Corporate

Carter Newell is a leading dynamic Queensland-based firm providing specialist legal advice to Australian and international corporate clients.

Led by Partner Cameron Jorss, the Corporate team applies an in-depth understanding of the business objectives of our corporate clients on a wide variety of corporate issues. 

Our range of services include advising on:

• Capital raising, including IPOs, rights issues, placements, share purchase plans, employee share and option plans and dividend reinvestment plans
• Hostile and friendly takeovers (both bidders and targets)
• Private business sales and acquisitions
• Directors duties and liabilities as company officers
• Policies, procedures and codes of conduct for corporate governance systems
• ASX corporate governance guidelines
• Private equity capital investments
• Financial services
• Funds management
• ASX and ASIC regulations
• Implementing corporate restructures, including by way of scheme of arrangement
• Employee share and option plans, including the preparation of plan documents and advice on concessional tax treatment and ASIC prospectus relief for plans

Members of our team have worked closely with boards, key decision makers and senior management of companies on major corporate transactions; a number have in-house experience providing them with a first-hand appreciation of a large corporation’s operational challenges.