Corporate and Commercial Law
Achieving successful commercial objectives, requires not only excellent legal and commercial advice; it’s also about understanding our clients’ businesses, industries and their expectations.
Porto Grace and Drew Lawyers can transform complexity into clarity. We are a firm who can be depended upon to shoulder responsibility, anticipate and manage risks and develop solutions.
Our corporate and Commercial team acts for companies, individuals and investors on a range of strategic legal issues for their expansion and investment strategies.
Our Expertise
Contracts
- Preparation of shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements
- Distribution, agency and other trade agreements
- Purchase and Sale of Business
- Advice in a wide range of Commercial Contracts
- Terms and Conditions of Trade
- Customer Credit Applications
- Privacy and data protection
Finance
- Loans and Securities
- Finance or operating leases
- Charges and Mortgages
Intellectual Property
- Trade mark registration (including international trade marks)
- Trade mark opposition
- Licences, assignments and sale of Intellectual Property
- General Intellectual Property Advice
Franchising
- Dispute resolution and litigation
- Franchise system development and structuring
- Franchise document preparation
- Trade practices and compliance issues
- Trade marks, copyright, design, patent and protection
- Leasing and licensing agreements
- Taxation issues – capital gains, stamp duty, payroll tax
Corporate and Corporate Governance
- Advising corporations ( both public and private) in relation to ASIC and Corporations Act requirements
- Advice on Directors’ Duties
- Financial services regulation
- Incorporation of companies
- Liabilities and rights of indemnity
- Allotment of share capital
- Appointment and resignation of Directors
ASX Listing Rules
- Capital Raisings
- Shareholder agreements
- Licensing arrangements
- Share sales and purchasing
- Joint ventures
- Insolvency Advice
Trade Practices
- Advice on Trade Practice Act
- Business and Trade Structuring
- Trade Practices compliance program
- Product liability and recalls