Legal and governance, end to end

Commercial and corporate

Practical legal advice for groups operating in Australia, from the documents you sign with customers and suppliers to the corporate records behind the company.

• Customer, supplier, distribution and licensing agreements
• SaaS and technology commercial terms
• Constitutions and shareholder agreements
• Board and shareholder resolutions
• Intra-group agreements and arrangements
• Employment documentation for Australian teams
• Day-to-day legal advice for the Australian business
• Commercial precedents and templates, reviewed and improved

Governance and company secretarial

The governance framework and statutory administration an Australian subsidiary needs, run with the discipline of a larger organisation and scaled to your group.

• Company secretary and public officer appointments
• Statutory registers and records
• ASIC lodgements and the annual review
• Board and committee papers and minutes
• Director appointments, resignations and onboarding
• Governance frameworks and delegations
• Reporting to the parent company
• ASIC and ATO correspondence

Cross-border structuring

The structural decisions that shape your Australian presence, made early and documented properly. We work alongside your tax advisers throughout.

• Subsidiary or branch
• Company incorporation and set-up
• Intra-group arrangements
• Restructures and changes of ownership
• Director ID and registration planning
• Foreign investment and regulatory touchpoints, with specialist input where needed

Read the set-up guide →

Australian businesses expanding overseas

Cross-border work runs both ways. We support Australian companies setting up and running entities abroad, and work alongside local counsel wherever foreign law advice is needed.

• Structuring your overseas expansion
• Overseas entity governance, managed from Sydney
• US subsidiary corporate compliance and company secretarial oversight, coordinated with US advisers
• One point of contact across the group's entities