Corporate advisory & governance

Overview

In response to client concerns about the significant compliance and risk issues they and their businesses face, corporate advisory and governance is a growing area of practice. 

Increasingly, directors and company officers are taking a more proactive and considered approach to addressing complex regulatory obligations. We assist them by providing a wide range of corporate advisory services and offering support and guidance on governance issues such as board composition and governance systems, including delegations of authority and contract review processes.  

We provide a broad range of services to companies, industry associations and a range of government and semi-government bodies. Our experience includes advising on:  

• corporate governance  
• compliance with Corporations Act and Australian Stock Exchange disclosure rules  
• compliance with competition and consumer law 
• compliance with white collar crime investigations 
• customers/business partners becoming insolvent   
• directors’ and officers’ duties and liabilities 
• intellectual property protection, assignments and licensing 
• insurance policy coverage reviews 
• liquidity issues  
• responding to regulator investigations and complaints, and 
• share purchase and sale arrangements and shareholder agreements. 

We also act for directors in public examinations and in claims by liquidators.