Services

AREAS WHERE WE ADD VALUE

Ponte - Business Lawyers for Business provide a comprehensive range of large firm corporate and commercial legal services, including in the areas of corporate, commercial, intellectual property and technology, real property, workplace relations, commercial litigation and general counsel legal services.

Our clients span across a large diversity of industry sectors and range from wealthy business investors, professional service firms, small to medium enterprises, Australian publicly listed companies to subsidiaries of internationally recognised publicly listed companies, with operations in Victoria to throughout Australia and overseas.

Below is a listing of some of the services we provide, but if you have any questions about the areas or industries in which we provide services, please feel free to contact us. If we cannot help you in a particular area, we should be able to refer you to someone with appropriate expertise.

Business and Investment Structures

Advice and strategy
Trusts
Shareholder arrangements
Foreign Investment
Joint Ventures
Restructuring
Partnerships
Asset protection

Commercial

Advice and strategy
Product Liability
Privacy
Distribution and Merchandising arrangements
Licence arrangements
Legal audit and due diligence
Agency
Australian Competition & Consumer Law
Franchising
Personal Properties Securities Act
Consultancy
Confidential Information
Terms and conditions of trade
Construction Contracts
International Trade and Investment
Design, Manufacturing, Sourcing and Supply arrangements
Trade Practices and Compliance
Energy & Resources
Insurance and Risk
Joint Ventures and Shareholder Agreements
Financing & Securities
Guarantees & Indemnities

Corporate

Compliance
Governance
Corporate Secretariat
Meetings
Corporations Act
Listing and Business Rules
Directors Duties
Structuring

Mergers & Acquisitions

Negotiations & Strategy
Share Sale/Acquisition
Business/Asset sale/purchase
Due Diligence

Intellectual Property & Technology

Identification, Commercialisation and Protection
Infringement
Copyright
Domain Names
Designs
Confidential Information
Due Diligence
Patents
e-Commerce
Information Technology (development, licensing and acquisition)
Trade Marks
Branding
Terms & Conditions

Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Contractual Disputes in all Australian jurisdictions
Insolvency
Shareholder/Partnership disputes
Creditor Priorities
Debt Recovery

Real Property

Sale/Purchase
Leasing
Development
Mortgages and other Securities
Subdivision
Adverse Possession

Workplace Relations

Employment Agreements
OH&S
Termination and Redundancy advice
Bullying
Industrial Relations
Workplace Policies
Equal Opportunity