Atty. Philip Dowling

• Corporate acquisitions - company and business acquisitions, mergers, buy outs, and joint ventures.
• Corporate governance - legal compliance, directors' duties, statutory interpretation, governance, and best practices.
• Commercial - wide range of general commercial legal services to businesses as a principal legal adviser to several large business enterprises, including commercial property transactions.
• Restructuring and privatisation - corporatisation of statutory bodies and co-operatives to public and private companies, as well as restructuring/conversion of private sector companies and businesses.
• Primary industries - acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, trade sales, co-operation, and alliance agreements. As well as a wide variety of commercial agreements/transactions ranging from grain and commodity storage and handling, shipping, export and supply agreements, share-farming, crop damage, defective/contaminated crops, and sales and purchases of large rural properties.
• Wills & estates – drafting wills (codicils, memorandum of wishes, and POA's), acting as executor in a large number of estates, completing administration of substantial and complex estates (including probate, letters of administration, and intestacies), and acting in estate litigation.

Recent experience includes:

• Acted as principle legal adviser for Austin Engineering Ltd (ASX:ANG) with work including acquisition of major US mining and engineering services business, acquisition of several substantial mining services businesses in WA, QLD, and NSW, and providing general corporate advice.

• Acting in multiple business acquisitions (by assets purchase and share purchase) of food services businesses, subsequent divestment to multi-national food services conglomerate. Philip’s acquisition experience also includes various medical practice purchases by a large radiology business, and acting in acquisitions of chain of rural merchandising stores, and other business.

• Acting in the restructuring and privatisation of several primary industry sectors and peak industry bodies including the grain, fruit and vegetable, pork, dairy and sugar cane industries.

• Advising a large developer in the acquisition and proposed 'South Park Development' comprising in 188ha site at Redland Bay for a major residential, commercial and retail development/precinct. Philip also acted for the developer of Port Hinchinbrook Resort.