ANZARUT & Partners Lawyers

Corporate law is the core of Anzarut & Partners’ work. Our strengths lie in our commercial acumen and responsive service which is reflected in our track record (see testimonials). We advise on all aspects of general corporate law providing expert and practical advice to business clients across a broad range of industry sectors.

Some of the most common areas on which we advise are:

• Agency and distributorship
• Supply of goods/services
• Franchising
• Joint ventures
• Terms and conditions of sale

We prepare our contracts in plain English while focusing on the key commercial and legal issues.

We provide general corporate advice on a diverse range of issues relevant to businesses including:

• Company formation and structuring
• Company secretarial issues
• Shareholder agreements
• Corporate restructures

Our capital raising experience ranges from prospectus issues, ASX listings through to private equity fundraising.
We advise on:

• Seed capital for start up companies
• Development and expansion capital
• Refinancings and restructurings
• Management buyouts
• Traditional borrowing mechanisms
• Initial Public Offerings

We advise boards, committees and both executive and non-executive directors in relation to a number of day-to-day business and corporate governance issues, including:

• Directors' duties and liabilities
• Remuneration
• Discrimination
• Recruitment

We provide practical and commercially aware advice in relation to software licences, software development agreements and other arrangements. We also assist businesses who are investing in new technology and software to ensure that their objectives are achieved, while protecting their interests and minimising risk.
We advise on:

• Ownership and exploitation of intellectual property
• Legal protection for brands, business models and other intellectual property
• Technology licensing, software and website development and support contracts
• Legal compliance audits of websites
• Terms of trade, including online terms
• Sponsorship and advertising agreements
• Online legal issues such as domain name disputes

We provide legal, corporate advisory and intellectual property advice to a variety of clients in the healthcare industry, including not-for-profits, hospitals and research organisations and operators in the medical aesthetics field. Our expertise and understanding of the issues facing the health sector enable us to provide clear and insightful advice to our clients.

Our areas of work include:

• Corporate advice and commercial agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures
• Intellectual property and information technology issues
• Employment agreements and policies
• Privacy and confidentiality agreements
• Fund raising, including establishment of foundations
• Drafting and reviewing leases and licences

Anzarut & Partners’ staff have worked for competition regulators before entering private practice and therefore have extensive experience in all aspects of competition law (antitrust) and regulatory enforcement. This allows us to provide practical and strategic legal advice aimed at assisting our clients to achieve their commercial goals, while minimising regulatory risk.
The services we offer include:

• Assisting clients to respond to Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigations
• Advising on access to essential facilities and on economic regulatory issues
• Obtaining ACCC clearance for acquisitions
• Authorisation of potentially anti-competitive conduct
• Product liability advices and assistance with product recalls
• Compliance and compliance training.