Practical Law Practice Areas

Corporate Transactions

Get up-to-date practical know-how on the transactions companies commonly undertake as part of their business operations from asset acquisitions and joint venture arrangements to takeovers, and more.

Why Practical Law Corporate Transactions?

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Run company legal affairs more efficiently with help from our network of inter-related practice notes, standard documents and checklists developed and maintained by corporate law experts.

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Rely on our team of expert legal writers to provide answers to your company law queries. We combine tireless legal research with our own practice experience to create and maintain a unique brand of company law know-how.

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Ensure your documents and deeds are executed correctly - every time. Our detailed practice notes walk you through any legal complexities and standard execution clauses speed up your workflow.

Meet our Corporate Transactions experts

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Kate Merrifield

Head of Corporate

Kate has more than 10 years’ experience practising as a corporate lawyer at leading Australian law firm Gilbert+Tobin, where her practice included advising clients on a range of corporate transactions and commercial matters including restructures, acquisitions and disposals of private companies, commercial contracts, corporate governance and compliance with the Corporations Act and Listing Rules.

Alex Chernishev

Olwen Jaffe Cadosch

Lawyer Writer

Olwen is a qualified lawyer in the United States. Prior to joining Practical Law Australia, Olwen worked in both private practice and government. She is also an adjunct professor in legal studies at a US college.

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Tim Perry

Director of Practical Law Australia

Tim has more than 12 years' experience practising at leading law firms in Australia, including Gilbert + Tobin and DLA Piper. Tim's expertise includes advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructures, capital raisings, privatisations and other government transactions, corporate governance, directors' duties and commercial contracts.

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Sheridan Pinheiro

Senior Lawyer Writer

Sheridan joined Practical Law Australia after more than 10 years’ experience working on corporate and commercial legal documents in the Knowledge Management team of leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. Prior to that, Sheridan practised in-house for a media group on a range of corporate and commercial matters.

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Lauren Singh

Senior Lawyer Writer

Lauren joined Practical Law after having practised at Watson Mangioni and Piper Alderman. Lauren is experienced in advising clients on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and matters of general corporate governance, in particular ASX-listed companies.

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Shan-Ree Tan

Senior Lawyer Writer

Shan-Ree joined Practical Law after more than eight years in practice at leading Australian law firm Gilbert+Tobin, as well as experience at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Supreme Court of New South Wales. His expertise includes leveraged private equity investments and trade sales, as well as restructures, capital raisings, fund structuring, foreign investment, State transactions, employee incentive schemes, corporate governance, commercial contracts and charities.

Our Corporate Transactions team has you covered

Acquisitions

  • Asset acquisitions
  • Due diligence: acquisitions
  • Financial assistance
  • Foreign investment
  • Members’ schemes of arrangement
  • Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality: acquisitions
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Restraints of trade· 
  • Share acquisitions: private
  • Takeovers

Contracts

  • Execution formalities
  • General contracts and boilerplate
  • Contract law

Specialist transactions

  • Joint ventures 
  • Reductions of share capital
  • Reorganisations 
  • Share buy-backs 
  • Share schemes and incentives
  • Start-ups

Global practice areas

  • Corporate
  • Capital Markets

Equity Capital Markets

  • Disclosure documents
  • Initial public offerings
  • Issuing equity securities: public companies

Global guides

  • Capital Markets: Equity
  • Contract Formation and Enforcement
  • Private Mergers and Acquisitions