We advise, draft, and negotiate all commercial contracts, including partnership agreements, share/asset sale agreements, licensing agreements, and NDAs. We can also draft and provide advice on internal business documents, including company constitutions.

The last few years have seen waves of disruptive technologies evolving and converging, digitisation of traditional industry sectors and an increasing need for businesses to re-think both their models and how they operate.

Businesses need to adapt and innovate to stay relevant, and the speed of change is critical to their competitiveness.

We can advise on:

• ethical data management

• managing vendor contracts and risk

• relevant regulatory and political dimensions of digital transformation strategies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotic process automation, cloud, as-a-service and other new commercial models.

We can clients navigate the full spectrum of government-related legal issues. We advise on legislative frameworks and compliance with those frameworks, and can help your organisation develop policies to those ends. We can also act on litigious matters, including comissions and inquiries.

One of our lawyers is a former Assistant Parliamentary Counsel for the Australian Government, with extensive experience drafting and interpreting legislation and advising on constitutional law.

We can assist clients navigate the policy, technological, regulatory and commercial drivers that underpin the energy transition and the energy sector more generally, as well as the risks and opportunities that arise. We advise on:

• all types of energy projects – solar, wind, pumped hydro, waste to energy, biomass, behind the meter and battery storage;

• regulatory reform and compliance;

• new energy technologies, including hydrogen;

• electricity and gas contracting, both wholesale and retail;

• electricity distribution and transmission connection agreements;

• helping clients navigating decarbonisation and decommissioning;

• all mineral sector deals, including JVs, cross-border transactions, farm-in arrangements, acquisition/divestment of assets, primary and secondary equity offerings on APAC stock exchanges, mining projects.

ESG & Gender Equality

Regulators and stakeholders are increasingly scrutinising conduct and behaviour of companies, with the effect that organisations' reputations and business relationships are at risk – from both a corporate and individual perspective. We will help clients assess and control risks with greater certainty by applying the ‘how it looks on the front page’ rule. Our approach will empower our clients to reduce risk frequency, understand risk trends and capitalise on lessons learned across the investigations and disputes landscape globally.

We will advise on legal and compliance risks, policies and controls, cultural risk, governance framework, root-cause issues and provide objective management plans and solutions.

Corporate Governance and Board Issues

We will provide pragmatic, tailored advice on corporate governance and Board matters. The team will work closely with client Boards, in-house lawyers, the HR and company secretariat functions, and individual Directors (in particular, board and committee Chairs) to advise them on delicate and critical corporate issues.

The pools of private capital continue to grow, reaching further into investment markets. Private capital investors are accessing broader opportunities across a range of sectors, setting the standard on ESG for investee companies, but also facing greater regulatory interest.

We can work through the full lifecycle of investing from the initial investment, related financing arrangements, founder buy-out, bolt- on acquisitions, portfolio company management, ongoing governance, regulatory compliance, employment issues and data ownership/security, through to exit.

New companies are reimagining the delivery of services across the healthcare sector. They are attempting to redress the forever growing gap between demand and supply through exciting, and much needed, digital transformation initiatives.

We can work with this new crop of innovators to navigate the complex legal issues that dominate the healthcare sector such as:

• privacy

• regulatory compliance

• data use

• software development/licensing and data protection, including developing new data insight offerings and cloud solutions.