Hall & Wilcox

hallandwilcox.com.au

NPS ®

Media and Entertainment

Martin Ross

Martin is a Partner at Hall & Wilcox, and leads the firm's national Corporate and Commercial team. Martin practices commercial law with extensive experience in contracts and commercial litigation. He focuses on corporate, commercial, regulatory and private clients, with particular expertise in the sports and media sectors. Martin's expertise includes complex commercial contracting, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked on high-profile and complex transactions and litigation, including media rights transactions, major sponsorship agreements, M&A in sport, governance, and rules and regulations.

James Deady

James has experience in a broad range of commercial and intellectual property matters, including intellectual property commercialisation, agreements and licensing, trade mark registrability and infringement issues. James also has extensive experience in technology procurement, licensing and outsourcing matters. This work includes drafting and advising on IT contracts, including software licences, software, platform and infrastructure as a service agreements, software development agreements, IT project and implementation agreements, and IT service contracts, and drafting and advising on general commercial agreements.

Natalie Bannister

Natalie lead’s Hall & Wilcox’s Commercial practice (which includes litigation, corporate and commercial, tax, employment, private clients, banking and finance and property and projects) and has broad experience across many areas of commercial law. Natalie also has close to 20 years’ experience in property, planning and environment law. She acts primarily for institutional clients, utility providers, property developers and large companies. Her experience includes property due diligence, sales and acquisitions; commercial and retail leasing including managing national property portfolios; land contamination including compliance, risk allocation and liability, management and clean-up; obtaining development approvals; planning advice and compliance (including in respect of Aboriginal and European Heritage, native vegetation, traffic, noise, flooding and water quality impacts); rates and land tax objections; compulsory acquisition of land and compensation and property disputes and advice about easements, rights of way and adverse possession. She regularly acts as an advocate before VCAT and at planning panel hearings. Natalie has been recognised as a leading Australian lawyer in Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession. She has also been recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia in Real Property Law every year since 2017 and was a Finalist at the 2020 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Executive of the Year. Natalie is customer-service focused and is constantly evolving and improving the way she delivers legal services to make it as easy as possible for clients to do business with her. Natalie takes an innovative approach to pricing, using fixed fees and other alternative fee arrangements to deliver price certainty and value for money. Natalie is responsive to clients and always does what she says she will do.

Team Services

Hall & Wilcox’s Sports and Entertainment team is well known for its high quality, prompt and commercially focused work on high profile, high value and strategically important matters.

We have in-depth understanding of medium to large enterprises, and the regulatory framework in which they operate. The team has worked on many large media rights transactions, major sponsorship agreements, M&As in sport, governance, rules and regulations, and disputes.

Our Sports and Entertainment law team are experienced in acting for some of the largest and most prominent sporting organisations in Australia and internationally, public and private corporations, governing bodies, athletes, sponsors, agencies, and high profile individuals involved in significant transactions and disputes.

Our multidisciplinary team assist clients on all industry related matters including:

commercial
governance
media - transactional
media - regulatory
litigation and sports disputes
intellectual property
property
employment and industrial relations
individuals
public liability