Nova Legal provides strategic advice and transactional services on corporate advisory and general commercial business matters.

We provide this assistance to a wide range of clients, including ASX listed companies, unlisted public companies, large private companies, mining services businesses, private equity firms, trusts and partnerships. We also advise boards, individual directors, executive management, and company secretaries, as well as corporate advisers and investors.

We understand the legal and regulatory issues and work with our clients to identify their objectives in order to deliver commercially focused and effective solutions.

Our Corporate Advisory services include:

• Corporate and business structuring and restructuring
• Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule compliance – drafting notices of meetings, board minutes, shareholder minutes, continuous disclosure advice, directors’ duties and corporate governance
• Drafting and obtaining ASX waivers and ASIC relief/modifications
• Executive service agreements, consultancy agreements and non-executive director appointment documents, incentive schemes and related party transactions
• Capital management (buy-backs, capital reductions and share splits)
• Responding to ASIC and ASX enquiries and investigations
• Foreign Investment Review Board notifications and approvals

Our General Commercial services include:

• Establishment and re-structuring of new and existing businesses
• Shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements
• Due diligence for all transactions
• Commercial and retail leasing
• Distribution/supply/services/manufacture and licensing agreements

Nova Legal provides strategic advice and transactional services on corporate advisory and general commercial business matters.

We provide this assistance to a wide range of clients, including ASX listed companies, unlisted public companies, large private companies, mining services businesses, private equity firms, trusts and partnerships. We also advise boards, individual directors, executive management, and company secretaries, as well as corporate advisers and investors.

We understand the legal and regulatory issues and work with our clients to identify their objectives in order to deliver commercially focused and effective solutions.

Our Corporate Advisory services include:

• Corporate and business structuring and restructuring
• Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule compliance – drafting notices of meetings, board minutes, shareholder minutes, continuous disclosure advice, directors’ duties and corporate governance
• Drafting and obtaining ASX waivers and ASIC relief/modifications
• Executive service agreements, consultancy agreements and non-executive director appointment documents, incentive schemes and related party transactions
• Capital management (buy-backs, capital reductions and share splits)
• Responding to ASIC and ASX enquiries and investigations
• Foreign Investment Review Board notifications and approvals

Our General Commercial services include:

• Establishment and re-structuring of new and existing businesses
• Shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements
• Due diligence for all transactions
• Commercial and retail leasing
• Distribution/supply/services/manufacture and licensing agreements

Nova Legal offers a wide range of litigation and dispute resolution services.  Our litigation lawyers have the expertise and experience to resolve commercial and corporate disputes that are complex in nature, in a cost effective manner.  We focus on understanding our clients’ businesses in order to deliver tailored and commercially focused dispute resolution solutions.  Where possible, we aim to resolve disputes outside the traditional court driven litigation process.

Our Litigation and Dispute Resolution services include:

• Contractual Disputes
• Corporate Disputes
• Director/Shareholder Disputes
• Partnership and Trust Disputes
• Restraint Actions
• Oppression Actions
• Misleading and Deceptive Conduct Claims

When dealing with company solvency issues (whether we are acting for directors, creditors, debtors or insolvency practitioners), Nova Legal’s approach is to work closely with the relevant stakeholder so that commercially sensible outcomes can be achieved without the need to litigate.  Should the need arise, we have the expertise to seek intervention by the courts.

Our Insolvency, Reconstruction and Recovery services include:

• Issuing Statutory Demands
• Applications to Set Aside Statutory Demands
• Winding Up Applications
• Litigation with respect to contentious DOCAs
• Advising external controllers, including Administrators, Receivers and Liquidators
• Advising proponents regarding DOCA proposals
• Advising and preparing on a variety of documents, including DOCA, Reconstruction Deed, Notice of Meeting, Prospectus and all related reconstruction implementation documents