South East Asia
Our South East Asia (SEA) Practice is one of Australia's most comprehensive legal teams dedicated to supporting businesses and investors from Southeast Asia. We advise clients on all aspects of doing business in Australia and internationally, offering tailored legal solutions for enterprises headquartered or affiliated with SEA countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Our SEA-Australia legal advisory team provides end-to-end legal services to:
- SEA-based corporations and subsidiaries
- Financial institutions and listed companies
- Private equity and investment funds
- Ultra-high-net-worth individuals
- Technology startups and scale-ups
Multidisciplinary expertise
Our lawyers bring deep expertise across:
- Corporate law & M&A
- Technology & innovation
- Energy & environment
- Fund management & financial services
- Real estate investment & development
- Healthcare & medical services
- Commercial litigation & dispute resolution
- Immigration & employment law
- Private wealth & succession planning
Cross-border legal experience
We understand the cultural and regulatory differences between Southeast Asia and Australia. Our bilingual lawyers, including Mandarin-speaking legal experts, ensure seamless communication and culturally sensitive legal advice.
We maintain strong relationships with independent law firms across SEA, and are active members of international legal networks, enabling us to support cross-border transactions and regulatory compliance with confidence.
Recognised excellence
Our SEA Practice is consistently ranked in Legal 500 and Best Lawyers Australia, reflecting our reputation for excellence and client satisfaction.
Our South East Asia experience
- Acting for a Malaysian company conducting prospectus due diligence on an Australian subsidiary prior to the listing of the parent company on the Bursa Malaysia
- Acting for a Malaysian group in respect of the operations of an Australian aged care business
- Acting for a large privately owned Singapore headquartered group on two acquisitions in Australia
- Providing Australian law advice to Singapore headquartered clients on multi-jurisdictional SEA transactions involving Australian subsidiaries (both buy-side and sell side roles)
- Providing regulatory advice to corporates seeking Australian law advice on laws across the Asia Pacific
- Advising on a wide range of property transactions and property fund matters involving SEA clients and investors in Australian property
- Providing FIRB advice to SEA clients
- Advising SEA clients on a range of insurance and cyber security matters
- Acting for SEA headquartered banks and financial institutions on Australian law matters
- Providing Australian migration law and employment law advice to SEA clients
- Providing IP, technology and trademark law advice to SEA clients on Australian law
- Advising on disputes for SEA clients in Australian courts and on the enforcement of security in Australia
- Providing advice to private clients and family offices on tax, estate planning and disputes where family members, assets, structures or disputes are located in Australia
- Providing Australian tax law advice in respect of restructures involving SEA corporate groups with Australian entities
- Advising Straits Real Estate (a Singapore real estate investment company) on the issuance of secured notes to Maxcap (an Australia real estate investment company) in connection with the development of the residential project known as ‘Aspire’ in Melbourne
- Acting for the head company of a UK based family-owned global publishing business with distribution in USA, Asia and Australia. The project involved the restructure and sale of the Australian business.
- Advising one of the world’s largest international skincare and cosmetics companies headquartered in South Korea on the acquisition of a significant minority interest in shares in an Australian company with a well-known luxury skincare brand.
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