Mr Philip Dowling > Thomson Geer > Brisbane, Australia > Lawyer Profile

Philip has over 30 years’ experience practicing in business, commercial, and corporate law.

Philip’s range of industry experience includes agribusiness (private sector and public sector), mining services, large commercial and residential property development projects, acquisitions and sales, manufacturing, food service, medical practices, wills, and estates.

Philip’s areas of expertise are:

• Corporate acquisitions – company and business acquisitions, mergers, buy outs, and joint ventures.
• Corporate governance – legal compliance, directors’ duties, statutory interpretation, governance, and best practices.
• Commercial – wide range of general commercial legal services to businesses as a principal legal adviser to several large business enterprises, including commercial property transactions.
• Restructuring and privatisation – corporatisation of statutory bodies and co-operatives to public and private companies, as well as restructuring/conversion of private sector companies and businesses.
• Primary industries – acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, trade sales, co-operation, and alliance agreements. As well as a wide variety of commercial agreements/transactions ranging from grain and commodity storage and handling, shipping, export and supply agreements, share-farming, crop damage, defective/contaminated crops, and sales and purchases of large rural properties.
• Wills & estates – drafting wills (codicils, memorandum of wishes, and POAs), acting as executor in a large number of estates, completing administration of substantial and complex estates (including probate, letters of administration, and intestacies), and acting in estate litigation.