The Corporate and Commercial team provides commercially-focused expert legal advice and services. Our clients include public and private companies in a wide range of industries and sectors, not-for-profit organizations, and high net worth individuals. Consisting of partners and lawyers from a variety of backgrounds, our team includes specialists with both local and overseas legal experience.

We are a results-driven team and our pragmatic and commercial approach and consistent professionalism are highly valued by our clients. We bring to our clients a new model of legal consulting with a fresh approach to the business law, and we believe in understanding our client's industry and the multitude of factors that impact upon the way they do business.

How we can help you
Our objective is to provide high quality legal services that exceed our client's needs and expectations. Our service delivery model provides us with a unique perspective into our client's wider business issues, and enables us to deliver legal advice in the context of what works for our clients and their business. We work in tandem with our colleagues from other areas of PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide end to end advice and solutions to our client's business issues - no matter how complex they are. Our areas of expertise include:

• Sale and purchase of businesses and assets.
• Supply of goods and services - terms and conditions of trade, franchising, supply and distributorship arrangements, reseller arrangements, contracting and outsourcing.
• Commercial credit arrangements and loan and security documents.
• Sale of commercial property and leasing.
• Intellectual property - ownership, licensing and development, confidentiality agreements.
• Information technology, Internet and e-commerce law - licensing, reseller, agency, support, service, maintenance, web hosting, and software development.
• Trade practices law - misleading and deceptive conduct, consumer protection, anti-competitive and unfair market practices, product safety and liability, compliance programs and polices.
• Company formation, reconstruction, joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Foreign investment
• Due diligence
• Privacy and spam laws
• Drafting and negotiation a wide range of contracts
• General commercial advice
• Commercial dispute resolution and litigation
• Debt recovery
• group restructures
• private equity
• debt/equity financing
• corporate governance
• Corporations Act and regulatory advice