Practical Law Practice Areas

Commercial

Practical Law covers a range of topics relevant to your everyday business operations, with practice notes, standard documents and checklists to guide you on dealing with common legal issues and appropriate processes.

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Meet our Commercial experts

Alex Chernishev

Jen Collins

Senior Lawyer Writer

Jen joined Practical Law after more than 10 years' experience in private practice working at Thomson Geer Lawyers (formerly Herbert Geer Lawyers) and for in-house legal teams in varied industries including sports, travel, education and e-commerce. Jen has advised across a broad range of commercial matters, including supply of goods and services, consumer contracts, risk management, intellectual property, privacy, sponsorship and technology. Jen also has experience in workers' compensation litigation.

Philip Gledson

Joanne Dunn

Senior Lawyer Writer

Joanne is a solicitor and registered Trade Marks Attorney, with more than 15 years’ experience practising at top-tier and boutique law firms and as in-house counsel for an ASX listed entity with international operations. She has also worked for a government regulatory organisation. Joanne has experience in intellectual property and all areas of trade mark law, and commercial practice including contracts, marketing, compliance and consumer law.

Philip Gledson

Louise Sinclair

Senior Lawyer Writer

Louise joined Practical Law after more than 15 years in legal practice working in commercial and health law for both the government and in private practice including at top tier law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst). Louise is a subject matter expert on data protection and privacy laws and is a current member of the NSW Law Society’s Privacy and Data Law Committee. Louise’s expertise also includes advising across all areas of commercial and business law especially in the context of the provision of medical and health services including advising on major projects, information technology and outsourcing and goods and services contracts.

Our Commercial team has you covered

Advertising and marketing

  • General advertising and marketing
  • Social media and websites
  • Sponsorship
  • Trade promotions

Data protection and privacy

  • Data breach
  • Data protection 
  • Data retention 
  • Employee data and monitoring
  • Privacy
  • Surveillance

E-commerce

  • Domain names 
  • Online contracts 
  • Payments
  • Websites

Intellectual property

  • Assignments and licensing
  • Brand protection
  • Copyright 
  • Designs
  • Domain names
  • General IP 
  • Patents 
  • Trade marks and passing off

Contract law and boilerplate

  • Agency
  • Assignment, novation, variation and waive
  • Contract drafting, negotiation and management
  • Force majeure 
  • Formation and enforceability of contract
  • General contracts, clauses and deed
  • Indemnities and liability
  • Insurance
  • Payment and GST
  • Termination, frustration and breach
  • Unfair contract terms and compliance with other laws

Ethical trading

  • Anti-bribery and corruption 
  • ESG 
  • Modern slavery

Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality

  • Confidentiality
  • Heads of agreement
  • Trade secrets and know-how

Cybersecurity

  • Cyber threats
  • Cybersecurity and risk management
  • Security of critical infrastructure

Distribution, logistics, manufacturing and supply chains

  • Distribution
  • Logistics 
  • Manufacturing and warehousing 
  • Supply chain relationships

Execution

  • Execution

Supply of goods and services

  • Procurement and tenders 
  • Supply of goods
  • Supply of services

Technology and outsourcing

  • Agile 
  • Artificial intelligence 
  • Cloud 
  • Hardware 
  • Outsourcing
  • Software
  • Technology contracting