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Building a better tomorrow?
Future industries deserve lawyers as innovative as their engineers. We fuse legal advice with technology to streamline operations, manage supply-chain risk, and handle the compliance load that comes with building the materials of tomorrow.
Legal services for future industries.
You're building the materials and infrastructure of tomorrow. We're changing how legal services are delivered to keep pace — leveraging technology to streamline operations and tackle compliance at speed. You'll notice the difference.
Tech systems and legal advice, fused
We're a fully licensed legal practice that operates more like a technology company. If we can solve a problem for you by deploying technology that makes legal services unnecessary or cheaper, we'd rather do that than bill for redundant administrative work.
Supply chain made easy
Complex supply chains don't have to be complicated to manage. We fuse legal and technology services so you can streamline contractor dealings and integrate procurement into a modern back-office — no forest of paper.
01 · Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management
Firm up supplier relationships with contracting advice plus practical integration between your suppliers and your digital back-office. Built for operations where suppliers create administrative friction.
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02 · Contractor Management
Contractor Management
Work effectively with subcontractors and scale your supply chain without the paper mountain. Standardised agreements, onboarding protocols and cross-border compliance you can actually operate.
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03 · Security of Payments
Security of Payments
Set up for a smooth project and avoid progress-payment disputes. Compliance with state-based SOPA regimes, and an experienced hand when adjudication timelines tighten to 35 business days.
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04 · Funding & Grants
Funding & Grants
Win funding or grants and bring your ambitions to life. We help you present investor- and government-ready documentation that carries the weight of a proper legal practice behind it.
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05 · Debt Recovery
Debt Recovery
Get paid faster and de-escalate payment disputes before they derail the project. Technology-driven recovery, structured for future-industry operators working across multiple jurisdictions.
ExploreCompliance pillars for future industries.
Materials, clean energy and complex manufacturing all sit under a compliance stack that traditional firms struggle to operate at speed. Here's where we spend our time — and how the legal/technology fusion changes the shape of the work.
Standardise the supply chain
Supply chains that cross state or international borders don't have to give you a headache. We simplify the complexity of subcontracting and develop standard contracts and onboarding protocols that streamline operations at scale.
We're particularly effective where technology takes the heavy lifting, and your business relies on sophisticated integrations to handle transactions at volume that paper can't match.
Security of Payments, demystified
Security of Payments legislation regulates contracts for construction, and the definition of 'construction' has nuance — you don't have to run an on-site operation for it to apply. If your venture crosses state borders, check the applicability wherever you sit in the supply chain.
Australia handles SOPA at State and Territory level, split between an East Coast model (statutory progress-claim process with adjudication) and a West Coast model (historically built around contractual dispute referral). We help you navigate the version that actually applies, from NSW SOPA through to the rebuilt WA Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act.
Practical employment compliance
Alongside SOPA and insurance, employment law is the major compliance challenge in complex manufacturing and materials. We help as a traditional law firm and we help digitise employee onboarding, analyse HR data and align payroll to industry best practice.
Traditional firms often baulk at recommending software to tackle compliance. For us it's a core part of the work.
Contracting, without the printer
Customers of today expect future industries to have a digitally equipped contract lifecycle. Turn your paper signature process into a streamlined sales machine with a technology-agnostic consulting approach that fits into your existing stack.
We're just sorry we can't help you dispose of all your printers.
Handle payment disputes with ease.
SOPA is designed to defer or expedite the substance of payment disputes so cashflow stays intact. Counter-intuitive when something goes wrong — but with planning and a digitally equipped legal team, the adjudication process is survivable.
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A payment claim lands and the clock starts.
A subcontractor serves a payment claim under the relevant state SOPA — for example Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW). From that moment, the principal contractor is operating against a statutory timetable rather than the contract's ordinary dispute clauses.
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Respond with a payment schedule.
Issue a payment schedule that identifies the scheduled amount and the reasons for any difference from the claim. Miss the statutory window and the claimant is entitled to the full claimed amount as a default position, without the dispute ever reaching an adjudicator.
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Dispute is referred to adjudication.
The claimant lodges an adjudication application and the respondent prepares its response. Parties gather evidence, marshal submissions and put their case quickly — the adjudication process can require everything to be on the table within 35 business days.
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Adjudicator issues a determination.
The adjudicator decides the amount payable and when. The determination is interim by design — it preserves cashflow without finally resolving the underlying contractual dispute, which can still be litigated or arbitrated in a longer-form forum.
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Work resumes while the commercial dispute continues.
Payment is made in line with the determination and the project gets moving again. Any residual technical or commercial disagreement is triaged into the appropriate forum, separated from the cashflow question SOPA has already answered.
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Final payment and project close-out.
Final payment is processed and the project closes out. Lessons from the dispute are baked back into the standard procurement suite so the next project starts from a stronger position.
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