My Adelaide-based team uses a managed services model to provide clients with national and exclusive directly outsourced legal support, in agreed packaged legal areas. This frees up the in-house legal teams of clients to focus on key strategic, mission-critical matters, and gives them a national solution of consistent legal advice and policy interpretation. In addition, offering clients fixed, value-based pricing provides them with greater budget certainty, especially in complex legal areas.

Career highlights

Provided exclusive LAO direct outsourcing arrangements with Australian banks, including with regard to:

• Transaction structuring
• Trust investigations
• Lending to self-managed superannuation funds
• Managed investment scheme investigations
• Estate and testamentary trust investigations
• Reviewing legal entities that are bank customers (such as associations, co-operatives, government agencies, Indigenous bodies, joint ventures, partnerships, Religious organisations, statutory bodies and trade unions)
• General commercial contract reviews
• Power of attorney reviews
• Lease, agreement to lease and right of entry reviews
• Document preparation (such as subordination deeds and financier side deeds)
• Development finance eg building contract reviews, development agreement reviews, builder side deeds, contracts for sale and purchase, put and call options, pro-forma contract reviews and executed pre-sale contract reviews.