Corporate & Commercial Law

Targeted commercial and strategic advice. 

Corporate law coupled with business expertise

Despite their relatively small dollar value, medium sized deals of up to $400 million are often extremely complex.  Consequently, clients seek lawyers who possess a finely-tuned mix of business acumen and sound legal expertise.  With these skills, a legal adviser is able to provide clients with cost-effective and commercially-oriented advice and solutions, swiftly and efficiently.

Creativity and innovation

Holding Redlich’s Corporate Group has been a major player in medium sized transactions for many years and possesses the skills to successfully advise clients in this space.

Our success stems from several factors:  

  • We make sure we understand our clients and their objectives, closely consulting with them on business and legal issues at every step of the deal.
  • We assemble a lean team of skilled specialists who are adept at viewing and executing the deal from the multiple perspectives required to successfully conclude the transaction.  This fosters Holding Redlich’s renowned creativity and innovation.
  • And, our partners are involved in every deal, from contact through to completion, taking care to be responsive and accessible along the way.

Holding Redlich was named as a leading firm in Melbourne in the industry and peer rated guides "The ALB Guide: Private Equity 2009" and "The ALB Guide: Mergers & Acquisitions 2009"

Across the board experience

Our Corporate Group practises across all of the major areas of law necessary to advise corporate clients, including:

  • compliance with the Corporations Act and ASX listing rules
  • mergers, acquisitions and divestments
  • restructures
  • venture capital and private equity
  • private and public fundraising and IPO’s  
  • joint ventures, partnerships and co-ownership structures (establishing and restructuring)
  • managed investment schemes
  • corporate governance
  • privacy
  • competition issues and franchising
  • employee share and option schemes
  • financial services, lending arrangements and securities
  • complex commercial agreements and long-term supply agreements

Sound industry knowledge

As a group, we have acquired in-depth knowledge of a wide range of industries in which current and past clients have been active.

They include high pressure gas transmission pipelines, oil and gas exploration, coal seam gas, bio-technology, retail, property, engineering, hospitality, listed and unlisted managed investment schemes, print and electronic media, health care, consumer electronics, IT, communications, transportation, manufacturing, mining and material handling, wines and spirits, recruitment, packaging and many others.