Tony offers advisory and management services in relation to
a range of company and commercial issues:
Corporate structure and governance
Governance structures to implement business
objectives and strategies
Costs and benefits of alternative organisational
forms, including companies, cooperatives, partnerships,
trusts, and joint ventures
Constitutions and how power should be
allocated between shareholders and directors
Good processes for board and management
decision-making, including how to apply the law relating
to directors' duties to particular decisions
How to build stronger governance capacity
within an organisation
Skills and strategies at board and senior
management levels to achieve key objectives
The role of directors and shareholders
under the State-owned Enterprises Act and the Crown Research
Institutes Act
Negotiations and contracts
The strengths and weaknesses of each party
to a negotiation
Strategies and execution plans to achieve
desired outcomes
Tactics and implementation during a negotiation
Draft contracts, including requests for
proposals, offers, sale and purchase agreements, partnership
agreements, shareholder agreements, and equipment supply
contracts
How to resolve contractual disputes efficiently
Public share floats, mergers and take-overs
Options for raising equity funds and/or
expanding the business
The wider environment within which a transaction
is to take place
Strategies to execute the transaction
efficiently
Coordination of inputs from financial
advisers, lawyers, auditors, brokers, communications advisers
and other parties
Due diligence
Draft offering documents
Negotiation of commercial contracts related
to a public offering, merger or take-over
Communications strategies
Investment adviser disclosure packages
Processes for addressing any Commerce
Act issues
Industry facilitation
Options for addressing key issues that
impact on an industry as a whole or require industry-wide
agreement
Chairmanship of pan-industry processes
Intermediation with industry parties and
interest groups
