Commercial / Business Law
At Sukhdev & Ahmad Lawyers Pty Ltd, we offer diligent and solution-oriented legal services to meet the needs of various businesses and service providers across diverse industries. Our goal is to help businesses to navigate complex legal, regulatory, and transactional landscape. Whether you are seeking to understand applicable regulations, laws, and compliance requirements, or whether you require support and guidance to complete business transactions, we are dedicated to delivering excellence advice and strategies to help you to achieve your objectives.
We offer services in:
Whether you are entering into commercial leases, service agreements, managing supplier relationships, or formalising employment terms, we will ensure that your contracts are enforceable and that they align with your objectives by:
Drafting detailed Contracts such as:
- • Employment contracts
- • Service and consulting agreements
- • Supplier and vendor agreements
- • Partnership, shareholder, and joint venture agreements
- • Confidentiality agreements (NDAs)
Reviewing and advising on Contracts such as:
- • Crosschecking terms, identifying risks, and negotiating replacement terms
- • Ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations
- • Offering advice on rights and obligations
- • Redrafting terms and conditions to align with our goals.
Resolving Contractual Breaches:
- • Advising on breaches and enforcement of terms
- • Resolving disputes or breaches through alternative dispute resolution, such as negotiation, mediation
- • Defending or enforcing your rights through litigation
- • Seeking damages, injunctions, or other remedies.
Business sales and acquisitions involve complex processes with significant legal, financial, and operational considerations. We guide clients through various aspects of business transactions to ensure successful completion and compliance.
Services for Buyers:
- • Completing due diligence to identify risks
- • Advising on terms and conditions
- • Reviewing purchase agreements, lease transfer, assignment, and novation documents
- • Advising on shares and asset purchase
- • Advising on intellectual property and other matters relevant to a transaction
- • Advising on risks and liabilities.
Services for Sellers:
- • Structuring sales to minimise liabilities and to achieve desired results
- • Drafting agreements and disclosure statements
- • Advising on the transfer of employees, assets, and intellectual property
- • Advising on legal obligations and compliance requirements.
We provide proactive and practical advice to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory frameworks and to effectively manage various risks.
We assist with:
- • Risk identification
- • Risk assessment
- • Development of mitigation strategies
- • Establishment of risk management strategies.
We offer services to help businesses comply with other regulatory matters, including:
- • Consumer Protection: Advising on compliance with Australian Consumer Law (ACL)
- • Privacy and Data Protection: Assisting businesses to comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including drafting privacy policies and advising on the eligible data breach notification process
- • Environmental Regulations: Assisting businesses to comply with environmental obligations.
- • Workplace Health and Safety: Advising on Workplace Health and Safety to understand duties and obligations.
Service agreements are important in managing business relationships with contractors and service providers. Our services include:
Drafting of Service Agreements:
- • Drafting contractors’ and consultants’ service agreements
- • Advising on deliverables, payment structures, and termination processes
- • Negotiating terms and conditions and advising on dispute resolution processes.
We offer services to assist businesses in implementing inclusive workplace practices and to manage workplace disputes.
Our services include:
- • Drafting of employment contracts and position descriptions
- • Advising on entitlements, obligations, and workplace health and safety duties
- • Drafting of grievance procedures and various workplace policies.