As part of the Dynamic Business "Let's Talk" series, Sierra Legal Special Counsel Jenny Lau shares her thoughts on the importance of 'face-to-face' networking.

The OAIC is currently consulting on draft Privacy Safeguard Guidelines for the Consumer Data Right (CDR) regime (with the submission period for the draft guidelines closing on 20 November 2019). The Privacy Safeguard Guidelines will guide entities covered by the CDR regime on how to avoid acts or...

As part of the Dynamic Business “Let’s Talk” series, Sierra Legal Director Mike Jeffery shares his thoughts on “How you can successfully implement new tech”.

As part of the Dynamic Business “Let’s Talk” series, Sierra Legal Founder and Director Craig Sanford shares his thoughts on maintaining great work culture in a period of business growth - https://dynamicbusiness.com.au/featured/lets-talk-culture-2.html Sierra Legal maintains a true “team”...

Are you a business that: has contracts for multiple types of arrangements? sometimes discovers mistakes (or hangovers from previous deals) in your contracts? requires efficiency when preparing contracts? enters into commercial transactions without contracts - because you don’t have time to...

Some interesting data from Merrill Corporation on the Australian M&A market for the first half of 2019.

Customer loyalty schemes is one of the ACCC’s focus areas for 2019.  The ACCC has undertaken a review of customer loyalty schemes in Australia, released a draft report on its findings and proposed recommendations, and is inviting comments on the draft report by 3 October 2019.  Issues raised in the...

We’re delighted to have Dean Cherny and Marketing Melodies on board and thanks for the great review! “Arreis Automation used their amazing software and coding skills to automate our template supply contract.  Now, whenever my team needs to produce a supply contract for a new customer, we just open...

Sierra Legal’s new Arreis Automation system has arrived! It represents a new and exciting business arm for us, which draws on and complements our growing legal business. If you have a type of contract, letter or other document that you regularly use in your business, Arreis Automation could be for...

Over the last 10 years, one of Sierra Legal’s core service offerings has been helping clients with the development of bespoke template documents for their businesses, including contracts, company secretarial documents, engagement letters and a broad range of other legal documents. After a couple of...

ASX has recently published an updated version of ASX Listing Rules Guidance Note 9 Disclosure of Corporate Governance Practices (Guidance Note 9).  The updates to Guidance Note 9 are due to come into effect on 1 January 2020, which is the same date that the fourth edition of the Corporate...

The Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Act 2019, which implements new laws relating to rights associated to consumer data, became law in Australia on 13 August 2019. The new regime is intended to, among other things, give individuals a right to efficiently and conveniently access...

Sierra Legal is proud to have advised Medibank Private Limited on the Medibank Live Better loyalty program.

We are excited to announce that Sierra Legal has been successfully reappointed to Medibank’s panel of preferred law firms.  We were first appointed to the Medibank panel 3 years ago, and have really enjoyed assisting Medibank with a broad range of commercial legal matters.  We look forward to...

Thanks to our friends at eBroker for the opportunity to share our top legal tips when selling a business. The article can be found on the website of eBroker - https://www.ebroker.com.au/News/top-7-legal-tips-when-selling-a-business If you need any legal advice on either selling or buying a...

On 1 July 2019, new provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 and the Taxation Administration Act 1953 came into effect to improve “whistleblower” protection in Australia, including the requirement for some companies to have a whistleblower policy.

Congratulations to Chris Keay and Landscape Plus on the completion of the sale of a majority stake in Landscape Plus to Outside Ideas. It was a pleasure working with Chris and his team, and we wish the newly formed JV every success!

Thanks to VANA Ltd for the opportunity for Craig Sanford and Jenny Lau to present to your members and suppliers!

Thanks to our friends at eBroker for the opportunity to share our top legal tips when buying a business. Stay tuned for our top legal tips when selling a business. If you need any legal advice on either selling or buying a business, please get in touch with one of the Sierra Legal team...

In a post a couple of weeks ago (click here), I gave 5 tips for sellers of businesses in relation to earnouts. As most of you will know, an earnout is the right of a seller to receive additional compensation in the future if the business that was sold achieves certain financial goals after...

It was lights, camera and action for Craig Sanford at VANA, as he was interviewed by VANA’s General Manager, Brendan Tohill, in a recent "video newsletter" - see below for a snippet of the action! VANA is an important client of Sierra Legal, and we are also promoted by VANA as a preferred supplier...

Author: Craig Sanford, Director When it comes time to sell your business, a large part of the negotiations will often be around the terms of an "earnout" - that is, the right of the seller to receive additional compensation in the future if the business achieves certain financial goals after...

Sierra Legal would like to congratulate the purchaser of Allstates Vehicle Logistics Pty Ltd (also known as "Spiral Logistics"), on its recent acquisition of the company.  Allstates is a leading Australian logistics company for specialised freight, and focuses on providing transport services to the...

Sierra Legal is excited to once again be named as a finalist in the Boutique Firm of the Year award category at the 2019 Australasian Law Awards. The last 12 months have been massive for us… and 2019 is shaping up to be even better! Thanks to all of our clients, colleagues, referrers, family and...

The Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) began operating on 30 January 2012, and therefore, its 7-year anniversary fast approaches. Since the default registration period on the PPSR starts at 7 years, many security interests that were registered soon after the commencement of the PPSR for...