Darcy McLennan

PRINCIPAL LAWYER

Darcy McLennan is a corporate lawyer with extensive experience, as both an external counsel and an internal counsel, helping businesses to achieve their objectives while managing legal and commercial risk.

With a practice that focuses on providing pragmatic and accessible advice, Darcy seeks to develop a deep understanding of his client’s business, to quickly get to the heart of the issue, and to support his clients to mitigate threats and maximise opportunities.

Darcy has extensive experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, helping them to navigate complex commercial contracts, transactions, and controversies in a commercial and risk-based manner.

Darcy has spent over a decade working in global law firms and the internal legal teams of multinational and ASX-listed corporations. He is accustomed to operating in sensitive, fast-paced environments, and focuses on reducing complexity for stakeholders and providing clear, concise legal advice

Darcy has extensive transactional experience, including:

Drafting a wide range of commercial contracts, including goods supply agreements, services agreements, procurement agreements, sponsorship agreements, IT contracts, NDAs/confidentiality agreements, licence agreements, and term sheets.

Guiding clients through complex contractual negotiations, assisting contract parties to reach alignment on key terms and finalise deals.

Advising on commercial and contractual controversies, with a view to achieving a prompt and sensible resolution.

Assisting clients to develop or enhance standard contract templates and T&Cs
Advising on joint venture, shareholder and unitholder agreements.

Advising on the acquisition and disposal of businesses and assets.

Advising on key procedural components of corporate transactions, such as joint bidding / teaming agreements, due diligence and data room processes, and information sharing / clean team protocols.
Advising businesses on compliance with complex regulatory regimes, including the Competition and Consumer Act, Privacy Act and Spam Act.

Guiding businesses through regulatory investigations, including numerous ACCC investigations and market studies.

Preparing correspondence with regulators including submissions and responses to requests for information.