Australia’s new AML/CTF rules: what changes from 1 July 2026
If you have engaged a lawyer, accountant, conveyancer or real estate agent recently, you may already have been asked for more identification than usual. From 1 July 2026, those asks become standard practice across the profession. Your advisers will need to verify who you are. They will also ask about the source of funds in […]
License your software to your customers
License your software to your customers Your software reaches people you will never meet, on terms you write once. Every customer who uses your software is using it on terms somebody wrote. If that is a template you found, or an order form with nothing behind it, the terms are working against you in the […]
Take action against someone misusing your IP
Take action against someone misusing your IP Someone is using your work, and what you do next decides whether that stops. You have seen it: your design, your name, your material, being used by someone who never asked. The first question isn’t whether it is unfair, it is what right you actually hold and how […]
Issuing a convertible note to raise capital
Issuing a convertible note to raise capital Raise capital now without setting a price on your business yet. An investor is ready and you are not ready to name a price. A convertible note is the instrument that resolves that: money in now, equity later, at a valuation set by a round you have not […]
License your intellectual property to someone else
License your intellectual property to someone else Let someone else use what you made, on terms you set. Someone wants to use something you created, and they are willing to pay for it. A licence is how you say yes without giving it away: what they may do with it, where, for how long, and […]
Register a trade mark to protect your brand
Register a trade mark to protect your brand Registering your business name isn’t the same as owning it. Registering a business name gives you the right to trade under it. It does not stop anyone else using it, and neither does owning the domain. A registered trade mark is the only one of the three […]
Keep commercial discussions confidential
Keep commercial discussions confidential You cannot unshare information, so the agreement has to come first. There is a conversation you need to have, and it involves telling someone outside your business something you would not want repeated. A confidentiality agreement is what makes that conversation safe to have: what is protected, what they may use […]
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 […]