peter wright

partner

expertise

  • Workplace Relations & Safety

  • Award Compliance

  • Workplace policies

  • Enforcement of restraint of trade proceedings

  • Enterprise agreement negotiations

  • Fair Work Ombudsman investigations

  • Managing terminations & restructuring

  • General protections

  • Unfair dismissal claims

  • Transfer of employment on sale of business

  • Work health & safety compliance, investigations and prosecution

  • Workplace bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination claims

  • Workplace investigations

  • Insolvency

  • Dispute resolution and mediation

  • ASIC / ATO Investigations

  • Corporate & Commercial

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Contracts Review and Negotiation

  • Competition & Consumer Law

  • Corporate Governance

  • Commercial & Corporate Advisory

  • Business Succession

  • Restructuring

  • Corporate Finance

  • Shareholder & joint venture agreements

Peter Wright has been Partner in the firm since 1990 and is an Accredited Specialist in business law.  Peter has extensive experience providing broad based commercial advice to individuals as well as private and public sector clients across a wide range of industries including retail, professional services and property.

He works with his clients to provide clear and practical advice, while being focused on the commercial objectives of the client.

With over 30 years experience, Peter is able to assist in all aspects of managing and operating a business including:

  • Corporate structuring;

  • Corporate and commercial law including advisory and transactional work;

  • Competition and consumer law;

  • Employment law;

  • Commercial disputes; and

  • Insolvency.

qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws/ Bachelor of Commerce, University of New South Wales

memberships

  • Chartered Tax Advisor - Tax Institute of Australia

  • Commercial Law Association of Australia

  • Law Society of New South Wales

  • Australian Institute of Company Directors

  • Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association

 
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Workplace Relations
Call when you want, but there's no one home, and you're not gonna reach my telephone! The "Right to Disconnect" becomes law
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Employees will have the right to disconnect from work outside normal working hours, after amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) were recently passed.

Importantly, nothing in the new law suggests that an employer cannot contact an employee outside of their normal working hours. Rather, the amendments mean employees may refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact, or attempted contact, from an employer or third party outside of the employee’s working hours unless the refusal is unreasonable.

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Get it right or pay the (much higher) price! Increased penalties for Competition and Consumer Law breaches and new penalties for Unfair Contract Terms
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Parliament has now passed the much anticipated changes to competition and consumer laws which means businesses will now face higher penalties for beach of competition and consumer laws and new penalties for unfair contract terms.

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NSW duties net substantially expanded
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Do you need to pay duty on transactions that were not previously dutiable in NSW? From 20 May 2022, the answer could be yes.

From 20 May 2022, the New South Wales duties net has been considerably widened. While the scope of the changes is not yet fully known, it is clear that duty is now imposed on transactions that were not previously dutiable in New South Wales:

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