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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

Understanding voluntary recalls: what your business needs to know

If a business supplies a product that becomes, or may become, unsafe, it has a duty to quickly remove the risk to public safety, notify consumers and the responsible Commonwealth Minister and offer compensation publicly in accordance with Australian Consumer Law requirements.

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Does your business need to comply with consumer guarantees?

With some exceptions, whenever a consumer buys goods or services, consumer guarantees will apply. If you or your business fail to provide goods or services that meet these guarantees, you could face significant penalties.

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Not one and the same: consumer guarantees vs warranties

While consumer guarantees are automatic and cannot be taken away, warranties are additional promises that your business may choose to offer to consumers.

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