Corporate Law
In today’s environment, organisations require a holistic solution to complex and challenging issues while they face increasing levels of scrutiny from many stakeholders, including regulators, shareholders, customers and the general public. This is increasingly true as entities restructure and grow, expanding to provide new products or services into new markets.
Alongside the wide range of services EY offers to its clients, EY Law can assist with a broad range of corporate legal needs. We align our services to our clients’ strategy, priorities and issues to achieve better outcomes that address the legal, financial, tax and workplace needs.
What EY Law can do for you
Our corporate team is part of a multinational legal network of more than 3,500 practitioners worldwide that provides legal advice and services in all major business areas, including corporate, commercial, employment and benefits, environmental, intellectual property, finance, and tax law. This helps us cover the range of issues that may arise in a single corporate transaction, so that you can operate with confidence across the globe and maximise today’s business opportunities.
We provide corporate legal advice to domestic and international private companies, public corporations, financial institutions, private equity funds, investors and individuals.
We are part of an Oceania and global network of legal professionals providing holistic multidisciplinary solutions, delivered in an innovative and technology enhanced way
We advise clients on a broad spectrum of matters, including:
- Planning, negotiating and executing strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), takeovers, joint ventures, and acquiror and vendor legal due diligence
- Capital raising transactions
- Corporate governance and board advisory
- Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions
- Structuring, negotiating and documenting joint ventures, partnerships and other complex commercial arrangements
- Investment by overseas persons / entities, including establishment of local entities and businesses, regulatory compliance and Overseas Investment / FIRB applications
- International expansion – corporate structuring and formation, including implementation of cross-border transfer pricing, IP strategy and tax structures
- Legal entity rationalisations and corporate reorganisations
- Infrastructure and capital projects
- General commercial contracting
- Information technology, privacy, digital and e-commerce
- Intellectual property, including structuring and inter-company licensing arrangements
- Outsourcing and co-sourcing
- Restructuring, reorganisation, liquidation and related transactions
- All areas of corporate compliance, including company secretarial matters
- Legal transformation and project management
Shareholders’ controversy, corporate governance
We provide advice on disputes, lawsuits and claims among company shareholders or company shareholders and the company. These issues can include claims and legal actions regarding resolutions of the board of directors or the general shareholders’ meeting, court-ordered dissolution and the liability of company directors.
We advise on many aspects of corporate governance, including director and officer liability.
We offer advice to listed companies, institutional investors, private equity investors, underwriters, board committees, directors and others.
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