The commercial team’s focus is on the corporate, finance and financial services industries. In addition to their legal knowledge, team members have substantial experience as owners and managers of various businesses. This background brings a commercial, innovative and practical focus to the advice provided.

Clients include a wide range of participants in the finance and financial services industries such as banks, investment managers, finance companies, trustees and financial intermediaries. The practice covers advice on business sales and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, lending transactions, investment structures and strategic advice.

Our expertise includes:

• Advice on business transactions, including sales and purchases and recommending various business structures
• Strategic advice to owners and managers in the finance and financial services sectors
• Acting for finance companies and fund managers in setting up investment structures
• Preparation of prospectuses, investment statements and trust deeds
• Managing compliance with the Securities Act (including regulations and various exemption notices)
• Providing advice to financial intermediaries on compliance with various legislative requirements
• Pragmatic commercial advice on dispute resolution
• Advice on insolvency and restructuring
• Enforcement of securities and recoveries
• Dealing with government regulators on a variety of matters, in particular commercial and financial law reform and Securities Act exemptions
• Acting on contractual negotiations, especially in relation to technology matters

Members of our commercial team