COMMERCIAL ENTITIES
Over the last 20 years, FAL has advised a wide range of commercial organisations, from small start-up companies, to spin-offs and some of the world’s largest firms.
No matter the size of the organisation, we provide pragmatic, considered advice to help you deal with the legal issues that confront you on a day to day basis. We begin by developing a deep understanding of your business and your priorities, ensuring that our legal advice will help you achieve those goals.
A full-service commercial law firm, FAL has expertise in:
- Structuring entities
- Intellectual property
- Contracts and agreements
- Taxation
- Corporate governance
- Employment law
- Export controls
- Dispute resolution
- Winding up
Examples of previous work:
- Advising a leading resources company on contract negotiations, administration and IP management for their R&D both in Australia and overseas
- Establishing companies, using venture capital funds, to develop and commercialise hearing aids and devices and to develop, manufacture and sell organic compounds to the pharmaceutical industry
- Advising a major property developer regarding the establishment of an on-line business focusing on the distribution of architectural plans
- Developing a win-win commercialisation strategy for a bio-tech firm with an international partner
- Acting as the- in-house counsel for an Australian bio-tech company, which involves preparing or reviewing all agreements, collaborations, confidentiality arrangements, contracts, licensing agreements or term sheets, as well as helping them manage their extensive patent portfolio.
- Advised a start-up bio-tech company on funding agreements (state and federal); membership agreements; research project agreements, fellowship agreements and scholarship agreement; and also managed their application for tax exemption.
- Advising a client on how to respond to complaint lodged against them by a former employee, drafting the response and liaising with the EEO Commission.
For more information, contact Peter Francis or Jenni Lightowlers.
