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 BUSINESS SALES & COMMERCIAL LAW

Business Purchase or Business Sale

 

If you’re considering buying or selling a business, you will want the right legal team to support you through that process.  As Australian businesses are growing in reputation around the world, we are witnessing increased interest from US and the UK investors in the Australian companies. Domestic interest is at an all time high and we are seeing sales go through at rapid rates and higher than ever prices. 

 

In a business sale or purchase, you’ll want a lawyer who is an expert at what they do.  Who can draft commercially sound business sale contracts that protect your interests and entitlements. Our highly skilled lawyers have all worked for the top tier corporate law firms and have the skills and confidence to negotiate expertly on your behalf, regardless of the size of your transaction.

 

When acting for client in a Business Purchase or a Business Sale, we typically provide the following services to our clients:
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  • Acting for sellers and buyers of businesses from multiples industries, whether the sale involves a business sale, an asset sale or a share sale

  • Drafting or reviewing sale and purchase contracts or business sale agreements

  • Undertaking due diligence for either the buyer or the seller

  • Advising on potential sale structure, including earn-outs provisions

  • Considering the suitability of your existing contract suite, including material contracts and supply agreements

  • Reviewing, advising on and negotiating retail and commercial leases

  • Considering business encumbrances and how to ensure you obtain clear title

  • the transfer of intellectual property including trademarks and business names

  • Drafting, reviewing, advising on and negotiating vendor finance documents such as loan agreements, general security agreements and mortgages

  • Considering your employment agreements and advising on transfer of employment obligations

  • Reviewing and advising on finance documents from lenders or investors

  • Drafting, reviewing and advising on documents related to the business such as employment agreements, trading terms and conditions, privacy policies and website terms and conditions

  • Providing advice on transfer and stamp duties

  • Post completion activities

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General Commercial

We bring to the table over 15 years of legal experience working for Australia’s top-tier law firms and top 50 ASX companies, to the benefit of our commercial clients.

 

As an emerging Australian business you can leverage off our highly qualified and experienced lawyers at a fraction of the rates that your peers might pay for top tier services.

 

We offer the below general commercial services and our exciting GM Membership Program. The GM Membership Program enables your business to virtually engage an in-house lawyer for a fixed monthly fee, with prices by negotiation depending on how many hours support your business requires per month. Get in touch today and we can put together a GM Membership Program package that best suits your needs. 

  • Competition and Consumer Act advice (consumer warranties, product liability and compliance)

  • Document review and drafting (supply and services agreements, terms and conditions, membership agreements, commercial contractual, large asset procurements – planes, heavy vehicles, locomotives)

  • Buy-side contracting and negotiation of terms and conditions

  • Compliance services: for example, Modern Slavery, Heavy Vehicle, Work Health and Safety, Whistle-blower, and data breach

  • Privacy, personal information requests and IP

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GM Membership Program - In House Legal Services

  • We offer In-house legal services (whatever your organisation needs)

  • We can offer a true in-house counsel alternative at any level of support - from organisations with no in-house counsel to virtual support for existing in-house counsels

  • This offering is a genuine alternative model  to the provision of secondee lawyers or placement lawyers.

  • We offer a fixed, monthly cost solution which you set, not us.  We can cater to almost any budget, from as little as 10 hours a month to a full time solution.

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