Nova Legal provides advice and assistance on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions from inception to settlement. We advise and manage share, asset and/or business sales and acquisitions, takeovers and schemes of arrangement.

We work closely with our clients and their corporate advisory teams to structure the transaction, negotiate the commercial terms, and assist our clients with navigating the legal, strategic and commercial issues involved. We liaise with all relevant regulatory bodies in implementing the transaction, and manage the transaction in conjunction with our client and their corporate, financial and taxation advisors. Our experience includes large scale public transactions, together with smaller scale private transactions.

Our Mergers and Acquisitions services include:

• Initial structuring advice
• Transaction management and execution
• Takeover bids – strategy and defences
• Mergers by scheme of arrangement
• Share or asset sales/acquisitions
• Business sales/acquisitions
• Private equity transactions
• Cross border transactions (including liaison with in-country advisors)
• Shareholder and regulatory approvals and waivers
• Takeover panel applications
• Due diligence

Nova Legal assists explorers, miners, financiers, service providers and other participants in the exploration, mining, mineral processing and service industries.

Our experience includes hard rock mining and oil and gas projects in Australia, together with overseas jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Africa, Asia, Canada and the United States.

Our Mining and Resources services include:

• Mergers and acquisitions of mining and resource assets
• Transaction management and execution
• Due diligence and regulatory approval
• Infrastructure access and use
• Various agreements, including earn-in/farm-in agreements, option agreements, joint venture agreements, mining services agreements, offtake/commodity sale agreements, royalty agreements, mineral rights agreements, compensation agreements, access agreements and toll 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 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