Corporate and Governance

We offer confidential tailored and pragmatic advice across the full spectrum of regulatory, compliance and corporate governance issues, and we specialise in preventive strategies to avert governance problems before they arise. Our expertise includes:

• Skills development and training, including board effectiveness and good decision making
• Best practice commercial, legal and ethical standards
• Crisis management and major incident responses
• Directors’ and Officers' duties and liabilities under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
• Board composition and sub-committees
• Indemnities and insurance
• Review and draft corporate constitutions
• Annual reports, AGM / EGMs and shareholder / investor relations
• Director and senior executive remuneration / incentives
• Regulatory requirements including market disclosures, corporate crime and insider trading investigations
• Global Governance advice for businesses that have cross jurisdictional presence  

We provide solutions across the full risk spectrum and lifecycle of corporate business structures:

• Corporate entities, consortia, partnerships, trusts
• Investor agreements
• Intra-group relationships
• Asset protection
• Tax structuring
• Corporate governance, regulation and risk, disclosure and reporting obligations
• Directors' duties and liabilities
• Shareholder arrangements
• Disputes

We also provide advice and solutions across a broader range of commercial matters:

• Regulatory and compliance issues under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
• Advice under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
• Contracts management  and drafting of commercial agreements