Practice Areas: Corporate and Commercial
PMH represents a diverse clientele, ranging from family-held enterprises to publicly-listed companies, including local businesses, financial institutions and multinationals. Our advisory capabilities span every phase of a company's growth cycle. We undertake day to day corporate maintenance and regulatory compliance, negotiating domestic and international commercial agreements, structuring and documenting joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings, advising on employment law issues, taxation, liquidations and de-registrations at completion of dissolution.
For information please contact: Trevor Patterson, Lynda Mair, Arthur Hamilton, Sharon Neil SmithCorporate Compliance and Governance
We assist companies to maintain the highest operating standards that incorporate the highest ideals of business conduct to protect the company’s integrity. Our corporate secretarial services include the provision of registered office facilities, advice on and assistance in compliance with local regulatory requirements and annual filings, duties and responsibilities of corporate officers and legal due diligence investigations.
For information please contact: Trevor Patterson, Lynda Mair, Arthur Hamilton, Sharon Neil SmithCorporate Restructuring, Liquidation & Insolvency
We assist our clients meet present-day corporate challenges, guiding them through required business restructurings of assets and liabilities. PMH provides advice on public offerings, corporate restructuring and insolvency, assisting clients by providing support for all aspects of restructuring and insolvency-related proceedings. These include receivership and liquidations, rights of secured and unsecured creditors and schemes of arrangement.
For information please contact: Trevor Patterson, Lynda MairMergers & Acquisitions
Members of the Firm are often called upon to assist clients with transactions involving the change in control of enterprises. The commercial know-how of our attorneys facilitates the consideration of each transaction from various angles, including areas such as intellectual property, employment, property and tax, all working together to resolve the complex issues likely to be raised in business combination transactions. We add value to the transaction by guiding clients through the entire process; legal analyses of the business strengths and weaknesses to the conclusion of the transaction. Our services include advising directors and shareholders, working with management on strategy, overseeing due diligence investigations, drafting and negotiating agreements, attending to required filings, and post-acquisition planning and restructuring.
For more information, please contact: Trevor Patterson, Lynda Mair, Arthur Hamilton, Sharon Neil SmithCommercial Agreements
PMH routinely assists clients with a broad range of commercial agreements including sale and purchase agreements for all types of assets. Additionally, we offer advice on franchising and merchandising, management and consultancy agreements, guarantees and indemnities, technical support service and technology transfer agreements, toll and contract packing agreements, subscription and investment agreements, marketing, distribution and agency agreements.
For information please contact: Trevor Patterson, Lynda Mair, Arthur Hamilton, Sharon Neil Smith