SBA offers expert legal services and intelligent outcomes in the following areas:

Corporate:

• capital raisings, including IPOs, rights issues and placements (including managing disclosure and liability issues in connection with capital raisings);
• corporate restructures, share buy-backs;
• shareholders agreements;
• join venture contracts;
• executive services agreements;
• dealing with regulators (ASIC and ASX);
• corporate governance, directors duties and continuous disclosure obligations.

Intellectual Property:

• commercializing intellectual property rights, including copyright, patents, trade marks, designs, domain names, know-how, confidential information and trade secrets;
• securing IP rights, such as buying and selling intellectual property rights, structuring licensing strategies, negotiating and drafting contracts;
• brand protection, such as trade mark registration in Australia and overseas;
• enforcing intellectual property rights, by detecting and preventing infringements of rights and using alternative dispute resolution methods and commercial litigation.

Commercial:

• sale and purchase of businesses;
• due diligence;
• manufacturing and distribution agreements;
• reseller agreements;
• technology (including software) development agreements;
• consultancy agreements;
• confidentiality agreements;
• loans and mortgages;
• guarantees and indemnities;
• franchise agreements.

Property:

• leases (commercial and retail);
• sale and purchase;
• easements and subdivision.

Commercial Dispute Resolution including Commercial Litigation