Adelaide Hayes

Corporate and commercial

• Advising on and settling complex mergers and acquisitions.
• Advising on corporate governance and structuring.
• Preparing and negotiating stakeholder agreements and share and business sale agreements.
• Advising on competition and consumer law issues.
• Advising on a wide range of commercial agreements.

Intellectual property

• Advising and presenting to clients on trade marks and various intellectual property law matters such as ownership of IP, licences to use and develop intellectual property and confidentiality agreements.
• Advising on and successfully registering trade marks and overcoming adverse reports issued by IP Australia.

Not for profit and charities

• Advising charities and not-for-profit organisations on a broad range of issues such as appropriate structures, eligibility for tax concessions, exemptions and deductible gift recipient (DGR) status, grants, agreements with third party organisations and fundraising compliance.
• Preparing applications for a wide array of organisations to be registered as charities with the ACNC and endorsed for tax concessions and DGR status with the ATO.
• Preparing overseas governance policies (such as anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, anti-corruption, anti-discrimination, child safety and financial risk management policies) to assist Australian charities operating overseas with their compliance requirements.
• Successfully preparing objection and review submissions to assist charities and not-for-profit organisations to appeal decisions of the ATO and the ACNC.

Privacy

• Advising on and presenting to clients across a variety of industries on privacy law compliance and cyber security.
• Advising and presenting to clients on the mandatory data breach notification scheme.

Blockchain

• Advising on the legal and regulatory implications relevant to blockchain business models and start-ups.