THRIVE

Often, our client’s come to us with a growth mindset and SGJ offers solutions to enable you to take the next step in the journey. 

Because we have shared the path with many enterprises and families, we can assist from a practical perspective and prepare for what is to come from both an advisory and supporting document perspective.

COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS 
(INCLUDING DISTRIBUTION, LICENSING & AGENCY)

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Our Corporate and Commercial team acts for an established client base of leading Australian and US public and private clients. We deliver timely, practical, innovative and commercial solutions in complex matters, cutting through to the most important issues, and then acting quickly and decisively. We have a reputation for providing strategic legal advice and solutions and are consistently involved in complex, difficult and novel matters.

Our partners are directly involved in all matters in which we act, ensuring our clients get the benefit of their market leading experience and expertise in all corporate and commercial matters.

We advise clients in a broad range of corporate and commercial areas and related regulatory regimes including:

  • Business structuring and financing

  • Capital raisings and initial public offerings

  • Commercial contracts and arrangements

  • Competition and consumer law (including all industry codes)

  • Corporate governance and compliance

  • Corporate restructures

  • Distribution, licensing and franchising

  • Equity capital markets

  • Financial services compliance

  • Foreign investment

  • Joint ventures, partnerships and consortium arrangements

  • Legal due diligence investigations and reporting

  • Managed investment schemes

  • Mergers, acquisitions, divestments and takeovers

  • Private equity

  • Shareholder, unitholder and partnership agreements

  • Structuring supply chains and channels to market

  • Venture capital investment

IP & E-COMMERCE

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Whether the context is in respect to the day to day services, operations, or a larger scale transaction, we often advise around e-commerce, technology, intellectual property and data matters whether in the context of a client’s day-to-day business operations or a larger transaction.

This includes providing advice in connection with:

  • Due diligence investigations and specialist support in transactions with a heavy focus on these areas

  • Transitional services agreements

  • E-commerce and website operations

  • Internet start-ups

  • Technology agreements of all kinds relating to the development, procurement or commercialisation of software, apps, hardware, cloud based infrastructure and services, mobile devices and IOT

  • Management, commercialisation and enforcement of IP rights including trade marks, patents, copyright, designs and confidential information

  • Reseller networks

  • Licensing, franchising and distribution

  • Collaborations, strategic alliances and joint ventures

  • Licensed product manufacturing, supply and distribution

  • Sponsorship and marketing arrangements, including celebrity endorsements

  • Social media platforms

  • Privacy

  • Commercial arrangements relating to data collection, data protection, data sharing and data analytics

  • Electronic marketing and Spam Act compliance

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS & WORKPLACE RELATIONS

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Whether it’s impartial and independent investigations into workplace issues, effective mediation of unresolved conflict between employees, assistance with claims and applications with tribunals and courts or advice on employment contracts, the specialists at SGJ have the experience, skills and qualifications to work with you to provide the most effective and practical solution.