An innovative approach to commercial and employment law

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Why Hart & Co

It’s hard to find good lawyers. Hart & Co is a long-term solution for your charity or not-for-profit.

Our Experience

We act on behalf of private enterprises, charities, not-for-profits, ASX listed entities, Government departments, Local Councils, and major industry associations. We advise on a cross-section of charitable industries, including disability employment services, healthcare, housing and community services, as well as private industries.

Employment & Workplace Law

• Advising a prominent NSW sporting organisation on the termination of an underperforming executive director (who also held shares which were bought back as part of the settlement).

• Advising an ASX listed professional services business on stand-downs, salary reduction and the redundancy of staff across the business during COVID-19.

• Preparation of a unique employee share scheme (non-concessional) for the executive employees of a Victoria wide commercial construction business.

• Advising an ASX listed software company on the process of restructuring their organisation and making a substantial number of their engineering team redundant.

Commercial & Corporate Advisory

• Preparation of commercial contracts for businesses across a wide range of industries, including supply agreements, referral agreements, terms of service, credit applications and distribution agreements.

• Advising a mid-cap ASX listed company on various commercial matters including compliance with the Corporations Act and ASX disclosure and other associated listing requirements.

• Advising one of Australia’s largest e-commerce platform management firms on various commercial matters, including preparation of their template Client Services Agreement, and advising them on different ways of structuring investment and assistance with the legal requirements of their public capital raising.

Business Sales, M&A and Capital Raising

• Advising a large fintech in the strategic acquisition of a competitor (financial services business). The acquisition was structured as a merger with scrip consideration. We created a new class of redeemable preference shares in the purchasing company which we issued to the vendors (in exchange for their shares in their company). There were over 30 vendors and different categories of vendor had different conversion and redemption terms attached to their preference shares. 

• Advising the vendors of a large managed IT services company in Melbourne in the sale of their equity to an ASX listed telecom company. The transaction was structured as a share sale with both cash and scrip consideration (with the scrip being subject to lock-up conditions under a Restriction Agreement).

• Acting for the vendors in the sale of their national accounting, investment, insurance and financial advisory firm to a NASDAQ listed private equity firm under which the existing management were retained post completion. The sale included an earnout.

• Acting for the vendors of an IT infrastructure management business in the merger of their business with a PE backed national information technology company. This included review and negotiation of the Share Purchase Deed, Services Agreements, Shareholders Agreement and completion documents.

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