Opportuna Legal advises on corporate transactions and capital raising, corporate governance and shareholders agreements, trust and succession structures, and United States cross-border work.
Every engagement begins with the commercial result the client needs, and the legal instruments follow from that. Opportuna Legal works across governance, transactions, trust and succession structures and United States market entry, from incorporation through to capital raising, exit, and intergenerational transfer.
Mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, private capital raising, takeovers, and offshore listings.
Explore →Shareholders agreements, board composition, director duties, and deadlock mechanisms.
Explore →Discretionary trust review and restructuring, appointor succession, business succession, and family wealth structures.
Explore →FIRB approvals, Australian subsidiary formation, life sciences regulatory pathways, and defence industry market entry.
Explore →Supply, distribution, services, licensing, government and defence procurement.
ASDEFCON contracting, AUKUS-adjacent compliance, and teaming arrangements with Australian primes.
Commercial leases, renewals, and surrenders.
Licensing, technology transfer, software and SaaS contracts.
ASIC, ACCC, AUSTRAC and TGA.
Australian businesses at any stage — from incorporation through to capital raising, exit, or succession — and the individuals who own them.
Individuals, family groups, and trustees managing discretionary trusts, succession planning, and intergenerational wealth structures.
Farming families, pastoralists, and agribusinesses across Western Australia, particularly those managing succession, trust structures, and commercial arrangements over generational timeframes.
Directors navigating governance obligations, shareholder disputes, deadlock, or the transition from private to listed company.
American life sciences and defence companies entering Australia, working alongside their offshore advisers on the Australian legal work.
When two parties hold property through a jointly held unit trust and the relationship between them breaks down, neither party has a general right to walk away from the arrangement. The NSW Court of Appeal confirmed the position in Carr v Ritossa [2025] NSWCA 108.
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