Contracts, structures and governance for businesses that need the paperwork to hold when something goes wrong.
Buying or selling a business, from the term sheet and due diligence through to completion and the restraints that follow.
Commercial disputes in the NSW, ACT and Federal courts, resolved early where that is possible and run properly where it is not.
Your product scales digitally. Your contracts have to scale with it.
Where the law changed, what it now requires, and what a business has to do about it.
One question worked through end to end, with the provisions and the decisions it rests on.
What a judgment decided, and what follows from it for anyone in the same position.
A German desk for businesses moving between Australia and the German-speaking market.
Singapore law where it governs the contract, and the arbitral seat that carries much of the region’s work.
An emergency arbitrator can only order what the law of the arbitral seat, or the parties’ own express agreement, allows. Adopting institutional rules that offer an
WR Carpenter. A company challenging an assessment carries the burden, and attacking how the decision was reached does not discharge it.
Oracle. The treaty route for resolving double taxation and the domestic objection route run on separate time limits, and the shorter one governs.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers case. Advice is not privileged because of the letterhead it arrives on, and a mixed engagement is decided document by document.
Alcoa. How draft expert material circulates can give away the protection the company thought it had.
Both jurisdictions give a six-year period and a two-year period for statutory warranties, and they divide them on different questions. New South Wales asks how serious
There are six things you can do about an unpaid invoice and they only work in one order. This sets out what each step is actually
A defective arbitration clause is usually salvageable in Singapore. The Court of Appeal will give effect to a clear intention to arbitrate even where the clause
Retention of Title in Australia: How the PPSA Exposes German Exporters to Total Asset Loss Under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA), a retention
Arbitration Finality: Protecting Your Award from Arbitrator Overreach in Singapore Arbitration is chosen by commercial parties primarily for its promise of a final, binding resolution. However,
