Recent Work

Franchising

  • Acting for various retail and mobile franchisors with operations in all Australian states including preparing and issuing compliant documentation, handling franchise transfers, acting in disputes and intellectual property matters
  • Establishing a new franchise system for a national property tax depreciation firm
  • Acting for 17 franchisees against a in a class action against a franchisor

Business Sales and Acquisitions

  • Acting for the vendor’s of QLD’s largest privately owned records management company. The purchaser was a public company listed in New Zealand. $8 million
  • Acting for an international oil and gas equipment supplier in the sale of its Australian business. $15 million
  • Acting for the vendors of a national franchise system. $6 million
  • Acting for a purchaser of a property management business by way of share sale. $2 million
  • Acting for national traffic management company in the sale of its business. $10 million

Intellectual Property, E-Commerce and Information Technology

  • Intellectual property protection and procurement for a listed public company including the negotiation for the acquisition of a key trade mark
  • Acting for a software licensor in a cross-border intellectual property dispute
  • International trade mark applications for Australian clients in Canada, USA, New Zealand, China and the UK
  • Preparing software development and maintenance contracts for a “fly-through” property software provider supplying FKP and Mirvac
  • Acting for an online application developer in a revenue sharing agreement with Drive.com.au (Fairfax)

Commercial Dispute Resolution and Insolvency

  • Acting for the head office of the Australian arm of an internationally regarded not for profit organisation in a trade mark dispute
  • Acting for the Australian subsidiary of a significant international company in Supreme Court proceedings (claim exceeding $2 million)
  • Advising administrators and liquidators in complex insolvencies
  • Defending Court proceedings for a listed public company
  • Acting in complex restraint of trade proceedings
  • Acting on a large partnership dispute within a financial services firm

Business Start Up

  • Providing intellectual property, structuring and asset protection advice and documentation to a new mobile technology company with offices in Canada and Australia
  • Advising senior employees commencing new businesses on restraint of trade and related issues

Business Succession and Modern Estate Planning

  • Drafting complex buy/sell agreements interwoven with stakeholder agreements and appropriate insurances
  • Complex high net worth estate planning including international assets and multiple testamentary trusts

Commercial Agreements and Corporate Advisory

  • Acting in a capital raising transaction multiple companies with operations in Australia, Asia and the USA involving debt and equity funding, the issue of convertible notes and preparing all of the necessary documentation including loan agreements, convertible note subscription agreements, fixed and floating charges and shareholders agreements to protect the lenders and investors
  • Acting for a shipping labour hire company in its preferred supplier agreement with Coles Limited
  • Acting for an electronic payment provider to obtain instrument of relief granting exemptions from provisions of the Corporations Act
  • Acting for the responsible entity of a managed investment scheme in drafting a new Product Disclosure Statement and advising on general compliance matters

Property Development, Leasing and Rural

  • Securing large tracts of commercial and residential land for developers under put and call options for development approval applications and on sale
  • Preparing and advising on commercial and retail leases where total transaction value exceeds $1.5 million
  • Acting for developers in establishing body corporate schemes
  • Acting for developers in reconfiguring lots and small subdivisions
  • Acting in cattle stations transactions exceeding $5 million

Joint Ventures and Partnerships

  • Drafting complex partnership/JV/shareholders agreements for professional firms, start-ups, retail operators, clean energy companies, software developers and more
  • Advising on inter-related agreements for joint ventures including loans and securities, consultancy agreements and business sales or roll-ups