Mark Toohey

Current

• Director at Adroit People Pty Limited
• Founder and Director at Adroit Lawyers

Past

• Lawyer specialising in business, media and technology law at - Private Consulting
• General Counsel at Global Television Limited
• Solicitor at Henry Davis York

• Solicitor at Gadens Lawyers

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Education

• University of Melbourne
• Southern Cross University
• University of New England

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Industry

Law Practice

Mark Toohey’s Summary

In addition to acting for clients in the sale or purchase of their businesses, I’ve provided a lot of broad-ranging legal advice on employment contracts, distribution agreements, website development agreements and many other commercial aspects of running a company.

Services provided to ventures raising capital commonly involve: structuring the investment vehicle; incorporating companies; preparing information memorandums; holding investment funds on trust; drafting shareholder agreements and constitutions; engaging directors, executives and staff; as well as overseeing company secretarial compliance and procedures.

The ventures I’ve recently advised operated in the following sectors; solar technology; service industry franchise; ticketing website; new media production; pharmaceutical invention; robotics invention; incorporated legal practice; property development; bio-metric invention; super-fine wool products; medical software; executive recruitment; payroll management software; and website development.

I have worked closely with venture capital companies to develop projects in their investment portfolio and a number of my clients are COMET-grant recipients. I’ve also advised companies raising capital for mining ventures, childcare centres, advertising services, email encryption software, video conferencing and commercial fishing ventures.

My practical experience in website management and design means I revel in the opportunity to work with technology based clients (OK... I admit I am a geek at heart).

My other passion is business development and the drama of corporate strategy and business building. I can really relate to clients who are fast growing SMEs or those doing the hard yards of establishing and building a new business. That's exactly what we're also doing at Adroit Lawyers: we're walking the talk....

Visit my blog: www.accelawrate.com

Mark Toohey’s Specialties:

Shareholders Agreements, Sale of Business, Commercial Contracts, Terms of Trade, Employment Agreements, Business Structuring, IT Contracts, Website Design Agreements, Engineering Contracts, Service Contracts, Tenders and Company Secretarial.

Mark Toohey’s Experience

• Director

  Adroit People Pty Limited

  (Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

  July 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Recruitment company that specialises in the pharmaceutical, medical technologies, food/beverage, process and allied industries.

• Founder and Director

  Adroit Lawyers

  (Law Practice industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Lawyer specialising in business, media and technology law

  - Private Consulting

  (Law Practice industry)

  August 2007 — June 2008 (11 months)

  Advising a range of clients in the publishing, event management, IT and television industries including a major award-winning television production company.

• General Counsel

  Global Television Limited

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  December 1999 — August 2007 (7 years 9 months)

  General Counsel
  TV production contracts:
  • International Events – M2006 Commonwealth Games
  • Broadcasters - Nine, Ten, Seven, SBS, ABC, Fox Sports and Foxtel
  • Global TV and Seven Network JV
  • TV shows - Big Brother, Australian Idol, Neighbours, Hi-5 and Rove
  • Sports – NRL, AFL, Australian Grand Prix, Indie Cars, V8 Supercars
  • MTV , ARIAs, Logies and AFI Awards
  Broadcast engineering contracts:
  • IBC for M2006 Cth Games and FINA World Swimming Championships
  • Stadium AV - Olympic, MCG, Suncorp and Bruce Stadiums
  • Maintenance
  Advising:
  • independent directors - private equity takeover
  • managers - corporate, litigation, employment, visa, trade practices, IT and IP
  
  Company Secretary – Studio complex JV in Melbourne
  
  Worked with Chinese Embassy and CCTV to organize the 2006 China-Australia Media Forum attended by Minister of Information, Ambassador, over 50 of China’s most senior media figures and CEOs of Australia’s major television, radio and newspaper companies.

• Solicitor

  Henry Davis York

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year )

• Solicitor

  Gadens Lawyers

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

Mark Toohey’s Education

• University of Melbourne

  Grad Dip Finance Law , Post grad law , 1994 — 1995

• Southern Cross University

  LLB , Law (Honours) , 1993 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Research Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice

• University of New England

  B Bus , Banking/Finance , 1991 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Rep - Board of Studies - Faculty of Business and Computing

Additional Information

Mark Toohey’s Interests:

television production contracts, outside broadcasting, media and corporate law, new media, content development and production, digital photography (see my flickr portfolio), dancing (Latin, Ballroom and Tango), international travel, modern history (particularly Australian, Asian and WWII history), reading books (fiction and non-fiction), cinema (particularly Chinese and Italian cinema), current affairs, web development and computer programming.

Mark Toohey’s Groups:

Law Society of New South Wales, Society for Computers and the Law, Australian Space Industry Chamber of Commerce., Digital Producers Forum, Meet up, OpenCoffee Forum Sydney

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Australian New Media
•    ThoseinMedia
•    Friends of Australia
•    Small Business Advisers Network ( Australia )
•    The Group of Eight - represents Australia's leading universities.
•    Mobile TV
•    Australia Business and Professional Network
•    Sydney Media People
•    Media Production Forum
•    Sydney Film Industry Meetup Group
•    TV Production Forum
•    TiE CON Australia 2009

Mark Toohey’s Honors:

B Bus (Banking/Finance), LLB (Hons)
Grad Dip Finance Law
Grad Dip Legal Practice
Solicitor Supreme Court of New South Wales
Solicitor High Court of Australia
Licensed Migration Agent

Mark Toohey’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch