Seftcorp Law offers professional and pragmatic legal services in a range of areas including:
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How We Work
Seftcorp Law is a boutique corporate and commercial practice established in 2015, with a particular focus on:
Professionalism
We maintain the highest standards of professional conduct in the practice of law at all time.
Commercial Awareness
We take the time to understand your commercial ‘drivers’ and the commercial framework for the work at hand, applying the broad commercial experience of the principal of Seftcorp Law, Grant Sefton. We aim to ensure our work for you is thoroughly consistent with those drivers and that framework.
Flexibility
We realise that all businesses are different and that you require a unique solution to your legal problems. We ensure that we adopt a flexible approach, so that our solutions fit your circumstances.
Accessibility
We understand that business issues often require prompt and decisive support from legal advisers. We are committed to always being accessible. We have invested in the latest technology to ensure that accessibility is maintained to the highest standards at all time and under all circumstances.
Openness
We welcome and encourage an open and regular dialogue with you on all aspects of the professional relationship, including discussion on professional fees, scope of work and quality of our service.
Responsiveness
Being a boutique practice, we have no need to adopt a rigid approach to the way we provide our services. We welcome discussion with you on more innovative ways in which we provide our services and charge for our professional time. We also understand that sometimes circumstances can change quickly within your organisation, and our professional services need to be responsive to those changes. We are happy to have meetings with you at your place of business or to travel to other locations, and we do not charge our full professional rates for travel time.
Co-operation
We understand that you may retain other professionals to assist your business and, when appropriate, we will work closely with those professionals to ensure there is a coordinated solution to your legal and other requirements. In circumstances where the work is referred to us by another professional, we understand the importance of recognising how we fit in to the picture when we are advising your clients. We seek to work with you.
Value-adding
We look for innovative ways in which we can add value to your business, such as passing on information that we consider may be of interest to you, or introducing you (if you wish) to people who we consider may be able to add further value to your business.
If you have any queries on how we work, please do not hesitate to contact our principal, Grant Sefton.
About
The principal of Seftcorp Law, Grant Sefton, is an experienced practitioner in corporate and commercial law
at a national and international level, having had in excess of over 40 years experience in these fields
in Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne. His clients include a host of leading public and private sector
clients throughout Australia.
Grant Sefton
Principal, Seftcorp Law
Professional Memberships & Community Participation:
- Hunter iF - immediate past Chair
- Hunter Angels – immediate past Chair, director, investor
- IR Global - Alumni member, until 2021 Australian representative for Commercial Law, past member of its commercial law and Asia-Pacific committees
- Law Society of New South Wales – Member
- Newcastle Business Club – Member
- Newcastle Law Society – Member
- Adamstown Rosebud Tennis Club – immediate past President, member of the committee
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Economics – University of Sydney
Admissions as a Solicitor
New South Wales – 1980Victoria – 1987
LinkedIn profile:
Grant was until 2015 a founding partner of the Newcastle office of national legal firm Moray & Agnew Lawyers, where he was national coordinator of its commercial law practice. Seftcorp Law is now a consultant to Moray & Agnew.
From 1990 Grant was partner-in-charge of the corporate and commercial practice of Hunt & Hunt in Newcastle, assisting to develop that practice into one of the larger corporate and commercial practices in the Hunter Valley. In 2006 he joined two other equity partners to establish the Newcastle office of Moray & Agnew.
After graduating in economics and law from University of Sydney, Grant commenced his career as a sales engineer and then corporate solicitor with Alcoa at the time of the construction of the Portland Aluminium Smelter, which was then one of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia. These roles provided him with experience in the practical aspects of the commercial world and exposure to corporate and commercial law at national and international level.
Grant also worked as legal counsel for CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto), where he provided legal advice across a variety of areas including biotechnology, aluminium and resources.
Throughout his career, Grant has had significant involvement in legal matters that involved a range of commercial factors plus national and global corporate law considerations.
Grant acts for a wide range of large and smaller corporations and public institutions across a wide range of industries. He has a particular focus in:
From 1990 Grant was partner-in-charge of the corporate and commercial practice of Hunt & Hunt in Newcastle, assisting to develop that practice into one of the larger corporate and commercial practices in the Hunter Valley. In 2006 he joined two other equity partners to establish the Newcastle office of Moray & Agnew.
After graduating in economics and law from University of Sydney, Grant commenced his career as a sales engineer and then corporate solicitor with Alcoa at the time of the construction of the Portland Aluminium Smelter, which was then one of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia. These roles provided him with experience in the practical aspects of the commercial world and exposure to corporate and commercial law at national and international level.
Grant also worked as legal counsel for CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto), where he provided legal advice across a variety of areas including biotechnology, aluminium and resources.
Throughout his career, Grant has had significant involvement in legal matters that involved a range of commercial factors plus national and global corporate law considerations.
Grant acts for a wide range of large and smaller corporations and public institutions across a wide range of industries. He has a particular focus in:
- Capital Raisings
- Corporate and Commercial law
- Commercial Contracts
- Information Technology
- Innovation Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Dealmaking and Transactions
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers & Acquisitions
For over eight years, until 2021, Grant was the sole Australian ‘commercial law’ member of IR Global, one of the largest professional service firm networks in the world. Members provide legal, accountancy and financial advice to companies and individuals across 155 jurisdictions. He is now an alumni member. Grant previously served on the international steering committees for its ‘Deal Makers’, ‘Commercial Law’ and 'Asia-Pacific' groups. Regular attendance at IR Global conferences held throughout the world has equipped Grant with important international contacts and contemporary knowledge on international legal and other issues.
For many years Grant has been active in industry and community bodies in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. He is a past Chair of Hunter iF, a not-for-profit support incubator to encourage and facilitate investment, jobs and growth in the Hunter region. It does this by providing a hub for innovation in the Hunter through a comprehensive, connected and cohesive package of services, programs and opportunities.
He is also immediate past Chair and a founding director of Hunter Angels, which facilitates investment in start-up and early stage innovative enterprises, and is an experienced ‘angel’ investor.
Grant was previously the Chairman and a long-standing director of Hunter Export Centre, a not-for-profit network of exporters, Government instrumentalities and international service providers based in the Hunter Valley, Australia. He was also a past President and committee member of Newcastle Business Club.
Grant is also a past President of Adamstown Rosebud Tennis Club.
For many years Grant has been active in industry and community bodies in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. He is a past Chair of Hunter iF, a not-for-profit support incubator to encourage and facilitate investment, jobs and growth in the Hunter region. It does this by providing a hub for innovation in the Hunter through a comprehensive, connected and cohesive package of services, programs and opportunities.
He is also immediate past Chair and a founding director of Hunter Angels, which facilitates investment in start-up and early stage innovative enterprises, and is an experienced ‘angel’ investor.
Grant was previously the Chairman and a long-standing director of Hunter Export Centre, a not-for-profit network of exporters, Government instrumentalities and international service providers based in the Hunter Valley, Australia. He was also a past President and committee member of Newcastle Business Club.
Grant is also a past President of Adamstown Rosebud Tennis Club.