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 […]
Trading terms and conditions
Category name Heading 1 Grunt line The situation What we do Why better Speak to a lawyer What is estate planning and why does it matter? Estate planning is the process of arranging how your assets — property, superannuation, investments, and personal belongings — will be managed and distributed after your death or if you […]
General commercial legal advice
Run and manage your business General commercial legal advice Get clear, practical commercial legal advice when your business needs it. Running a business means confronting legal questions that don’t always fit neatly into a single category. A contract issue, a regulatory question, a dispute with a supplier, or a question about your obligations can arise […]
Restructure a business that has outgrown its structure
Restructure a business that has outgrown its structure We tell you what your current structure is costing you, and what the move would cost to make. Structures get built for the business that exists on the day they are chosen. Businesses then change: a partner joins, a second trading line appears, the value moves from […]
Contract review and specialist advice
Category name Heading 1 Grunt line The situation What we do Why better Speak to a lawyer What is estate planning and why does it matter? Estate planning is the process of arranging how your assets — property, superannuation, investments, and personal belongings — will be managed and distributed after your death or if you […]
Shareholders agreements and owners agreements
Shareholders agreements and owners agreements We get the hard questions answered and written down while everybody still agrees. People go into business together on the strength of getting on, and that works right up until somebody wants out, or the business has a bad year, or one owner starts to feel they are carrying the […]
Procurement contracts and service agreements
Category name Heading 1 Grunt line The situation What we do Why better Speak to a lawyer What is estate planning and why does it matter? Estate planning is the process of arranging how your assets — property, superannuation, investments, and personal belongings — will be managed and distributed after your death or if you […]