Our Services

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  • Most growing brands reach a point where one-off legal bills feel unsustainable, but a full-time in-house lawyer isn’t justified. That’s exactly where Francesca works best — as your external general counsel. Senior advice, commercial judgment, and someone who understands your business.

    •     Retainer or project basis

    •     Direct access to senior counsel every time

    •     Commercial advice, not just legal risk management

    •     Board and leadership team support

  • AI Legal Advisory

    •     AI vendor contracts and governance

    •     IP ownership for AI-generated content

    •     Internal AI use policies

    •     Board-level risk registers

  • The legal backbone of how your brand operates.

    •     Supply, distribution and wholesale agreements

    •     Licensing and franchise structures

    •     NDAs and confidentiality agreements

    •     IP registration, protection and enforcement

    •     Cease and desist and brand infringement action

    •     Retailer trading terms (including platform agreements)

    •     International contract review

  • Retail and commercial leasing is detail-intensive and time-pressured. Francesca acts as embedded legal counsel across the full leasing lifecycle for brands expanding their physical footprint across Australia and New Zealand.

    •     Disclosure statement review and markup

    •     Lease negotiation (make good, refurbishment, change of control)

    •     Fitout deed review

    •     Option exercise and lease renewals

    •     Lease registration management

    •     Portfolio legal registers

     

  • For brands that collect, use and share customer data

    Consumer brands are sitting on more data than ever — customer purchase history, marketing opt-ins, loyalty programmes, supplier information, and increasingly, data fed into AI tools. Most of the time this runs smoothly. But the legal obligations around how that data is collected, used and shared are getting more complex, and the consequences of getting it wrong — from regulator action to reputational damage — are real.

    Francesca works with brands to make sure their data practices are legally sound and commercially workable. Not theoretical compliance frameworks that sit in a drawer, but practical advice on the specific decisions your team is actually making — and the tools and training to make sure those decisions stay sound as the business grows.

    What this covers:

    • Marketing opt-in flows and email compliance under the Australian Spam Act and NZ Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act

    • Privacy policy drafting and review for Australian and New Zealand operations

    • Customer data collection, use and disclosure obligations under the Australian Privacy Act and NZ Privacy Act 2020

    • Data sharing arrangements with suppliers, retail partners and third-party platforms

    • Privacy implications of AI tool usage — what happens to your customer data when your team feeds it into AI platforms

    • Privacy compliance programmes — assessing your current practices, identifying gaps, and building a roadmap to get compliant

    • Internal privacy policies tailored to how your business actually operates, not generic templates lifted from the internet

    • Team training — practical sessions that give your people the knowledge to handle data correctly day to day, without needing to call a lawyer every time

    • Incident response — what to do if something goes wrong

    Who this is for: DTC brands, fashion and lifestyle retailers, any consumer business collecting customer data at scale across Australia and New Zealand. Particularly relevant for brands expanding into new markets, onboarding new technology platforms, or scaling their marketing operations.

  • For brands ready to modernise how they manage contracts and compliance — without losing legal oversight in the process.

    AI is changing what's possible for in-house legal functions, but most businesses either haven't implemented it, or have done so without the legal expertise to make it work safely. I design and implement AI contract and compliance tooling configured specifically around your business — your agreement types, your risk priorities, your team's workflow. The result is a system that catches the things that matter, reduces your dependence on expensive law firm reviews for routine work, and gives your team a clear process for what to escalate and what to move on. Crucially, my legal judgment sits behind the system — which is what makes it reliable, not just fast. Available as a standalone implementation project or combined with ongoing oversight.

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    Not sure which is the right fit? The first conversation will tell us.

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    This gives you three distinct service descriptions that are genuinely differentiated rather than feeling like variations of the same thing. The AI implementation one in particular positions it as something only you can deliver — the tool is the vehicle, your judgment is the product. Want me to tighten any of these or adjust the tone?

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