Doing business overseas

Doing business overseas can be an effective way to grow your business, spread risk, increase productivity and reduce your dependence on the Australian market.

When you're entering new overseas markets, we work with you to support your expansion strategy – helping you to understand the country’s culture, customs, and laws, and the unspoken rules that will ultimately help you better tailor your business for that market.

We provide solutions across the full risk spectrum and the full lifecycle of entering a new overseas market:

Market and risk analysis
Export and expansion financing
WTO law, multilateral regulation, free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties
Contracts with customers, distributors, supply chain and logistics providers
Intellectual property protection
Tax structuring, BEPs, transfer pricing and tax treaties
Sanctions, export controls, trade remedies, customs and trade barrier matters
Employee and industrial relations
Anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering and other extraterritorial regulatory issues
Migration and special investor visas
Public international law, WTO dispute settlement and investor state dispute settlement
Private disputes, international arbitration and enforcement of judgements.

Our overseas networks

MinterEllison operates in every capital city in mainland Australia, as well as New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, China and the UK through a network of integrated and affiliated offices.

We also have an unrivalled global network of independent and leading law firms located in most of the world's major commercial markets. This network enable us to provide a full global and seamless reach and the best possible legal advice wherever we are needed.

Doing a Deal

Our transactional specialists have experience assisting Australian companies doing deals overseas. Our overseas offices and international networks understand foreign legal, regulatory and commercial environments and will work with you to ensure successful outcomes for growth overseas.

Read about our Doing a deal solutions.