Legal Teams

Optim Enterprise lawyers combine technical excellence with commercial savvy. Hailing from Australia’s top 8 law firms, they bring experience at the highest levels to the nimble and entrepreneurial delivery of legal solutions for businesses at every stage of growth. Our Enterprise group brings together corporate, commercial and IP lawyers who are as adept at guiding new ventures through formation as they are at structuring strategic contracts for growing companies. They are also ready to step into in-house roles as strategic legal advisers for fast-growing companies or skilled contractors for corporate legal departments.

Optim Corporate specialises in transaction work. Our ability to structure and execute deals helps our clients’ to balance their immediate goals with their long-term strategic objectives. We add value to our clients by providing practical advice on business matters and by structuring transactions in a manner that maximizes business, strategic and tax efficiencies.

A modern property practice needs to anticipate trends, understand the market, and react with speed and confidence. The Optim Legal Property group are experts in: commercial property law; leasing; sales, acquisitions and due diligences; and development projects. We understand that the real estate business is increasingly multifaceted, and we have successfully teamed up our top-tier property, planning, environment, corporate and litigation expertise to offer an integrated unit which is responsive to the realities of the market.

Members of our Employment team have specific expertise advising on contractors –v- employee matters, particularly in relation to payroll tax liability, and employment-related lawsuit prevention. We provide clients with prompt, clear, user-friendly advice, keeping our client’s commercial interests at the forefront of everything we do.

We advise intellectual property owners, licensees and users on existence, registration, ownership, infringement and enforcement of trade marks, designs, copyright and confidential information. We are also able to advise on patent infringement and enforcement. We have experience across a range of industries, especially consumer goods, Cleantech, online, media, IT and entertainment. Our trade marks attorney service advises and represents brand owners on all facets of trade mark management, including trade mark clearance, trade mark protection and transactions relating to brand assets.

We understand that the success of a project depends on the timely and cost efficient delivery of project milestones, meeting the expectations of the developer and satisfying obligations to lenders. Our team of lawyers have advised clients involved in some of the largest construction, engineering, energy and resources projects in Australia. Optim Projects makes this know-how accessible and cost efficient for small to medium-scale construction and engineering projects.

Our team of top-tier lawyers ‘level the playing field’ by providing quality litigation and dispute resolution services to clients at a lower cost. When resolving a dispute or conducting litigation, we understand that clients want strategic advice and tactical know-how that will help them to achieve their business objectives. Our lawyers are experienced across a range of subject areas and in the State and Federal Courts as well as a number of arbitration and dispute resolution forums.

Experience working with lawyers who offer solutions and have the freedom to be an integral part of your team.
We have advised clients ranging from major brands to boutique agencies  on a broad spectrum of issues relating to advertising, marketing and promotions. Clients engage us to advise on brand development, marketing strategies, tactical programs and advertising[.....]

Australia’s ongoing transition to a low carbon economy presents business with fresh challenges and major opportunities. Members of the Optim Legal Climate Change group have been in the vanguard of the global climate change and carbon finance markets, advising governments, financial institutions, and corporations on an extensive range of carbon finance matters from origination through to distribution.