Corporate & Commercial

Need help with agreements or contracts?

 

Whether you are setting up a new business or want to expand or sell an existing one, Millens has the experience and expertise to help you take your business to the next level.

There are business structures, agreements, contracts, rules, and regulations all over the place. We can clear the air and help you clear your mind so you can relax, knowing all the legal things have been expertly taken care of, letting you get on with running your business.

Millens can:

  • Prepare a wide variety of commercial agreements, e.g. for partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers

  • Guide you through strategic planning and business structuring

  • Advise you on asset protection and risk management strategies

  • Advise you on IP and brand identification and protection

  • Advise you on IP commercialisation and development

  • Advise you on financial and various security transactions

  • Prepare a wide variety of financial agreements, e.g. guarantees, loan agreements, securities such as mortgages and charges

  • Advise you on directors’ duties and responsibilities under the Corporations Act

  • Advise you on mergers, acquisitions, and sales

  • Advise you on maximising value and preparing your business for sale

  • Prepare and review your business sale agreements

  • Negotiate appropriate warranties and conditions for you

  • Advise you on restraints, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements

  • Conduct and advise you on due diligence

  • Tell you whether a contract exists and advise on its provisions

  • Review complex contracts and tell you what they mean, in simple terms

  • Advise you on contract breaches and the remedies available to you

  • Draft and review standard contracts, such as standard terms and conditions of sale

  • Help you in negotiations by advising you on the key areas of importance and risk

  • Help you to develop strategies to achieve successful negotiation outcomes

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Frequently asked questions

  • Our skilled lawyers have well over 120 years of combined legal experience. We’ve seen most issues and problems that can occur. We work with our clients and their other professional advisors to produce practical and commercial solutions. Our lawyers have run major law firms, worked in-house and been on the Boards of various businesses. We are highly valued by our existing clients, not only for our sound legal advice but also for our astute business acumen and strategic knowledge.

  • Using our broad experience and depth of knowledge, Millens can identify the key areas of risk and reward for your business. We recommend strategies and/or documents and contracts to manage risks and maximise your rewards. Our no-nonsense advice can be clearly understood and implemented – no ten page letters without an action plan. One of our clients says: “Of all the money we spent this year the dollars spent with Millens gave us the best value.”