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John Graves
Consultant
Corporate
I am an accredited specialist in Business Law and Property Law proving a broad range of corporate, commercial and property legal services to industries including information technology and other technology based businesses, property developers, transport and tourism operators, charities, not for profits and churches as well as private clients and their service providers (including accountants and financial planners).
I have extensive Boardroom experience having sat on a number of company boards during my career including a hospital, a financial institution, a property developer, a medical research foundation and a number of charitable and community boards.
I am passionate about giving back to the community and the legal profession which is evidenced by my long tenure as the Chairman of the Business Law Specialist Accreditation Examination Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales.
Experience
With a career invested in the law, I have extensive experience in:
- Sale and purchase of industrial and commercial businesses by asset and share sale
- Working with clients to resolve complex shareholder disputes
- Intellectual property advice for a broad range of commercial clients
- General corporate, commercial and business advice
- Succession planning, restructuring and funding advice for corporate and family group of companies
- Negotiating and successfully resolving complex inter-company guarantee dispute
- Negotiating, drafting and settling of complex hardware, software development and information technology contracts
- Advising business of their intellectual property rights and drafting associated documentation and acting in enforcement proceedings
- Complex property development including acting for individual developers and consortiums of investors
Sale and purchase of rural land and commercial property including Sydney CBD towers
Expertise
- Corporate Law
- Business Law
- Property Law
- Commercial Law
Roles, memberships and education
- Extensive law firm management experience
- Chairman of the Examination Committee for Business Law Specialist Accreditation for the Law Society of New South Wales
- Director of the corporation holding the assets of the Uniting Church in Australia
- Member of the Statutory Corporation for the Uniting Church in New South Wales, The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW)
- Honorary lawyer for the Australian Tourism Export Council Limited
- Member of the Law Society of NSW
- Member of Skål International Sydney North (Tourism industry group)
- Member of Australian Tourism Export Council Limited
- University of New South Wales, Sydney – Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance and Systems)
- University of New South Wales, Sydney – Bachelor of Laws