Legal Services
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This summary provides a high-level overview of our core service offerings.
End-to-End Contract Management Lifecycle Support
We offer comprehensive legal support across all phases of your contracts and projects, from inception to completion. This includes advising on initial strategy and risk allocation, drafting and negotiating all necessary contracts, providing ongoing legal guidance during project execution, managing variations and claims, warranties and assisting with dispute resolution and project close-out. Our aim is to ensure legal robustness and smooth progression at every phase of the contract lifecycle.
Risk Audit, Assessment and Mitigation
We identify and analyse potential legal risks associated with contracts and projects and develop proactive strategies with clients to mitigate those risks throughout the contract lifecycle.
Due Diligence, Contract Formation and Contract Drafting
We expertly draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, ensuring your project and business interests are protected and clearly defined. We can provide input into the preparation of all necessary documentation including RFPs/ tenders, Memorandum of understanding, construction contracts and EPC agreements. We advise on legal structure, JV and consortium contracting to meet your business or project objectives.
Negotiation
We provide negotiation services to help clients finalise agreements favourably and promptly. If a dispute arises we secure favourable dispute resolution outcomes without resorting to costly litigation. We use our industry and legal expertise to achieve efficient, cost-effective solutions through informed advocacy.
Contract Interpretation and Advice
During all phases of a business transaction or project, we provide clear and practical advice on the interpretation of existing contracts, helping you understand your rights and obligations and navigate potential disputes and optimise outcomes. This may also include strategic advice, developing helpful templates for the business, input or drafting of day-to-day commercial contract correspondence and notices.
Dispute Resolution, Claim and Collection
We work closely with you to achieve your project objectives, reduce costs and protect against identified risks. We offer strategic advice from the outset to ensure you can manage disputes should they arise and develop claim and security of payment strategies to ensure timely payment for work performed or to effectively respond to payment claims. We build best practice processes, record keeping and training to improve your business resilience to disputes. In the event of unavoidable disputes we provide representation to achieve efficient and effective resolutions, whether through negotiation, mediation, or litigation. For constructors, we advise on security of payment legislation (such as the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (QLD)).
Compliance
We assist clients in navigating complex regulatory and approval processes to ensure business/ project compliance and timely progress.
Legal Training and Workshops
We develop and deliver tailored training programs on commercial contract law and project-related legal issues to enhance your team's understanding of relevant contract issues and compliance through the various phases of the contract lifecycle. We provide legal input into project or organisation workshops like planning, developing contracting strategies and risk identification and minimisation workgroups.