Manufacturing
Chosen by manufacturers to ensure their business success
Australian manufacturers increasingly require legal advisors who understand the challenges and opportunities faced in this pivotal industry at home and abroad.
Our manufacturing clients' businesses face the prospect of exploiting new markets in an increasingly global economy, of finding skilled labour to deliver the all-important 'added value' to production processes, and of managing the risks associated with increasingly diverse operations.
Sparke Helmore advises some of Australia's - and the world's - leading manufacturers. We recognise that their issues cannot be commercially managed along ordinary legal lines.
As industry experts who have a range of specialist legal capabilities, we partner with our manufacturing clients to facilitate the effective implementation of successful business strategies.
Expertise
Our multi-disciplinary capabilities enable us to provide our manufacturing clients with the range of specialist legal advice necessary for them to thrive in an increasingly competitive and complex operating environment.
We have partnered our clients through periods of growth and consolidation, and we are acutely aware of the commercial levers affecting their future success.
Our Manufacturing industry group's services include:
- Workplace relations.
- Occupational Health & Safety.
- Workers compensation.
- Dust diseases.
- Property development.
- Construction, projects and infrastructure.
- Joint ventures.
- Commercial and contract law.
- Information technology.
- Intellectual Property.
- Outsourcing.
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution.
Experience
- Advised major Australian manufacturers in relation to the national occupational health and safety (OHS) regime, major safety prosecutions, and in prosecutions instituted by Unions.
- Acted for one of Australia's largest and most prestigious winemakers in multi-million dollar Federal Court proceedings brought against our client arising from the sale by it of its successful 'Long Flat' wine brand; and in relation to ASX good corporate governance principles.
- Acting for manufacturers including Bluescope Steel, Coles Myer and National Foods on compensation matters including strategic assistance to employers who are transitioning between state and federal schemes or to self insurance.
- Acting for a designer and manufacturer of mechanical minerals processing technology in relation to a number of business interruption claims (about $50m) involving complex mechanical engineering technical detail and leading edge legal liability claim against third parties for economic loss claims.
- Acting for Bradken Resources on the acquisition of two sites in the Hunter Valley for use and operation of an engineering business as a going concern.
- Chosen to defend cases for some of Australia's largest self-insured corporations, as well as representing and advising specialised and general insurers on dust diseases and other toxic torts, on behalf of defendant companies.
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