Julia Adams

Shiff & Company is a fast growing, multi-faceted firm that services a wide range of commercial, entrepreneurial and creative businesses, as well as private clients and not-for-profit organisations.

We invest in building long-term relationships with our business and private clients. Many of our private clients are business owners and professionals. We invest in getting to know the way our clients conduct their businesses and their particular requirements of us. This enables us to tailor our advice and services to reflect our clients’ desired outcomes.

We pride ourselves on being commercially-minded lawyers who provide “real world” practical advice.

Legal services are provided in the following areas:

• Mergers and acquisitions• Banking & finance• Building & construction• Business services• Corporate law & governance• Real estate transactions• Employment law• Entertainment & media• Technology & telecommunications• Estate planning, wills & estates• Family & relationship law• Franchising• Insolvency & reconstruction• Intellectual property• Litigation & dispute resolution• Not-for-profits & charities

Our team is well balanced in age, gender and experience. Our firm culture is to be creative, approachable, results-focussed and mutually supportive.

Our lawyers are highly qualified and work across more than one area of practice. This means our clients enjoy continuity of service from familiar faces with depth of experience on a wide range of matters. We enjoy working on the cutting edge, with challenging, entrepreneurial clients.

Above all, we are friendly and approachable and revel in being team players, both with our clients and with each other.

Julia is a commercial and intellectual property lawyer, with a diverse range of commercial and creative clients.

Julia advises clients in relation to business structuring, corporate governance, succession planning, sale and purchase of companies and businesses, due diligence, establishing not-for-profit organisations, licensing, and intellectual property including local and international trade mark registration.

Julia is also a highly-experienced practitioner in complex estate planning matters.

Although Julia’s practice includes a wide range of business and private client matters, a significant number of her clients are television, film and digital media producers. Performing a dual role as lawyer and business affairs advisor, she advises in relation to the developing, financing, producing and exploiting of their projects – films, television series, apps, website, software – including licensing, merchandising and distribution.

Julia works with producers in all areas including feature film and documentary, and she has a particular interest and experience in television, animation and digital media.

Julia has been with Shiff & Company since its inception.