A legal service that speaks your language

The focus of our legal service is to provide advice with a practical focus, reliable delivery and flexible approach.
These broadly include both comprehensive commercial legal services for every aspect of business, company and commercial transactions as well as general legal matters (such as wills, estate planning and family law). As lawyers with just as much experience in the commercial sector as the legal field, we understand the real world and can empathise with the every day demands of business and corporate life.

You have direct access to our principal solicitor – you don’t have to battle your way through a maze of clerks and junior lawyers. And you always have a choice about which solicitor you work with.

If there are areas you require assistance with that are not listed below please contact us. We may be able to help and if not we will immediately refer you to a relevant expert in that field.

Whether you are an individual, a small business, or a large corporate entity, we look forward to working with you and providing you with an outstanding level of legal service.

Business & Commercial Law

• Contract drafting, negotiation, interpretation and review
• Business structuring
• Start-up ventures, Joint Ventures
• International Trade Law
  
• Information Memorandums (preparation and advice)
• Intellectual Property – trademarks, patents, development and licensing arrangements
• Professional Negligence
• Trust Deeds
• Trade Practices Insolvency/Debt Recovery

Conveyancing & Property Law

• Commercial leases
• Sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties
• Development contracts
• Body Corporate law
• Management Rights
• Strata Title & Body Corporate (establishment and compliance)

Corporate Law & Regulatory Compliance

• Director duties, corporate governance and general compliance
• Registration of companies
• Preparation of Constitutions
• Corporate re-structuring
• Capital raising and Corporate finance
• Shareholder & Director agreements
• ASX, ASIC, ATO & ACCC compliance, liaison and client representation
• Winding up and insolvency

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Commercial disputes
• Leasing disputes
• Court proceedings
• Partnership & Corporate disputes
• Trade Practices Act claims
• Insolvency & bankruptcy
• Building disputes

Employment Law

• Employment Agreements (negotiation and drafting)
• Litigation (enforcement of restraint of trade and confidentiality clauses)
• Drafting of workplace policies and procedures
• Management of and advice on employee termination
• Representation in unfair and unlawful dismissal proceedings

Franchising

• Preparation and review of franchise documents
• Advice on franchise arrangements (franchisors and franchisees)
• Franchise disputes

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Conduct and management of due diligence processes
• Private and public mergers and acquisitions
• Advice of ASX Listing Rules
• Preparation and negotiation of sale and purchase of business agreements
• Evaluation of proposed merger and acquisition arrangements
• Preparation of Information Memorandums

Finance, Capital Raising, Loan Security Documents

• Preparation of and advice on all forms of security including Loan Agreements, Charges and Mortgages
• Advice on lending and security rights, obligations and responsibilities
• Information Memorandums
• Investor Presentations
• Representation in disputes regarding loans and debt and security recovery

Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning, Powers of Attorney

• Wills and Powers of Attorney (Preparation and advice)
• Will Contests
• Probate & Administration

Building Contracts & Disputes

• Building and Construction Industry Claims and Disputes
• Recovery and enforcement of claims and charges
• Advice on home building contract and home warranty insurance claims

Legal Audits & Due Diligence

• Review of existing legal compliance, reporting and management systems
• Advice on the management and mitigation of legal risk
• Project management of due diligence processes and conduct of and reporting on legal and management due diligence

General Legal Matters

• Court representation in all Australian Courts and Tribunals

Corporate Criminal & ASIC Civil Penalty Matters

Advice to and representation of directors and officers of companies including, but not limited to, the following areas:

• ASIC investigations and examinations
• Public examinations by liquidators
• Court proceedings brought by ASIC in all jurisdictions involving criminal allegations and/or civil penalty provisions
• Defence of directors and officers in class action legal proceedings

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