Before You Tie the Knot

Before You Tie the Knot is a selection of chapters on contemporary issues in Australian joint venture law. The authors are practitioners and consultants from leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

Each chapter of the book is written by a legal practitioner and provides a comprehensive analysis of a specialist area of law, that has the benefit of the authors' many years of commercial experience. Before You Tie the Knot contains approximately 500 pages of discussion on contemporary practice, case law and areas that may be subject to reform. 

This book contains a foreword by the Honourable Justice F Gleeson of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

Tony Damian and Andrew Rich are Partners at leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. With half a century of deal experience between them, they have acted on some of Australia’s most significant public M&A and corporate restructuring deals.

1. Introduction
2. The accidental joint venture
3. The modern meaning of joint venture terms
4. Governing the union - management, control and information in an incorporated joint venture
5. Issues relating to financing joint ventures
6. The employee question
7. Intellectual property
8. Competition law and joint ventures
9. Tax considerations
10. Special issues in resources joint ventures
11. Private equity joint ventures
12. Untying the knot: a modern take on oppression
13. International joint ventures and dispute resolution
14. English law joint ventures - some key considerations

Format: paperback
Size: 250 × 176 × 18 mm
355 pages
Copyright: © 2015
ISBN: 9780987519122
Publication: 29 Jan 2015