Joint Venture Agreements and Start-ups
Issues covered include: disputes, Resolution Clauses, Start-Up, Strategic Alliances, Shareholder Agreements
Description
Would you like to broaden your practice and not miss out on clients in start ups, or those needing shareholder and joint venture agreements? Are you across all the issues in these complex and growing areas? Gain insights into the main legal issues and risks you need to be aware of. Equipped with this knowledge, you will be able to act in the best interests of your clients and, ideally, acquire new ones.
Attend and earn 4 CPD points including:
3 CPD points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
1 CPD point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
Chair: Deanna Carpenter, Partner, HWL Ebsworth; Recommended Corporate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
9.00am to 10.00am: Breaking Badly: Joint Venture Disputes: How to Draft Dispute Resolution Clauses for Joint Venture Agreements
- Discover the tips and traps of drafting dispute resolution clauses for joint venture agreements in this practical and timely session
- Including case studies and real world examples
Presented by Sam Luttrell, Counsel, Clifford Chance
10.00am to 11.00am: Commercial & Relationship Issues in the Start-Up World
- Basic principles, structure and expectations
- Regulatory environment
- Founder and investor legal relationship
- Raising money
- Personnel
Presented by Simon Owen, Principal, Grantleigh House
11.00am to 11.15am: Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: WORKSHOP: Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances Workshop
- Identifying and choosing the right structure
- Founder/ entrepreneur and financial investor issues
- Establishing the venture: capitalisation and funding, IP, services and employees
Presented by Luke Paterson, Partner, Jackson McDonald
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: The Psychology Behind Effective Stakeholder Engagement for Establishing Successful JVs and Shareholder Agreements
Success in JVs, mergers and acquisitions rely on the ability to effectively engage and influence the key stakeholders towards agreed positions. This often means dealing with the shareholders and executive management’s joint and personal interests and gaining buy-in for significant change and uncertainty.
Acquire a psychological insight into what key stakeholder powers of influence exist and how to deal with them to achieve a high level of engagement and buy in for M&A projects, and the tools in the toolbox for dealing with stakeholder challenges.
Obtain a trouble shooter’s look at:
- Why individuals are so different
- What ‘power’ of influence versus ‘interest’ actually means
- The fastest way to build effective relationships
- How to deal with difficult key stakeholders
- How steering committees and advisory groups work
Walk away with insights into the complexity of the people dynamics and how to understand the most effective ways to approach and gain buy-in from the key stakeholders.
Presented by Todd Hutchison, Balfour Meagher Legal and Business Advisors
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia