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 […]

Choose the right structure for a new venture

Choose the right structure for a new venture We tell you which structure fits your venture, and why, before you commit to one. You choose a structure once, early, usually in a hurry, and then run the business inside it for a decade. It decides who is personally on the hook if things go badly, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Entering a franchise agreement

Entering a franchise agreement We read the agreement properly and tell you what you are actually committing to. A franchise agreement is the only commercial contract most people sign that governs their working life for a decade. It sets what you can sell, where, at what price, who you have to buy from, what you […]