Corporate & M&A

Ash St. helps with M&A transactions and corporate and general commercial advice.  We are experts in:

• M&A transactions;
• Schemes of arrangement; and
• Private equity and capital raisings.

When you are buying or selling companies and businesses, we can offer:

• Transactional support;
• Legal due diligence and completion logistics; and
• Business migration services.

Our clients include public and private companies, based locally or internationally.

Projects & Finance

The Projects & Finance practice works with clients across a broad range of sectors in the corporate projects and finance related areas, advising on both debt and equity.

Areas of expertise cover:

• Infrastructure;
• Power, energy and resources projects for foreign and domestic investors;
• Mergers and Acquisitions;
• Project and corporate financing, including for family or tightly held enterprises, and
• Advising both borrowers and lenders.

The Ash St. team has extensive experience in advising corporations, financial institutions, equity and debt providers, foreign investors, and domestic and international government entities and their advisers.

IT & IP

Ash St. is able to keep you up to date and in touch with global IT trends allowing you to capitalise on opportunities.

We have experience in:

• Large outsourcing;
• Systems integration; and
• Software development projects and disputes all over the world.

We also focus on IT transactions and intellectual property advice for clients from technology suppliers through to banks, retailers, start-ups, infrastructure, and telcos.

As technology advances to the cloud, our team cuts through the complexity when it comes to negotiating IT supply agreements, disputes, content licensing, and sponsorship agreements and precedents.  More recent work has included Cyber Security protection and recovery implications in regard to Privacy Law.

Workplace Relations

Ash St.'s Workplace Relations team advises private and public sector clients on all aspects of workplace relations including:

• Employment law;
• Workplace health and safety;
• Discrimination and equal opportunity law, privacy, and
• Dispute resolution.

We regularly advise clients on complex workplace relations issues particularly in the context of mergers and acquisitions, and corporate reorganisation and restructuring.

Our expertise includes representing clients in proceedings before various tribunals and in the civil courts.

We assist our clients in identifying critical business issues and developing practical commercial and legal solutions to workplace relations issues and disputes.

Disputes & Litigation

By resolving commercial disputes and providing risk advice, Ash St. places clients in the best position to mitigate them. The goal is always to tailor solutions according to a client’s needs.

Where a dispute is already underway, we are available to provide strategic, and analytical and management support to General Counsel, the CEO or the Board through our Dispute Review and Risk Assessment service.

Areas of expertise include:

• Contractual disputes;
• Equity;
• Competition law;
• Investment and consumer law; and
• Fraud and reputation management.

We offer a variety of fee arrangements and tailor these according to the type of dispute and our client’s objectives.

Corporate Governance Advisory

The Ash St. Corporate and M&A Team can assist with all aspects of corporate governance. Their expertise includes:

• Privacy policies;
• Confidentiality agreements;
• Modern Slavery legislation compliance;
• Constituent documents including constitutions and by-laws;
• Directors’ duties;
• Corporate governance statements, matrices and policies;
• Meeting procedure and notices of meeting;
• ASIC and ASX compliance including continuous disclosure;
• D&O insurance and indemnity, insurance and access deeds;
• Compliance with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act; and
• Company secretarial services.

Our Team are also able to notarise documents.