Corporate & Commercial
Headstart Legal provides expert guidance in Business and Commercial Law to support your company’s growth and compliance. Our services include contract drafting, dispute resolution, corporate structuring, and more, ensuring your business operates smoothly and efficiently. Partner with us for strategic, reliable legal solutions.
Headstart Legal specialises in providing tailored, pragmatic advice to our clients across all major areas of corporate and commercial law. Working with a wide range of corporate and commercial organisations, we devise strategies that mitigate risk and future conflicts, while furthering clients’ interests at every opportunity.
Our experienced team assists clients ranging from individuals to large private businesses. We provide ongoing advice to financial organisations, SMEs, owner-managed businesses and other entity types.
Our service philosophy centres around developing a deep, nuanced understanding of our clients’ business and their strategic and operational objectives. We then deliver specifically crafted, practical results which protect and enhance our clients’ interests.
In a business environment marked by a focus on risk management and an ever-greater emphasis on compliance and governance, we specialise in compliance as an area of focus, helping equip our clients with best-in-class compliance frameworks and policies. We help our clients develop a culture of compliance to protect their organisation and people, while finding the appropriate balance vis-a-vis commerciality.
We assist clients in all aspects of the corporate lifecycle, including but not limited to the following:
Corporate structures and advice
Advising clients on the most appropriate structures for their entities, accounting for the size and type of venture and its objectives.
Company incorporation
Assisting companies throughout the registration process, including ACN, ABN, GST, setup, trademark searches and all other related matters.
Deeds and Agreements
Drafting deeds and agreements to ensure they reflect the relationship between relevant parties.
Franchising
Drafting and reviewing franchise and disclosure documents and associated advice to franchisees and franchisors at every step in the franchise relationship.
Shareholder, joint venture and partnership agreements
Creating or reviewing shareholder, JV and partnership agreements with specific regards to the interests of our clients.
Licensing and other Agreements
Drafting and reviewing a range of other commercial agreements including licensing, distribution, supply and service agreements.
Trust structures and advice
Establishing trust structures to optimise clients’ tax exposures while structuring assets to preserve their wealth.
Corporate Governance
Developing best practice corporate governance approaches to help individuals and organisations meet their legal obligations to a range of stakeholders, including regulators, shareholders, partners and employees.
Succession Planning
Advising clients in the development of succession plans for their businesses across a range of areas, including asset protection, insurance, financing and business owner agreements.
Digital, privacy and usage policies
Providing businesses and individuals with tailored legal documents including Privacy Policies, Terms of Use and Terms and Conditions for use in digital and physical contexts.
Seed and start-up businesses
Assisting start-ups and entrepreneurs throughout the start-up lifecycle, including set up and structuring, Employee Share plans, drafting all legal documents and agreements and intellectual property matters to ensure business success.
Competition and Consumer law
Assisting clients with all their regulatory and compliance needs in relation to competition and consumer law, engaging regulators where needed and advocating for clients’ interests in relation to the ACL (where appropriate).
E-commerce
Comprehensive assistance and advice to e-commerce businesses, including all relevant website documentation, terms and conditions, compliance with payments regulations, SaaS and mobile app agreements and compliance with intellectual property law.
Restructuring & insolvency
Provision of strategic advice to insolvency practitioners, creditors, stakeholders and directors on how best to deal with a company’s financial difficulties or potential insolvency, including debt and equity restructuring, personal liability issues, managed investment scheme interests and priority disputes resulting from securities.
Ready to Discuss Your Corporate Needs?
Get in touch with our expert team to explore how we can assist with your corporate and commercial law matters. Whether you’re facing a dispute, need business structuring advice, or require compliance support, we’re here to provide tailored legal solutions.