Our operations support legal, financial, and strategic advisory services for health businesses include:

• End-to-end practice management support.
• Client contracting, negotiation support, pricing and services optimisation, customer relationships management support (including CRM systems)
• Strategic business planning and management, including mentoring and management coaching
• Leasing and commercial property acquisitions and sale
• Business premises licensing
• AHPRA registration and accreditation
• Career progression and qualification strategic support
• Supplier contracting and management.
• Debtor management, debt recovery, credit applications and contractual debt management, and disputes
• Client/customer complaints handling support, including policy design and staff training
• Physical asset and inventory management support, including insurance and PPSR security interest management
• Export market intelligence and distribution/manufacturing/ customer connections
• Business succession planning and transition management
• Key man/business lead insurance protection, wills & estates, family law support

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Our health records, privacy, data, and confidential information experts provide services tailored for allied health businesses including the following:

• Health records management compliance
• Medicare and My Health Records information management and compliance
• Reporting and record keeping compliance
• Transition support services.
• Tracking and targeting web and social media marketing strategy and compliance
• Privacy policies, data breach policy and procedure,
• Collection statements, mailing lists, eDMs, phone and SMS marketing, and CRM management SPAM Act compliance
• Complete compliance advice and audits (including re systems and programs)
• Data breach crisis management, communications and PR support as well as regulatory investigations.
• Data and metadata use, collection, and sale
• Confidential information and trade secret protection (including NDA templates, confidentiality notices, and other tools)
• IT and data security systems audits, compliance and risk management advice
• AWS and cloud storage risk and compliance, including cross-border disclosure
• Data and IT services-specific insurance policy connections
• Privacy complaints, non-compliance, and investigations handling

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Our IP & brand protection legal and strategic advisory services tailored for your health business include:

• Worldwide patent protection
• Medical patent manufacturing rights and licensing
• Trade mark registration, prosecution, opposition, dispute resolution, and related advice
• Copyright and confidential information/trade secret protection
• Registered designs
• Trade secret/confidential information protection
• Franchising, IP licensing and sale transactions
• International IP portfolio management
• Business structuring for IP asset protection
• Marketing (local and international) strategy
• Brand strategy, design, and creative services support
• Supplier and manufacturer contracting and connections
• Logistics (warehousing, shipping, packing, etc) strategy and contracting

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Our structuring and investment legal, financial, and professional advisory services tailored for your health business include:

• Effective business structuring for asset and risk protection
• Transaction support for sale of business/assets, private capital raising, and M&A
• Initial public offering (IPO) and publicly-traded company corporate compliance
• Support in identifying and connecting with potential investors and purchasers
• Connections with accelerator and incubator programs specialising in allied health and health tech businesses
• Strategy and support around applications for and use of public funds and grants programs, including via industry-specific funding bodies
• Business succession planning and transition management
• Key man/business lead insurance protection, wills & estates, family law support

*Note that Universal Counsel does not itself provide financial products, services, or advice but that the UC Network Model allows us to connect our clients with licensed and qualified advisors and agents in this space for combined expertise solutions designed to make your life easier.

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Our employment, recruitment, OH&S, industrial relations and work force management experts provide a range of services tailored for your health & beauty business, including:

• Employee recruitment support
• Workforce structuring and optimisation strategic support
• Off-shore outsourcing and international recruitment, international workforce management and compliance
• Employment contracting (including tailored templates)
• Award, Fair Work Act, EBA and other key requirement compliance
• Entitlement compliance and accounting support, including long service leave, overtime, and casual loading
• Superannuation, Payroll Tax, PAY-G and other financial and tax compliance regarding employees and contractors
• Workplace harassment, bullying, theft, fraud, and other misconduct management
• Workplace investigations
• Redundancies and restructuring
• Transaction and restructure support, including due diligence and transition of employees
• Performance management and termination
• Executive coaching and management support
• Unfair dismissal, general protections, discrimination, bullying and other employee actions, including mediation and litigation support
• OH&S compliance, including WorkSafe investigations and litigation, insurance and related compliance obligations

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Our risk & claims legal and technical expert services tailored for your health & beauty business include:

• Product safety and recall policy, procedure, compliance and crisis-management
• OH&S compliance, reporting, auditing, investigations, and claims
• Serious injury reporting and liability management
• Customs compliance and negotiations
• Insurance coverage reviews and risk audits
• Alternative paths to market and strategic advice
• Competition law compliance, including resale price maintenance, price-fixing, misuse of market power, and exclusive dealing
• Consumer law compliance, including consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms, product safety and information standards, and misleading/deceptive conduct
• Business succession planning and transition management
• Business structuring for risk mitigation and asset protection
• Debtor and creditor management support, including debt collection and contractual drafting for risk mitigation
• Negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation end-to-end support for effective dispute resolution
• Discovery, deposition, subpoenas, expert evidence, and other court and civil procedure matters
• Key man/business lead insurance protection, wills & estates, family law support

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Our legal, financial, and strategic advisory experts can provide finance, accounting, and tax services tailored for your health business, including:

• Research & Development (R&D) grants and tax treatment
• Day-to-day accounts and book-keeping support
• Strategic tax structuring advice
• Tax regulatory compliance and dispute resolution support
• Import/export taxation compliance, including     GST and withholding
• Director's guarantees, liability, and personal asset protection strategy as part of business structuring
• Restructuring, debt management, insolvency, administration and receiverships, statutory demands, arrangements with creditors
• Debtor management, debt recovery, credit applications and contractual debt management, and disputes
• Loans and finance risk management
• Transactional structuring for capital gains optimisation
• Stamp duty and state tax compliance
• Strategy and support around applications for and use of public funds and grants programs, including via industry-specific funding bodies

*Note that Universal Counsel does not itself provide financial products, services, or advice but that the UC Network Model allows us to connect our clients with licensed and qualified advisors and agents in this space for combined expertise solutions designed to make your life easier.

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