In an increasingly complex business environment, our Corporate and Commercial team helps Australian and multinational companies and government departments and agencies manage their businesses, people, assets and risks more efficiently.

Partner David Fischl leads our Corporate and Commercial team of lawyers.

By understanding our clients’ commercial objectives, we provide practical, timely and cost-effective advisory services. These services are enhanced by the active involvement members of our team have had in managing public and private corporations.

Many private and publicly listed companies and public sector organisations seek our advice on business critical commercial issues such as:

• interpreting and enforcing contractual rights and obligations
• identifying options to realign or simplify business structures, such as joint ventures, partnerships
  and strategic alliances
• purchasing and selling businesses and major assets
• mergers and acquisitions
• raising funds through private equity, placements and rights issues
• underwriting and venture capital
• interpreting and complying with regulatory requirements, including corporate governance
• dealing with restrictive trade practices
• securing and managing intellectual property assets
• determining exit strategies, including IPOs, restructuring, management and leveraged buyouts,
  and trade sales, and
• enabling business expansion or rationalisation.

Our experience spans industries such as banking and finance, biotechnology and information technology, education, food production, government, health, insurance, manufacturing, professional services, property, retail, building and construction, and transport.

Our Corporate and Commercial team also has significant experience in the ownership, management and commercialisation of intellectual property and technology including:

• biotechnology
• copyright
• designs
• emerging growth companies
• IT services and infrastructure procurement
• licence and distribution agreements
• marketing and distribution
• outsourcing
• patents
• procurement
• research and development
• software development
• technology joint ventures and alliances, and
• trademarks.

We are committed to delivering commercially appropriate solutions that meet each client’s unique needs. Our clients say our work is:

• ‘first rate’
• ‘reliable and thorough’
• ‘delivered in a timely manner’
• ‘good value for money’, and
• ‘focused on results’.

Highlights of our recent experience include advising:

• the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute on a $30 million infrastructure grant
• an underwriter on a complex joint underwriting of a $35 million placement
• a biotechnology company on an international collaboration and licensing arrangement
• NSW Department of Education and Training on procuring a library management system for every
  TAFE library in New South Wales
• NSW Department of Education and Training on joint venture structuring to commercialise TAFE
  technology
• a wholesaler in negotiating and providing documentation for the acquisition of farms across New South Wales and Queensland and associated grower supply agreements
• the owner of one of Australia’s largest retailers of pets and pet supplies on its expansion and
  acquisition program in Australia and New Zealand
• a technology company on its successful IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange, and
• listed and unlisted companies on debt and project financing transactions.

News and Media

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