Commercial & corporate

Commercial & corporate

Our legal services encompass all areas of business and commercial law from drafting documents to advising on the full range of commercial law matters that SMEs and individuals regularly face.

  • Business structuring
    Sole traders, proprietary companies, public companies, discretionary, unit and hybrid
    trusts, joint ventures and partnerships

  • Capital raising
    Information memoranda, prospectuses, financial licensing and Corporations Act

  • Co-owner agreements
    Joint venture, partnership and shareholders’ agreements

  • Company law
    Directors’ duties, shareholder rights, administration and liquidation

  • Confidentiality
    Non-circumvention, exclusive negotiation and due diligence agreements” to “Non-disclosure, non-circumvention, and exclusive negotiation agreements

  • Contracts
    Terms of trade, loans, securities, and the supply, distribution, manufacturing, and/or
    importation of goods and/or services

  • Due diligence investigations

  • Employment law
    Service, independent contractor and consulting agreements

  • Personal property securities
    Registration and searches

  • Dealing with Regulators
    e.g., Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian
    Competition And Consumer Commission (ACCC), Security Licensing & Enforcement
    Directorate of the New South Wales Police (SLED) and similar bodies on your behalf

  • Business Sale & purchase
    Companies and/or business assets

Litigation & dispute resolution

Litigation & dispute resolution

We provide balanced, practical and cost-effective solutions through advice on your legal position and options; alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration); or as a last resort, through conducting litigation in the Supreme and Federal Courts through to the District Court, Local Court and NCAT:

  • Administrative appeals
  • Building and construction
  • Consumer guarantees & rights
  • Contractual disputes
  • Debt recovery actions and enforcement including writs, garnishment and winding up and bankruptcy notices and proceedings
  • Defamation
  • Economic tort (e.g. injurious falsehood, interference with contractual relations)
  • Employment
  • Equitable remedies such as injunctions, declarations, and restitution
  • Family provision (i.e., inheritance) disputes
  • Fraud
  • Guardianship tribunal
  • Infringement of intellectual property rights
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance claims
  • Misleading & deceptive conduct, misrepresentation
  • Partnership, shareholder and joint venture disputes
  • Professional negligence – medical, accountancy, auditors and lawyers
  • Real estate disputes
  • Restraints of trade
  • Statutory licensing disputes

Intellectual property

Intellectual property

A real growth area, every business needs to be on top of all aspects of IP. The value of your business and its assets will be enhanced with our expert advice and services in this area.

  • Advising on all forms of intellectual property - copyright, trade marks, patents, designs, and trade secrets

  • Cease and desist letters

  • Commercialisation of intellectual property

  • Customs notices

  • Entertainment law – including film and television, music, books, multimedia, web and mobile apps

  • Infringement of intellectual property

  • Information Technology (IT) – software development, software licensing, maintenance and support, escrow, hosting, website use, and privacy agreements

  • Licensing & franchising

  • Registering trademarks

Real property

Real property

There is a lot more to property law than just conveyancing. From financing, to zoning, to environmental, to strata: much could impact your property sale or purchase.

  • Caveats
  • Contracts for off-the-plan sales
  • Conveyancing – vendor and purchaser
  • Covenants
  • Development – councils, builders
  • Easements
  • Leases – Commercial and Retail
  • Mortgages
  • Strata title and community title
  • Subdivisions

Wills, estate planning & administration

Wills, estate planning & administration

We all have to plan for the inevitable. And you are able to protect your and your family’s interests and cater for their needs through various means – during and beyond the end of your life. Whether you require a will, estate planning or administration, or need advice on guardianship: we assist you with understanding, sensibility and respect.

  • Estate planning
  • Family provision
  • Guardianship
  • Incapacity
  • Informal wills
  • Intestacy
  • Powers of attorney
  • Probate and estate administration
  • Wills and codicils