries including IT and telecommunications, media and entertainment, automotive, professional services, travel and hospitality, recruitment and childcare.

We provide end-to-end advice and project management for capital raising from angel / seed rounds and upwards. Our service includes advising on:

• Terms Sheets
• Founders' Agreements
• Shareholders' Agreements
• Directors' Deeds
• IP assignments
• Capitalisation Tables
• Corporate Governance
• Strategic Advice
• Deal Management
• Trust Account Services
• Structuring.

We advise businesses on compliance with the privacy laws, implementing privacy practices, ensuring suppliers understand their privacy obligations and training businesses in privacy compliance.

Our team have conducted privacy audits for ASX 200 companies in a range of industries including pharmaceutical, recruitment, professional services and marketing agencies.

My-Linh Dang was the first Chief Privacy Officer of the Australian Stock Exchange.

We advise on, draft and negotiate business contracts. Our vision is to provide contracts that help you run your business and minimise legal risks. We are experienced in the following business contracts:

• Business terms and conditions
• Employment contracts
• Contractor agreements
• Website terms of use
• Partnership agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Distribution agreements
• IP licences 
• IP assignments
• Software licence agreements
• Franchise agreements
• Joint venture agreements.

We advise on complex business and commercial disputes, including :

• Conducting and advising on independent workplace investigations
• Employment and WHS issues
• Partners and partnership disputes
• Joint venture disputes
• Founders and Shareholder disputes
• Restraints of trade 
• Restraint clauses
• Directors' duties.