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Adelaide Hayes

Special Counsel
Listed as a rising star in both Doyles Guide and the Australasian Lawyers Awards, Adelaide is a special counsel in our corporate and commercial team with wide ranging experience in transactional and corporate advisory work such as complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, shareholder issues and agreements and business sale and share sale transactions.
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Adelaide is a special counsel in our corporate and commercial team with wide ranging experience in transactional and corporate advisory work such as complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, shareholder issues and agreements and business sale and share sale transactions.

Adelaide also regularly assists clients with matters related to trade mark registration and protection, intellectual property ownership and licensing, technology, privacy, competition and consumer laws and the establishment and operation of not-for-profit and charitable organisations (and related tax advice).

  • Solicitor – Supreme Court of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours) – Queensland University of Technology
  • Bachelor of Business – Queensland University of Technology
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice –College of Law
  • Rising Star – Australasian Lawyer 2020
  • Rising Star – Doyles Guide 2023

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.
  • Advising on whistleblower protection compliance.

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 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.
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Areas of Expertise

Corporate and commercial
Whistleblower policies and training
Not-for-profit
Competition and consumer law
Compliance and corporate governance
Intellectual property and technology
Mergers and acquisitions law

Publications

OAIC privacy guidelines for not-for-profits: essential compliance insights

Understanding how your not-for-profit handles personal information is crucial to maintaining trust and meeting legal obligations. Not-for-profits may be required to comply with the Privacy Act and practical guidance is available on how to protect personal data, manage breaches, and work with third parties to safeguard privacy and strengthen community confidence.

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Australian business owners beware: fraudulent intellectual property enforcement scams on the rise

Australian business owners and intellectual property rights holders are advised to remain vigilant amid a surge in email scams impersonating law firms.

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IP perspectives: deregistration risk arising from ‘non-use’ of a registered trade mark

‘Non-use’ of a registered trade mark can result in the trade mark being deregistered. The recent Federal Court decision of Seven Network (Operations) Limited v 7-Eleven Inc considered this issue and the use required to maintain trade mark registration.

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