Our Corporate and Commercial practice area is highly regarded by corporate clients, strata schemes, and community associations. When you choose Grace Lawyers, you benefit from a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering cost-effective commercial solutions in New South Wales, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.
Our practice’s agility enables us to promptly address your needs, ensuring efficient and effective service. Whether it’s advising on business transactions, contracts, or intellectual property matters, our team is here to support your success.
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Our expertise includes:
- Business and company name registrations
- Company registrations and de-registrations
- Corporate governance and compliance
- Defamation issues and advice
- Drafting and negotiation of a wide range of commercial contracts
- Due diligence
- General commercial and business advice
- Intellectual property issues and advice
- Loan documentation
- Sale and purchase of business (and assets)
- Shareholder agreements, unit trusts, joint venture arrangements, partnerships, collaborations, consortiums, and strategic alliances
- Trade practices compliance
Our results:
- Company title: Grace provided comprehensive legal support for subdividing a company title development into a strata scheme. This included advising on constitutional requirements, drafting amendments, managing meetings, tax advice on transfers, preparing sale documents, negotiating with lenders, securing town planning approvals, and finalising registration documents for legal registration.
- Acting for sellers and purchasers of building management rights: Grace handled transactions for buyers and sellers of onsite management rights in various developments, including a multistorey Sydney CBD complex with a hotel, residences, and retail stores. This involved contract preparation, negotiation, and finalisation for a 20-year management agreement, detailing complex management and service provisions.
- Strata management company: Grace represented a strata management company against a tenant seeking $100,000 in damages, aided by a solicitor landlord. The tenant’s unfounded human rights claims in the Federal Court aimed to discredit the executive committee and managing agent. Grace’s strategic requests for particulars led to mediation and a settlement involving a nominal payment to avoid escalating legal costs.
- Strata managing agent: Grace represented an owners corporation in a professional indemnity dispute regarding its strata managing agent’s insurer. The issue centered on whether the agent could seek indemnity for issuing a defective certificate, exceeding authority. Following legal arguments referencing Laresu Pty Ltd v Clark [2010] NSWCA 180, the insurer dropped its claim.