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Commercial law · Perth · Esperance

Commercial law for companies and boards that need to move quickly without compromising governance.

Opportuna Legal advises private companies, boards, and business owners across capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, commercial contracts, employment, and United States cross-border work.

The firm

Commercially sophisticated. Regionally accessible. Internationally aware.

Opportuna Legal is a specialist commercial law firm with offices in Perth and Esperance, Western Australia. The firm acts for private companies considering capital raising or exit, boards evaluating governance and risk, high-net-worth individuals with trust and succession needs, and United States businesses entering the Australian market.

The firm's name reflects its approach. Good commercial outcomes depend on acting at the right time, with the right information, on the right instruments. Every engagement begins with the commercial objective and works backwards to the legal solution.

Practice Areas

Six interconnected disciplines that reflect how private companies actually operate.

Capital Markets

Initial public offering readiness and execution, private capital raising, convertible instruments, and offshore listings including the Texas Stock Exchange.

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Private company sales and acquisitions, management buyouts, vendor due diligence, and warranty and indemnity insurance.

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Corporate Governance

Shareholder agreements, board composition, deadlock resolution, minority shareholder protections, and director duties.

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Commercial Contracts

Supply, distribution, services, licensing, and procurement across private, government, and defence sectors.

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Employment and Contractors

Employment contracts, contractor classification, restraint of trade, and workplace policy design.

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United States Cross-Border

Foreign Investment Review Board approvals, Australian subsidiary formation, life sciences regulatory pathways, and defence industry market entry.

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Who We Act For

Clients who share a common trait: the work matters, and the work is commercially consequential.

Private companies

Australian businesses at the ten to one hundred million dollar revenue range evaluating growth capital, exit paths, or capital markets readiness.

Boards and founders

Directors considering governance uplift, shareholder dynamics, deadlock resolution, or the transition from private to public company.

US inbound businesses

American life sciences and defence companies entering Australia, navigating FIRB, TGA, ITAR, and Australian subsidiary structuring.

Regional enterprises

Primary producers, family businesses, and commercial property owners across the South Coast and Goldfields regions of Western Australia.

Recent Insights

Analysis on the commercial and regulatory developments shaping the year.

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Offices

Perth and Esperance. Both commercially active. Both answered directly.

Perth

21 Howard Street

Perth, Western Australia 6000

+61 (8) XXXX XXXX

Esperance

South Coast, Western Australia

By appointment

+61 (8) XXXX XXXX