Commercial and Corporate Law
SBA Law has over the years striven to build a strong working relationship with their clients to provide a cost effective, high quality, practical and targeted service to meet our clients’ particular requirements.
SBA represents a wide range of commercial and corporate enterprises (both private and public). We act for clients in a diverse range of industries ranging from petroleum, manufacturing, mining, engineering, pharmaceuticals, manufacture, distribution and sale of white goods, retirement villages and large retail chains with a focus on delivering cost effective, practical advice traversing highly regulated industries.
SBA’s commercial team provides advice on:
- Directors’ Duties
- Fund Raising
- ASX Listing and Compliance
- Due Diligence
- Terms and Conditions of Trade
- Shareholders Agreements
- Unitholders Agreements
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Franchising
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporations Law Advice
- Employee Incentive Schemes
- Investment transactions
- Financial Services Compliance
- Managed Investment Schemes
- Patents, copyright, intellectual property, trademarks.
- Purchase and sale of business
Employee Incentives – Uniquely Structured
Employee Incentive Schemes have become an important feature in packaging remuneration for directors and key staff especially for listed public companies. It is a method of providing employees with opportunities for equity participation. This enables senior managers to share in the wealth created by the team of key personnel as an incentive for loyalty and performance. If properly structured, important taxation and corporate law concessions and benefits can accrue to employees. Read more
Alternative Capital Raising Initiatives
An unlisted public company recently approached us to facilitate capital raising to attract venture capital from a wide potential investor base of “Mums and Dads”. The complexity and expense associated with a prospectus to facilitate a capital raising which would have an unknown level of success was daunting. Read more
Capital Markets Advisory
Morris Landau and his commercial/corporate team have recently advised domestically-listed public companies on a range of international capital raising opportunities. Read more
Speculative proceedings before takeovers panel quashed
Morris Landau of this firm acted for a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (“the listed company”) in an application brought against it in the Takeovers Panel. The applicant was a director of the listed company. The application was made under Section 657A of the Corporations Act 2001 (“the Act”) and primarily sought to challenge the placement of a large parcel of 18 million shares. It was alleged that the placement was made without formal Board approval and that the directors had been acting in concert with a substantial shareholder in order to have the Applicant removed as a director at an upcoming Board meeting. There were other disputes including a dispute relating to beneficial ownership tracing notices issued by the applicant without Board approval. Read more