Our practice delivers superior and tailored advice on transactions and commercial matters, corporate governance and regulatory issues.
We recognise the value of understanding our client’s mandates, key objectives and business needs to deliver commercially-realistic advice. Brightstone Legal values building strong relationships with our clients to collaboratively address their business needs.
Our Service
Our team has the expertise and experience across many industries and practices and advises a broad range of corporations, no matter how big or small, young or old. From adding insight to investment decisions such as private equity transactions to managing debt transactions or expansion of capital deals, Brightstone Legal partners with our clients to leverage on their advantages and take on challenges. With a focus upon coordinated advice, we deliver legal services in the following areas. Feel free to contact us, our Commercial lawyers team is always ready to provide you with professional legal advice and dedicated services.
Due Diligence
- Transaction Review: Conduct a detailed examination and evaluation of the transaction, including all involved entities, assets and related transaction documents.
- Risk Assessment: Assess potential legal risks associated with the purchase of real estate or business assets to provide a clear understanding of any liabilities or issues.
- Negotiation Tool: Utilise the findings from the due diligence process as a powerful negotiation tool to enhance your position in the transaction.
- Decision Making: Provide comprehensive insights from the due diligence results to aid in making informed decisions on whether to proceed with the transaction or purchase.
General Business Advisory
- Business Structure: Assist you in choosing the most suitable business structure – sole trader, partnership, company or trust.
- Legal Compliance: Ensure your business complies with all relevant laws and regulations, including tax, employment law, and Australian foreign investment regime.
- Risk Management: Assess legal risks in business operations and provide effective risk management strategies and legal solutions.
- Overseas Investment: Provide legal consulting and support related to foreign investment, including investment regulatory compliance, foreign investment risk assessment, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and guide your business towards successful operation in Australia.
Legal Counsel
- Ongoing Legal Support: Offer long-term legal counsel services to promptly address legal issues in business operations and anticipate and manage legal risks.
- Strategic Planning: Provide legal advice during business strategic planning to ensure decisions are legal and compliant.
- Dispute Prevention: Help businesses prevent potential disputes by formulating effective policies and procedures.
Commercial Contracts and Business Agreements
- Drafting Contract Terms: Draft detailed contract terms and prepare relevant documents for various commercial transactions, ensuring the agreement complies with legal requirements and clearly defines the rights and obligations of all parties.
- Service Agreements: Draft and review service agreements to protect the rights and interests of both service providers and recipients.
- Agency Agreements: Draft and review agency agreements to clarify the rights and obligations between agents and principals.
- Intermediary Agreements: Draft intermediary agreements to ensure the legal protection of intermediaries’ roles and remuneration in transactions.
- Shareholders Agreements: Assist in drafting and reviewing company shareholders’ agreements to clearly define shareholders’ rights, obligations, and responsibilities, preventing potential future disputes.
- Share Purchase Agreements: Draft share purchase agreements to ensure the rights of both parties in the share transfer process are protected and comply with legislations requirements and internal procedures.
- Loan Agreements: Draft and review loan agreements to clearly define the rights and obligations of lenders and borrowers and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
- Employment Contracts: Provide drafting and review services for employment contracts to clearly define the rights and obligations of all parties in the employment relationship and prevent labour disputes.
Intellectual Property
- Trademark Registration: Assist businesses in registering trademarks to protect their brands from infringement in Australia.
- Patent Applications: Assist inventors and businesses in applying for patents to protect their technological innovations.
- Disputes and Litigation: Protect your intellectual property from infringement and ensure appropriate compensation.
Business Name Registration
- Name Selection: Assist businesses in choosing suitable names and ensure they do not conflict with existing names.
- Registration Process: Handle the registration and filing of business names to ensure they are legal and valid.
- Trademark Protection: Provide further trademark registration services to protect the brand name after business name registration.
Company Mergers and Acquisitions
- Due Diligence: Conduct thorough due diligence before company mergers and acquisitions to identify potential risks and issues.
- Merger Agreements: Draft and review merger and acquisition agreements to ensure a smooth process of transaction.
- Legal Compliance: Ensure the merger or acquisition process complies with all relevant laws and regulations to avoid legal disputes.
Business Transactions
- Business Evaluation: Assist buyers and sellers in evaluating business value and asset status to ensure fair transactions.
- Sale Contracts: Draft and review business sale contracts to ensure transaction terms are clear and legal.
- Transaction Transfers: Handle all legal matters in business transactions, including the transfer of tangible and intangible assets and contract performance.
Contract Review
- Detailed Review: Lawyers review every contract, agreement, and legal document to ensure the terms are clear, legal, and meet your purposes and requirements.
- Risk Identification: Identify potential risks in contracts and provide amendments.
- Legal Advice: Provide legal advice based on contract content to ensure your rights are protected.
Commercial Litigation
- Dispute Resolution: Represent clients in handling various commercial disputes, including contract disputes, shareholder disputes, debt disputes, etc.
- Litigation Strategy: Formulate effective litigation strategies to achieve the best results in court.
- Mediation and Arbitration: Resolve disputes through mediation and arbitration when possible to avoid lengthy and costly litigation.
- Judgment Enforcement: Assist clients in enforcing court judgments to ensure the outcomes are implemented.
Why Choose Brightstone Legal?
Our legal team has a wealth of commercial law experience, providing you with professional and efficient legal services.
We prioritise our clients’ interests and are dedicated to delivering the highest quality legal services over the long term.
We offer comprehensive commercial legal services to meet the needs of businesses at different stages of development.
By combining local market knowledge with a global perspective, we help businesses achieve success in international markets.
At Brightstone Legal, our multi-disciplinary legal team works with clients across a broad area of legal practice.
Dispute Resolution and Litigation / Real Estate /Family Law/ Notary Public/ Financial Services / Criminal and Traffic Offence/ Immigration.
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