corporate advisory and tax

The corporate advisory and tax team at gadens melbourne has a proven track record of providing a range of specialised corporate legal services and business advice to clients from diverse industries in the private and public sectors.

In today's fast moving and heavily regulated market place, expert legal advice and reliable support in business are essential. Our responsive, experienced team of lawyers are focussed on delivering clear, commercial solutions for our clients to protect against risk and to meet their corporate and business objectives, including tax and revenue requirements.

experience

We have widespread experience across a broad range of corporate issues including but not limited to:

business sale and acquisition; commercial contracts; capital markets; compliance and corporate governance; corporate and commercial transactions; corporate governance; due diligence; energy and resources projects; employee incentive schemes; franchising; intellectual property; joint ventures; partnerships and business alliances; managed investments / funds management; mergers; acquisitions and company takeovers; private equity; start ups and new ventures; statutory interpretation; structured; leveraged and project financing; tax and stamp duty; terms and conditions of trade, and trademarks

We regularly act for small and medium sized business as well as some of Australia’s major listed and unlisted public companies, government bodies and large private company groups.

Our clients have included:

• Turi Foods Limited - acquisition of Victorian business and assets of Barrter Group;
• Outotec Pty Ltd - recent takeover of listed company Ausmelt;
• Guangdong Foreign Trade Group - significant investment in Kagara Limited (ASX listed);
• Victoria Fresh Markets Group - dealings with its joint venturer Mirvac, and the Victorian State Government, in relation to the Melbourne Wholesale Market’s relocation project;
• Synergy Metals Ltd - Investment into the company by Chinese State-owned Enterprise;
• Kathmandu Holdings - in relation to the Executive Performance Rights Scheme;
• Centro Retail Limited - $1 billion capital raising; and
• Sandhurst Trustees – refinancing, restructuring and asset disposals under Commercial Mortgage Backed Security (CMBS) programs worth $900 million and $300 million. 

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