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About the firm

A commercial law firm built around a simple premise: the best outcome is the one the client can actually act on.

Opportuna Legal advises private companies, boards, and business owners in Western Australia and across the country, with a particular focus on capital markets, corporate transactions, governance, and United States cross-border work.

The firm

What Opportuna Legal does, and why clients come to it.

Opportuna Legal is a specialist commercial law firm with offices in Perth and Esperance. The firm acts on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private capital raising, commercial contracts, employment and contractor law, and United States cross-border matters, with a continuing interest in the corporate governance and shareholder dynamics that sit beneath every deal.

The firm is small by choice. Private company boards and owners often need to move quickly on matters where the commercial and legal questions are tightly interconnected. That is easier to do with a partner-led engagement than with a layered team whose partners appear only at the beginning and the end. Clients who work with Opportuna Legal deal with the director on their matters, from first conversation through to execution.

The firm also works with accountants, investment bankers, corporate advisers, and offshore counsel on matters where a commercial lawyer who understands Western Australian conditions is needed alongside the broader transaction team. Referral partner relationships are built and maintained deliberately.

The director

Led by Anthony Jarvis. Experienced across the work that is actually done.

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Anthony Jarvis
Director and Principal

Anthony founded Opportuna Legal to bring a commercially sophisticated legal service to private companies, boards, and business owners in Western Australia. He advises on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, commercial contracts, employment and contractor matters, and United States cross-border transactions.

His work regularly takes him between Perth, Esperance, the Northern Territory, and clients in North America. He tutors introductory contract law at Curtin Law School and writes regularly on commercial and regulatory developments for clients and referral partners.

Admissions

  • Supreme Court of Western Australia
  • Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
  • High Court of Australia

Memberships and interests

  • Law Society of Western Australia
  • Esperance Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Curtin Law School (contract law tutor)
  • Active interest in US cross-border work
Capabilities by client type

The firm's work is organised around four client groups.

Perth corporate

Private companies in the ten to one hundred million dollar revenue range, boards evaluating exit options, and founders considering external investment.

  • Capital markets readiness
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Board composition

High-net-worth individuals

Individuals and families with trust structures, business ownership interests, and succession planning needs that require commercial and advisory depth.

  • Family trust structuring
  • Business succession
  • Discretionary trust review
  • Estate planning coordination

United States inbound

American life sciences, defence, and technology companies entering the Australian market, including through acquisition, subsidiary formation, or agency arrangements.

  • FIRB approvals
  • Australian subsidiary formation
  • TGA, ITAR, and export controls
  • Cross-border contract structuring

Regional Western Australia

Primary producers, family businesses, and commercial property owners across the South Coast and Goldfields regions, with appointments available in Esperance.

  • Family business succession
  • Commercial property
  • Supply and offtake agreements
  • Employment and contractor law
How we work

Three commitments that shape every engagement.

I.

Commercial first

Every matter begins with the commercial objective. The legal instruments follow from the result the client needs to reach, not the other way around.

II.

Direct access

Clients deal with the director on their matters. There is no handing off to a junior team, and no ambiguity about who is responsible for the outcome.

III.

Timely action

Opportuna is named for the commercial reality that opportunity is time-sensitive. Work is scoped and executed on a timetable that reflects the client's commercial window, not the firm's convenience.

Offices

Two offices in Western Australia. National and international reach.

Perth

21 Howard Street

Perth, Western Australia 6000

+61 (8) XXXX XXXX

Esperance

South Coast, Western Australia

By appointment

+61 (8) XXXX XXXX

Discuss a matter.

If you are a board, a founder, a high-net-worth individual, or a US business considering Australian entry, an initial conversation costs nothing.

Contact Opportuna Legal