Commercial & Corporate · PTF Partners, Brisbane

Sign the contract knowing exactly where the risk sits.

Senior commercial counsel for Brisbane founders, SMEs, and growing businesses — at fixed fees, with same-business-day responses, and a single point of contact on every matter.

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10+ years cross-border practice Brisbane CBD Senior partner on every matter

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If this sounds familiar

The situations we’re most often the right call for.

You’re about to sign a long contract and you’d rather not be wrong about it.

Supply, services, SaaS, distribution, NDAs. You want to know where the teeth are before you sign — and where you can reasonably push back.

Founding a company, and the paperwork is doing things you didn’t agree to.

Shareholder agreements, share splits, vesting, IP assignments. You want the structure to actually reflect the deal you made on the whiteboard.

A commercial relationship that has stopped working.

Suppliers, partners, contractors. You want a calm assessment of leverage and a written path back to either an outcome or a clean exit.

Selling, buying, or bringing in an investor.

Heads of agreement, due diligence, transaction documents, settlement. You want the deal to actually close — not just be papered.

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What you get on the call

Twenty minutes. Three things you walk away with.

Even if you don’t engage us, the call is worth your time. Here’s exactly what you’ll have by the end of it.

1

An honest read on your situation.

We tell you what we actually think — including whether you need a lawyer at all, and whether we’re the right one for this matter.

2

Clear next steps.

A written summary of what we’d do, in what order, and what you should do first — whether or not you engage us.

3

A fixed-fee quote.

If it makes sense for us to do the work, we send a fixed-fee quote (or a clearly capped scope) by the end of the call. No “we’ll get back to you.”

Clients on PTF

What clients say after the work is done.

Reviewed and renegotiated our enterprise supply agreement — saved us a $40k exposure on day one.
FounderBrisbane SaaS company
Drafted our founders’ agreement in a week. Plain English, no surprises, and the vesting actually worked.
Co-founderMed-tech start-up
Exited a five-year supplier relationship cleanly. Got us a settlement we didn’t think was possible.
Managing DirectorLogistics business

Client names withheld for confidentiality. Available on request.

Why founders & SMEs pick PTF

Three things we hold to, every matter.

Considered

Every paragraph of advice carries its weight. Plain English. Trade-offs surfaced early. We tell you what we’d do if it were our matter.

Commercial

Work is measured in outcomes, not in hours billed. We pick the shortest credible path to a good result — not the most thorough-looking one.

Clear

Transparent fees. Same-day acknowledgements. Plain-English correspondence. You should never open an invoice and be surprised.

The work, typically

What an engagement covers.

  • Company and trust structuring; founders’ and shareholders’ agreements
  • Commercial contracts: supply, services, distribution, SaaS, NDAs, terms of service
  • Contract review with a written summary of where the risk sits
  • Negotiation support — drafting redlines and attending the calls when useful
  • Acquisitions, divestments, and minority investment transactions
  • Commercial disputes: demand letters, settlement deeds, exit negotiations

Scope is agreed before any work starts. You’ll receive a written engagement letter with a fixed fee (or capped scope, for open-ended matters) before you commit.

How it runs

From your enquiry to a signed outcome.

You enquire

A few lines via the form below. We acknowledge the same business day.

Free 20-min call

An honest read, clear next steps, and a fixed-fee quote if it makes sense.

Engagement & fee

Written scope, fixed fee. Nothing starts until you sign off in writing.

Work delivered

Delivered, walked through with you in plain English, and the file is closed cleanly.

Before you enquire

Common questions, answered.

How much will this cost?

You’ll have a written fixed-fee quote (or a clearly capped scope, for open-ended matters) by the end of the initial call — before any work begins. Most discrete pieces of work — a contract review, a shareholders’ agreement, a single-issue advice — sit between $1,500 and $6,000 plus GST.

How quickly will I hear back?

Same business day for all initial enquiries. For active matters, our service standard is a response within one business day, and almost always sooner.

What happens on the free 20-minute call?

We listen, ask the questions that matter, give you an honest read on your situation, and — if it makes sense — quote a fixed fee for the work. You walk away with clear next steps whether or not you engage us.

Do you handle court litigation?

We handle commercial disputes up to the point of formal litigation — demands, negotiation, settlement deeds. If a matter escalates to court, we refer you to a senior litigator from our trusted bench and stay involved as your relationship lawyer.

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