As part of the Dynamic Business "Let's Talk" series, Sierra Legal Senior Associate Troy Mossley shares his thoughts on pivoting and adapting business due to coronavirus…

Integrated development environments (IDEs) have long been used by computer programmers as a way to improve efficiencies, reduce mistakes, and standardize outputs. In the latest release of the MIT Computational Law Report, Michael Jeffery provides an overview of the ways that IDEs could improve the...

The Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020 (Act) is now law. The Act includes temporary amendments (which started on 25 March 2020 and will continue for a period of 6 months from that date) to the Corporations Act and Bankruptcy Act to assist businesses and individuals navigate...

In line with ASIC’s approach to refocus its regulatory efforts on challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, ASIC is helping listed companies raise capital quickly by giving temporary relief to enable certain ‘low doc’ offers (including rights offers, placements and share purchase plans) to be...

To all of our clients, colleagues, friends, supporters, referrers, contacts and members of the broader Australian business community, in the coming weeks and months, Sierra Legal is here to assist in any way that we can.

As the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the globe, many Australian businesses are experiencing unprecedented levels of disruption. This is due in large part to measures introduced by Australian and foreign governments to control the spread of the Coronavirus, including travel bans, geographic...

Would your corporate group benefit from lodging one set of accounts with ASIC? Certain wholly-owned companies may be relieved from the requirement to prepare and lodge audited financial statements under the Corporations Act, where they enter into a deed of cross guarantee with their parent entity,...

As many of you already know, at Sierra Legal, we have a small team of lawyers split between Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Staff sometimes choose to work from our CBD offices, but most staff predominantly work from home offices. As more and more businesses face the prospect of temporarily...

We recently sat down with James Nickless, General Counsel at The MaxSoft Group. James, having previously been a Partner at 2 national law firms specialising in body corporate and strata law, has been General Counsel at MaxSoft for 2.5 years. James shares his thoughts on the biggest lessons he has...

As part of the Dynamic Business "Let's Talk" series, Sierra Legal Senior Associate Kenneth Gitahi shares his thoughts on going public!

When Craig Sanford established Sierra Legal in March 2010, what he had in mind was something very different to the traditional “ivory tower” law firms in the industry. He created a boutique firm that provides high quality and commercially focused legal services to its clients, using a close-knit...

As part of the Dynamic Business "Let's Talk" series, Sierra Legal Senior Associate Kenneth Gitahi shares his thoughts on raising capital - how do you know which option is best for you!

We are excited to be named as a finalist in the legal services category of the Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2020! The last 12 months have been massive for us… and 2020 is shaping up to be even better! Thanks to all of our clients, colleagues, referrers, family and friends for their...

The Australian Treasury has recently released a consultation paper on proposed enhancements to the unfair contract term protections in the Australian Consumer Law.  This consultation paper invites interested parties to provide feedback on options to enhance the unfair contract term protections for...

We recently sat down with Simon Isaacs, Founder and CEO, and Heath Fitzpatrick, COO of eBroker. eBroker is an online business finance broker that uses AI and algorithm technology to match small business owners with various non-bank business lenders. In this Q&A, Simon and Heath share their thoughts...

We are delighted to be an event partner of The Future Advisor accountants conference being held at the RACV Resort at Noosa, Queensland on 12 – 14 March 2020. The conference will be a fantastic opportunity for accountants to actively participate in open discussions centred on what accounting firms...

Some interesting commentary on the M&A sale process in the latest Mergermarket publication - “M&A Preparedness: How to plan for your next transaction”, with some of the key findings in the report supporting our previous recommendations that if you are proposing to sell your business, proper...

We’re excited to be back in 2020 (in what is our 10th year) to continue providing exceptional, commercially focused legal services to our clients in the following areas: M&A (including buying and selling companies and businesses). Shareholder transactions (including shareholder agreements and...

We are delighted to have partnered with leading eLearning business training provider, Vocam, to produce the content for a series of Australian workplace legal compliance eLearning training courses, as part of Vocam’s “Business Training-TV” platform.

Sierra Legal is very pleased to have been accepted as a member of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association.  We are looking forward to collaborating with other members and sharing our ideas for innovation in the legal sector.

We’re delighted to have Kate Save and Be Fit Food on board and thanks for the great review! “This software from Sierra Legal is a game-changer for seamlessly creating documents which you need to use regularly without all the hassles of version control, manual editing and avoidable human errors.  At...

Some interesting commentary on vendor due diligence and virtual data rooms in the latest Mergermarket publication on “Sell-side success”

To assist companies comply with their obligations with respect to whistleblower policies, ASIC have just released Regulatory Guide 270.

If your business supplies goods or services (or both goods and services) to consumers and you give a warranty against defects for those goods/services, then it’s crucial that you’re aware of some changes to the law that took effect on 9 June 2019.

We were delighted to present to the legal teams of Medibank and WEX on “Practical tips for increasing productivity and efficiency”, including a demonstration of our new document automation platform, Arreis Automation. As a business owner, in-house legal counsel or professional services firm, if you...