Commercial and business lawyers

SLB Legal is a Melbourne-based commercial and business law firm that helps business owners navigate their contracts and business transactions with clarity and confidence.

We enjoy working with our clients throughout their business journey. From business owners starting out and scaling, through to business restructuring, buying or selling, and exits. Our focus is on providing clear, practical legal advice that supports how a business actually and uniquely operates.

Tailored legal advice and support

Most business owners and founders come to us because something important is happening in their business.

That might be when they are:

  • starting a new business and needing the right legal foundations;
  • growing or scaling and outgrowing their existing contracts or negotiating a new big customer deal;
  • bringing in shareholders, partners or investors;
  • buying or selling a business (or part of it);
  • entering a new commercial or retail lease; or
  • restructuring or planning a future exit.

At SLB Legal, we do not take a one-size-fits-all approach to your business or the legal support we provide. We take the time to understand:

  • how your business operates;
  • where the individual commercial and legal risk sits; and 
  • what matters to you now and in the future.

This approach allows us to customise your contracts and legal advice to be proportionate, strategic and aligned with your unique business goals and service delivery.

Specialists in contracts and commercial transactions

SLB Legal specialises in the commercial legal work that underpins how a business runs and grows.

We regularly assist clients with the following (and much more):

  • Customer, supplier and service agreements;
  • Terms of trade, privacy policies and website/online terms;
  • IT agreements, software/SaaS licensing and master services agreements;
  • Business purchases and sales (asset sales and share sales/mergers and acquisitions);
  • Shareholders' agreements, partnerships and joint ventures;
  • Victorian commercial and retail leases;
  • Commercial negotiations and risk management; and
  • Ongoing contract and commercial law advice and support.

A practical approach

SLB Legal was founded by Sarah Burke, a commercial and business lawyer with over 10 years' experience advising business owners across a broad range of industries and commercial law issues.

Over the course of her legal career, Sarah noticed that unclear or impractical legal advice and templated contracts can confuse, slow decisions and expose a business to unnecessary risks. Sarah created SLB Legal to offer a more practical, grounded approach to commercial and business law. 

Sarah is known for being direct, approachable and commercially minded. Clients value her ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable advice that supports confident decision-making.

Contact SLB Legal

Whether you are growing your business, operating day-to-day or buying, selling or exiting a business, SLB Legal can provide you with the legal clarity and confidence to help you move forward.

Contact us today. Click here to send an enquiry or request a call back.

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