Practice Areas

As a team of commercial lawyers and corporate lawyers, Trusted Professional Advisors Pty Ltd (TPA) provides operational and transactional legal advice and legal services in three main focus areas and associated sub-practice areas.

Underscoring all the services delivered by our team of commercial lawyers is our aim to help clients grow their businesses and achieve greater shareholder value.

Overview of Practice Areas

Here are brief descriptions of how TPA commercial lawyers and corporate lawyers assist clients in our three focus areas – General Corporate and Commercial, Employee Share Schemes and Internal Buyouts, and Major Corporate Transactions:

General Corporate and Commercial

  • Affiliate and resale marketing programs – our commercial lawyers assist clients design, implement and manage affiliate, reseller and similar marketing programs.
  • Franchising and licensing – we assist companies franchise their businesses and/or licence their products and services. We help plan, design, structure, implement and manage appropriate franchise systems and licensing programs.
  • Competition and consumer protection – we assist clients comply with the applicable competition and consumer protection laws.
  • Commercial contracting – our contract lawyers design, draft, review and negotiate tender proposals, outsourcing agreements, information technology (IT) agreements, procurement agreements, services agreements, sales agreements, joint venture agreements, asset purchase and sale agreements, retail leases, customer terms and conditions, and a variety of other kinds of contracts.
  • Corporate governance and company secretarial – our corporate lawyers assist company boards comply with their corporate governance obligations, and can also perform various company secretarial duties.
  • Technology– our commercial lawyers assist companies protect andcommercialise their technologies, helping them design and implement appropriate commercialisation strategies and business structures, protect their intellectual property, and prepare and negotiate any necessary licensing or other agreements
  • Regulatory compliance – our corporate lawyers assist companies comply with the various laws and regulations applying to their business.

Employee Share Schemes and Internal Buyouts

  • Employee share schemes – we help clients assess the value and viability of implementing an employee share scheme – based on their particular corporate and shareholder objectives. We then help design, develop, implement and/or manage the scheme, depending on whether the client wants us to provide a ‘complete’ or partial solution.
  • Internal (management / employee buyouts) – our corporate lawyers help management and/or employee teams plan, structure, strategize, negotiate and complete corporate buyouts.

Major Corporate Transactions

  • Activist investing – our corporate lawyers assist activist shareholders plan and implement strategies to increase the value of their shareholding in a given company, including negotiating with management and obtaining board representation.
  • Angel investing – we assist angel investors plan, structure, negotiate and complete investments in investee companies.
  • Debt financing – we assist clients structure, negotiate and restructure loans and other credit facilities.
  • Mergers, acquisitions and divestments – our corporate lawyers help clients plan, structure, strategize, negotiate and complete corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
  • Private equity – we assist private equity investors plan, structure, strategize, negotiate and complete leveraged or unleveraged buyouts of targeted companies.
  • Venture capital – we act for either venture capital investors or investee companies, helping them plan, structure, strategize, negotiate and complete equity and/or debt investments.
  • Recapitalisations – we assist companies obtain financing, increase shareholder value and achieve liquidity events for their owners, by planning, structuring and overseeing a recapitalisation of their companies.

Contact Us To Find Out More

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