Set up an excluded investment fund
Set up an excluded investment fund Pool capital with a small group without registering a managed investment scheme. Registering a managed investment scheme is built for funds that offer themselves to the public, and the cost of it doesn’t shrink because your fund is small. A private group can often sit outside that regime instead. […]
Franchising your business concept
Franchising your business concept We build the agreement, the disclosure document and the brand protection before you sell the first franchise. Franchising is how a business grows on other people’s capital and effort, and the trade is that your brand is then operated every day by people you do not employ and cannot direct like […]
Raising capital for your enterprise
Raising capital for your enterprise We structure the raise so you stay inside the rules and keep the control you meant to keep. A capital raise is the point at which you stop owning all of it. The money is the visible part. The part that lasts is what you agreed to in order to […]
Legal support for your board
Legal support for your board We sit alongside the board as its lawyer, so the advice arrives before the decision rather than after it. Boards decide quickly, on incomplete information, about things that attach personally to the people around the table. A director’s duties are owed individually rather than collectively, and the consequence of getting […]
Local director services for international businesses
Local director services for international businesses We provide an Australian lawyer as your resident director, with the oversight the role actually requires. Australia requires a resident director, and the requirement is not satisfied by a name on a form. Whoever takes the role carries personal legal duties for a company being run from another country, […]
Partnership restructure and roll-overs
Partnership restructure and roll-overs We find the rollovers your restructure qualifies for, and order the steps so you actually get them. Most of the tax on a partnership restructure is optional. Not all of it, but most, and the part that is optional is lost by doing the steps in the wrong order rather than […]
Return of capital and share buy-backs
Return of capital and share buy-backs We pick the mechanism and run the process, so the payment reaches shareholders as capital rather than as a surprise dividend. Paying money out of a company to the people who own it sounds like a transfer. It is not. Whether the payment is treated as a return of […]
Protect your contractor licence from disqualification
Protect your contractor licence from disqualification We answer the Regulator’s notice properly, while the deadline is still open. A notice from NSW Fair Trading proposing to suspend, cancel or vary your contractors licence puts your right to trade in question. The deadline is short and the response you send is the case. Get the answer […]
Get your contractor licence back after disqualification
Get your contractor licence back after disqualification We prepare the reapplication as a case for why you are fit to hold the licence again. The disqualification has run and you want to work again. A reapplication after disqualification is not the standard form process. NSW Fair Trading starts from your history and asks whether you […]
Structure your medical practice and its service agreement
Structure your medical practice and its service agreement We document the arrangement between your practice and its doctors so their liability does not become yours. A practice that provides rooms, staff and systems to independent doctors is in a commercial relationship that needs writing down. Get it wrong and you can find yourself answering for […]