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Amity Jarvis

Senior Associate

Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

  • Business Sales
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Commercial Agreements
  • Governance
  • Due Diligence
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Business Law
  • Commercial Advice
  • Business and Investment Structures
  • Corporations Law
  • Regulatory Compliance

Amity is a Senior Associate in the Corporate & Commercial team with broad commercial experience in a range of corporate transactions and advisory engagements. As well as practising in general corporate and commercial matters, Amity acts for both buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions including business and share sale and purchase.

Amity has worked across various sectors including retail, aged care, not-for-profit, consumer goods, technology, government and arts & creative, acting on key commercial contracting arrangements as well as advising on corporate governance and regulatory compliance.

Experience

  • Acting on both large-scale and small-medium corporate transactions and advisory engagements including restructuring, refinancing and sale/purchase of business and shares
  • Acting for both buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions
  • Preparing and negotiating a wide range of transactional and post-completion documents
  • Preparing and negotiating shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements and ancillary documents
  • Preparing and negotiating general commercial contracts for business operations
  • Advising on Corporations Act in relation to complex restructuring of family holdings
  • Conducting legal compliance checks, reviewing and advising on policies and procedures
  • Advising on regulatory and corporate governance matters, including ASIC requirements and director/officer duties
  • Company secretarial duties including board papers, company register maintenance, notices, minutes and ASIC filings

Leadership

  • Committee Member – Russell Kennedy’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group
  • Vice Chair/Board Member – Ausdance Victoria
  • Committee Member – The Australian Ballet Society