Company Law

Practical Law Company Law provides up-to-date and practical know-how on the core elements of company law, including practical aspects of the formation, structure and business operations of proprietary, public and other types of companies.

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Practice notes

Practice notes
Practice notes provide you with an outline of the legal principles and practice points relevant to company law.

Standard documents and clauses

Standard documents and clauses
Standard documents provide you with up-to-date templates for company law documents, including those relating to company formation and administration, directors' duties and corporate governance.

Checklists

Checklists
Checklists ensure you have covered all relevant legal and practical considerations.

Why Practical Law Company Law?

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Run company legal affairs more efficiently with help from our network of inter-related practice notes, standard documents and checklists developed and maintained by corporate law experts.

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Rely on our team of expert legal writers to provide answers to your corporate law problems. We combine tireless legal research with our own practice experience to create and maintain our unique brand of know-how.

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Empower your team and delegate with confidence, when you know all juniors are working from resources developed by corporate law experts with practice experience.

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Execute high quality documents

Ensure your documents and deeds are executed correctly - every time. Our detailed practice notes walk you through any legal complexities and standard execution clauses speed up your workflow.

Our team

Meet our in-house team of expert legal writers who are 100% dedicated to creating and maintaining our Company Law resources.

Kate Merrifield Kate Merrifield Head of Corporate
Shan-Ree Tan Shan-Ree Tan Senior Writer
Lauren Singh Lauren Singh Senior Writer
Sheridan Pinheiro Sheridan Pinheiro Writer
Edwina Oliver Edwina Oliver Writer
Tim Perry Tim Perry Director of Practical Law AEM
Tim Perry

Tim Perry initially joined Practical Law in late 2016 as the Head of Corporate for Practical Law Australia. At that time he had more than 12 years' experience practising at leading law firms Gilbert+Tobin, DLA Piper and Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). In his time as a corporate lawyer, Tim advised on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructures, capital raisings, privatisations and other government transactions, corporate governance, directors' duties and commercial contracts.

Robert Macredie

Robert Macredie has more than 12 years practising experience at leading international law firms in Australia and the United Kingdom, including Baker & McKenzie and Herbert Smith Freehills. Robert's expertise includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment funds, restructures, capital raising, corporate governance, directors' duties and commercial contracts.

Shan-Ree Tan

Shan-Ree Tan joined Practical Law Australia after more than eight years in practice at leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin. His expertise includes leveraged private equity investments and trade sales, as well as restructures, capital raisings, fund structuring, foreign investment, state transactions, employee incentive schemes, corporate governance, commercial contracts and charities.

Kate Merrifield

Kate Merrifield joined Practical Law Australia after 10 years in practice as a corporate lawyer at leading Australian law firm Gilbert+Tobin. Kate's practice included advising clients on a range of corporate transactions and commercial matters including restructures, acquisitions and disposals of private companies, commercial contracts, corporate governance and compliance with the Corporations Act and Listing Rules.

Lauren Singh

Lauren Singh joined Practical Law from specialist corporate firm Watson Mangioni where she advised on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. Lauren's experience includes advising clients on capital raising, corporate governance (particularly for ASX listed companies), restructures and general corporate advisory matters.

Sheridan Pinheiroh

Sheridan Pinheiro joined Practical Law Australia after more than 10 years' experience working on corporate and commercial legal documents in the knowledge management team of leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. Prior to that, Sheridan practised in-house for a media group on a range of corporate and commercial matters.

"Practical Law's Company Law resources are an invaluable reference guide in running company legal affairs smoothly and efficiently, and in accordance with up-to-date industry and corporate governance practices. Our fully integrated practice notes, standard documents and checklists are kept up-to-date and deliver clear, concise, practical know-how. Our team is dedicated to helping you create time and cost efficiencies for your internal and external clients."
Tim Perry Tim Perry, Director of Practical Law AEM

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