Commercial & IP Lawyers - Brisbane
Legal counsel built
around your business.
We don't wait for problems. We work alongside you - protecting your ideas, strengthening your contracts, and building legal foundations that grow with your business.
About Us
We're not your
typical law firm
Most legal advice is reactive - you call when something's gone wrong, get advice, pay the bill, and move on. That's not how we work.
We build long-term relationships with the businesses and people we advise. We learn what you're building, where you're headed, and what matters to you - not just in the current matter, but in the years ahead. That depth of understanding is what lets us give you advice that's actually useful, not just technically correct.
Proactive Protection
We get ahead of problems rather than reacting to them.
Collaborative Approach
We work with you and a network of trusted specialists across disciplines.
Practical Advice
Clear conversations over lengthy letters of advice.
Services
What we do
A commercial law practice working across intellectual property, confidential information, privacy, commercial contracts, and governance.
Outsourced Counsel
We work alongside you as an integrated part of your business - attending meetings, advising on strategy, reviewing deals before they are signed, and building legal foundations that support growth.
Learn more →Intellectual Property
From trade marks, copyright, and designs through to licensing, assignments, and enforcement - we manage the full IP lifecycle including patent portfolio coordination and R&D audits.
Learn more →Confidential Information
We help businesses build practical frameworks to protect trade secrets, proprietary processes, pricing strategies, formulations, and business know-how with robust legal protections.
Learn more →Commercial Contracts
We draft, review, and negotiate supply agreements, distribution contracts, licensing arrangements, platform agreements, and terms of sale - written so both parties understand and can act on them.
Learn more →Governance
Shareholder agreements, director duties, decision-making authorities, and board protocols - the frameworks that separate businesses that scale sustainably from those that don't.
Learn more →Privacy & Data
Obligations under Australian privacy law, compliant data handling practices, privacy policies, consent mechanisms, data processing agreements, and breach response procedures.
Learn more →R&D Tax Incentives
Legal support that strengthens R&D Tax Incentive claims - R&D agreements, IP ownership, at-risk rule compliance, and documentation frameworks - working alongside your R&D Tax Advisor.
Learn more →Industry Focus
Sectors we serve
Our clients span multiple industries. What they have in common is that they're building something - and they want a legal partner who gets that.
Music & Entertainment
Recording and publishing agreements, artist management, sync licensing, copyright disputes, and the complex IP questions around sampling, AI-generated content, and digital distribution.
Manufacturing
Commercial contracts across your supply chain, protection of trade secrets and proprietary processes, and IP ownership in product development with contractors, designers, and engineers.
Distribution
Domestic wholesale through to international distribution and reseller agreements. We negotiate terms, allocate risk, and build protections for when relationships change.
eCommerce
Terms and conditions, privacy policies, Australian Consumer Law compliance, platform agreements, third-party logistics, and the IP issues that arise when working with developers and creators.
Principal
Lindsay Mengel
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Lindsay has spent his career working with people who are building something worth protecting - sole inventors, growing businesses, Australian sports teams, and some of the music industry's most recognised names.
What's driven that work isn't the complexity of the legal questions - it's the people behind them. Lindsay takes the time to understand who he's working with and what they're actually trying to achieve, because good advice is only useful if it fits the reality of the client's situation.
A commercial intellectual property lawyer with extensive experience across design, manufacturing, technology, supply chains, and the creative industries. Before establishing his practice, he worked with one of Australia's leading intellectual property and entertainment lawyers and held advisory roles with an advanced manufacturing hub and a creative management agency.
Who We Work With
Businesses at every
stage of growth
We work with businesses at points of growth and transition - moving from sole trader to small business, small to medium, medium to larger - where the legal foundations that have served you so far need to grow with you.
We also work with established businesses that want a trusted, ongoing legal relationship rather than a transactional one - and with founders, operators, and owner-managers who just want someone commercially minded they can talk to.
If you're doing something innovative, we'd genuinely like to hear about it.
Get in Touch
Let's talk about
your business
Whether you need ongoing legal support, advice on a specific matter, or just want to talk through where your business is headed - we're here to help.