We are a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.
We can assist you with:
Business and Investment Structures
- Setting up business structures, including Partnerships, Companies and Trusts
- Setting up investment structures, including Trusts and Self-Managed Super Funds
- Assisting with the franchising of a business concept
- Implementing comprehensive Shareholder Agreements, Unit Holder Agreements and Constitutions
- Setting up structures for collective investments, including Units Trusts, Unregulated Managed Investment Schemes and Regulated MISs
- Providing advice and implementing strategies to protect accumulated wealth and business assets from unjust claims
Business sales and acquisitions
- Acting for people buying and selling businesses (ranging from small family businesses to medium sized enterprises)
- Acting for people buying into a business, or selling equity to an employee or outsider
Trading Structures
- Implementing Standard Trading Terms & Conditions (including privacy issues, trading references, guarantees, etc)
- Drafting tailored commercial agreements, including specialised ‘one off’ type agreements
- Drafting and advising on loans and structured (and securitised) financing arrangements
- Implementing debt collection procedures, and other ‘cash acceleration’ strategies
Employment law
- Preparation of employment contracts and other bespoke specific work agreements, policies, procedures and employee handbooks
- Reviewing and advising on workplace arrangements, including acting on workplace restructures and Modern Awards
- Assisting with matters relating to employee misconduct, performance issues, underpayment and unfair dismissal claims, termination and workplace complaints
- Assisting with carrying out workplace investigations relating to serious employee misconduct
- Representation in the Fair Work Commission, Federal Court, the Fair Work Ombudsman and the Australian Human Rights Commission
Estate & Business Succession Planning
- Preparing Wills and implementing more complex Estate Planning strategies
- Implementing Business Succession strategies, including Buy-Sell Agreements (funded and unfunded)
- Assisting people make a claim under a Will for an adequate share of the Estate assets (i.e. challenging a Will)
- Acting for Executors and Trustees of Wills to deal with claims for adequate provision
Property and Conveyancing
- Providing conveyancing services to people buying and selling real estate, including reviewing contracts, and providing associated GST advice
- Preparing and reviewing Commercial Leases
- Preparing Land Holding Agreements (including simple Joint Ownership Agreements)
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
- Assistance with all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency
- Corporate reconstructions
- Complete small business advisory service, including director duties and liabilities, and personal liability for taxation debts
Disputes
- Acting for people in commercial disputes with third parties
- Acting for people in commercial disputes with their business partners
- Acting for people in a dispute with the Tax Office and other revenue authorities, including handling audits, objections and appeals
Taxation Law and Tax Disputes
- Acting for people with significant tax debts to manage their situation with the Tax Office
- Providing technical tax advice on complex tax and superannuation laws
Not for Profits
- Advising on and setting up legal structures
- Preparing tailored governing documents to maximise opportunities to access funding
- Obtain and maintain charity registrations
- Registering NFPs with government bodies for tax purposes
If you would like to speak to one of our experienced lawyers about getting started in any one of these areas, call us on 1300 654 590 or email us.
The information contained in this post is current at the date of editing – 5 November 2021.