Commercial contracts & negotiation
Agreements that support the way your business sells, buys, partners, licenses and delivers.
Explore this serviceCommercial & corporate law
Commercial law for business decisions that matter.
Senior commercial judgment, clear scope and documents you can put to work. For privately owned businesses, directors, shareholders and investors.
Principal-led advice
A defined scope and fee basis
Documentation through implementation
Our expertise
The legal work behind your next business decision.
Six connected areas of commercial and corporate law. Each begins with what your business needs to achieve and the legal decisions that stand in the way.
Ownership, governance & business structures
Clear rights, decision rules and implementation for owners, directors and key participants.
Explore this serviceBusiness transactions
Legal support for acquisitions, disposals and restructures, from readiness through implementation.
Explore this serviceCapital raising & business finance
Documents and process for private capital and transaction-linked funding.
Explore this serviceTechnology, SaaS, data & privacy
Commercial frameworks for technology products, enterprise arrangements, platforms and data.
Explore this serviceOngoing commercial counsel
Continuity across recurring legal decisions, contracts and governance matters.
Explore this serviceHow we work
Clear from the start. Practical at every stage.
We connect the legal analysis, the commercial decision and the documents needed to put that decision into effect.
Understand
We begin with the decision, the legal risk and the outcome you need.
Agree the scope
We set out the work, fee basis, stages, timing and key dependencies.
Advise & document
We connect the legal analysis with the agreements and actions required.
Support implementation
We identify what needs signing, approving or doing next, within the agreed scope.
Who we advise
For people building, running and investing in businesses.
From an important contract to an ownership change, we help SMEs and their advisers work through the legal decisions with a clear scope.
See how we can helpPrincipal-led
Commercial experience. Direct responsibility.
Your matter is scoped and supervised by the principal responsible for the advice. Cornelius Botha combines current commercial and technology work with earlier Australian and New Zealand banking, finance and transaction experience.
Meet CorneliusSenior attention. Clear scope. Documents that can be implemented.
One connected approach
Advice, drafting, negotiation and implementation are considered together. Where a matter needs specialist input, we work alongside your existing advisers or coordinate the appropriate support.
Practical preparation
Make the next conversation useful.
Practical guides to help you prepare a brief, identify the decisions ahead and agree the scope of advice.
Before you send a contract for review
A useful brief helps connect the review to the decision your business actually needs to make.
Read the guidePreparing for an ownership discussion
Bring the proposed arrangement, the existing records and the difficult decisions into one conversation.
Read the guideScoping a SaaS legal framework
Start with how the product is sold, delivered and supported, then identify the documents it needs.
Read the guideStart with the decision you need to make.
Tell us about your business, the issue and any deadline. We can then consider the right scope for your matter.