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Corporate and Commercial

Corporate and Commercial

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Corporate and securities law regulates and impacts both daily and strategic operations of a company.

Ensuring the growth and development of a business while mitigating and managing risk and facilitating access to capital is vital. Our clients value our ability to act quickly in delivering tailored, commercially minded advice.

We have extensive experience in capital markets, securities regulations and fundraising, and have advised clients that include major ASX listed, public and private companies across a broad range of industries.

We have advised businesses that provide or require traditional and non-bank capital, and have raised start-up capital, working capital for operations and expansion, and capital for undertaking acquisitions or re-setting balance sheets.

Our team has been recognised in Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms - Australia 2027 Edition in Regional Tier 1 for Commercial Law and Metropolitan Tier 2 for Corporate Law.

Expertise

  • Takeovers and schemes of arrangement

  • Joint ventures and consortiums including formation, management and exit

  • ASX listings, IPOs and compliance

  • Rights and entitlement issues

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Due diligence and verification

  • Refinancing and capital reconstructions and reductions

  • Notices of meeting and AGM procedures

  • Capital raisings, equities and securities dealings, debentures

  • Prospectuses, offer documents and information memoranda

  • Private equity and venture capital

  • Directors and shareholders’ agreements and disputes

  • Stakeholder communications

  • Shareholder and joint venture agreements and disputes

  • Shareholder activist matters

  • Board of directors matters, including duties and corporate governance issues

  • Disputes relating to oppressive and unfair dealings by companies and shareholders

  • Issues pertaining to the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and ASIC

Related services

Competition & Consumer Law

Corporate Governance

Equity Capital Markets

Mergers and Acquisitions

Privacy & Data

Shareholder Matters

Tax & Revenue

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Megan Jongebloed

Megan Jongebloed

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Brett Cowell

Brett Cowell

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Richard Beissel

Richard Beissel

Director
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Julian Courtney-Stubbs

Julian Courtney-Stubbs

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Mayank Gupta

Mayank Gupta

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Paul Holm

Paul Holm

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Robin King

Robin King

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Anna Munro

Anna Munro

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Emma Peters

Emma Peters

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Louise Blair

Louise Blair

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Leah Cowell

Leah Cowell

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Yumin Liu

Yumin Liu

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Anna Young

Anna Young

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John Goldberg

John Goldberg

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Warwick La Hood

Warwick La Hood

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Andrew Mutton

Andrew Mutton

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Iain Rennie

Iain Rennie

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Frank Beale

Frank Beale

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Rebecca Duff

Rebecca Duff

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Helena Errey-White

Helena Errey-White

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Thomas Hill

Thomas Hill

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Emma Johnson

Emma Johnson

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Lauren Kaplan

Lauren Kaplan

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Alexandra Kenny

Alexandra Kenny

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Sandra Bejo

Sandra Bejo

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Alex Dorrington

Alex Dorrington

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Kristen Kumar

Kristen Kumar

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Dominica Lucas

Dominica Lucas

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Sylvia Mansour

Sylvia Mansour

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Zac Mizgalski

Zac Mizgalski

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Claudia Van Eckeren

Claudia Van Eckeren

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Molly Zhang

Molly Zhang

Associate