Commercial legal advice and outsourced general counsel

Elevate Legal gives clients a seamless legal and governance solution with the protection of dealing with a regulated law firm. With experience in fast growing companies and negotiating contracts with global partners, we also provide legal support for your business operations.

STRATEGY & CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

  • Creating business structures
  • Joint ventures
  • M&A project management
  • Sale / purchase of business or assets
  • Due Diligence

CAPITAL MARKETS

  • Helping businesses to get investment-ready
  • Fundraising & IPOs – due diligence & project management
  • Prospectuses & Information Memoranda
  • Investment & Shareholder agreements

CORPORATIONS LAW & COMPLIANCE

  • Corporations Law
  • Directors’ duties
  • ASIC compliance & filings
  • ASX Listing Rules
  • ASX announcements & continuous disclosure

COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS SUPPORT

  • Templates for commonly used contracts
  • Bespoke commercial agreements: product development, manufacturing, sales & marketing, services
  • Legal support for business operations
  • Mitigating legal risk
  • Pre-empting & resolving disputes

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  • IP commercialisation advice & structuring
  • IP due diligence & transactions
  • IP contracts: licences, assignments, joint developments
  • Collaborative Research agreements
  • Trademark searching & filing

COMPANY SECRETARIAL & GOVERNANCE

  • Board & Committee meetings
  • Maintain company registers and statutory records
  • Corporate Governance policies & procedures
  • Annual Report co-ordination
  • Annual General Meetings

Having operated in a range of industries, including senior commercial management roles, we understand business and avoid gold plating; we focus on commercial solutions and ‘right sized’ governance. We also offer a fixed scope of services for a fixed monthly fee for ongoing engagements – helping you avoid the bill shock of lawyers hourly rates.

Contact us to discuss your legal needs.

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“Elevate Legal is a trusted partner of CSIRO’s ON Program and they have helped several of our teams to successfully navigate the process of starting new companies”

David Burt, Executive Manager of Innovation at the CSIRO

“Elevate Legal has consistently delivered timely, intelligent and considered direction and legal support that has been integral to our transformation. I could not recommend Andrew and his team more highly.”

Garreth Chandler, CEO at The Evolved Group

“Andrew and Elevate’s experience was perfectly aligned with our needs. The collaborative and consultative approach was both refreshing and considerably more efficient.”

Prof Erich Kisi, CSO and Chair at MGA Thermal

“Andrew and the team at Elevate Legal have been a tremendous partner as our business has grown and the volume and complexity of our legal needs has evolved.”

Scott Robinson, Managing Director at Phillip Riley

“We’re really happy to have Andrew and Elevate Legal on our team as we embark on a really exciting period of growth.”

Scott Bocskay, Chief Executive and Managing Director at SAF Investment Management

“Andrew and the team have been a great help over the past 18 months supporting our setup and particularly helping to get good outcomes with our very large clients”

Mick Moore, Managing Director at Scalene Group

“Andrew and Elevate’s experience was perfectly aligned with our needs. The collaborative and consultative approach was both refreshing and considerably more efficient.”

Tom McKay, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Livewire

“Elevate Legal has been integral to our success. As a startup we need responsive, flexible and astute advice and services on a range of fast moving issues.”

Julian Elliott, Chief Executive Officer at Covidence

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