Our corporate team has the necessary technical expertise and experience to provide the full suite of corporate legal services. We combine this expertise and experience with a layer of commerciality to ensure that we consistently deliver solutions for our clients’ corporate requirements.
Corporate advisory
We provide strategic and administrative corporate advice to our corporate clients, including:
• capital structuring (debt and equity);
• board advisory (governance, policies, conflicts, strategy, procedures, remuneration and indemnification);
• shareholders’ agreements and joint venture agreements;
• limited partnerships;
• director’s duties;
• corporate reorganisations (including in distressed situations); and
• executive and director incentive/remuneration plans.
In particular, we also have extensive experience advising our clients on capital raisings. We have specialist knowledge of the Financial Markets Conduct Act (FMCA), including advising on product disclosure statements and the associated due diligence process, as well as advising on the relevant disclosure exemptions under the FMCA.
Commercial
We also advise on a wide range of commercial arrangements, ranging from ‘business as usual’ matters to complex, strategic projects, including:
• agency and distribution arrangements;
• supply agreements;
• franchising;
• terms of trade;
• consumer law;
• strategic alliances;
• intellectual property licensing;
• regulatory and compliance; and
• software agreements (outsourcing, development and software-as-a-service (SaaS)).