Com­mer­cial

We can help you to decide whether to invest in a busi­ness on your own or by using a com­pa­ny, a unit trust, a dis­cre­tionary trust, a joint ven­ture or a part­ner­ship. What­ev­er struc­ture you decide is best for you, we’ll help you to doc­u­ment and imple­ment it, keep­ing a close eye on the pro­tec­tion of your assets and interests.

If you’re going into busi­ness with oth­er par­ties, we can cre­ate an appro­pri­ate agree­ment which sets out the rules to cov­er the full range of con­tin­gen­cies in that busi­ness rela­tion­ship. This cov­ers for exam­ple how to pro­ceed if one par­ty wants to sell, what hap­pens if one par­ty gets divorced or dies, arrange­ments for pay­ment of expens­es and cap­i­tal and pro­ce­dures for resolv­ing dis­putes between busi­ness partners.

Once your busi­ness is up and run­ning, we can offer you advice on any aspect of your busi­ness. This includes intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty mat­ters, tax, pur­chase or lease of busi­ness premis­es and employ­ment of staff or con­trac­tors. So we’ll nev­er leave you in the lurch. As your busi­ness part­ners and trust­ed advis­ers, we’ll always be just a phone call away.

Exper­tise

• Advice on invest­ment in real estate, retail, tech­nol­o­gy and project businesses
• Estab­lish­ment of new companies
• Busi­ness and trans­ac­tion struc­tures (includ­ing merg­ers and acquisitions)
• Buy­ing and sell­ing businesses
• Busi­ness due diligence
• Own­er­ship struc­tures for asset protection
• Per­son­al Prop­er­ty Secu­ri­ties Reg­is­ter (PPSR)
• Char­i­ties & Not-For-Prof­it (NFP) advice
• Part­ner­ship agreements
• Joint ven­ture agreements
• Ten­an­cy in com­mon agreements
• Pur­chase or lease of busi­ness premises
• Involve­ment of addi­tion­al investors
• Con­sul­tan­cy agreements
• Dis­trib­u­tor­ship agreements
• Employ­ment of staff and contractors
• HR advice
• Intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty advice
• Adver­tis­ing, spon­sor­ship and mar­ket­ing rights
• Cap­i­tal gains tax advice
• Fran­chise agree­ments, gen­er­al fran­chise law and fran­chis­ing advice
• Prod­uct devel­op­ment, inven­tion, man­u­fac­ture and delivery
• Prod­uct licences
• Trade Prac­tices Act advice, includ­ing restric­tive trade prac­tices, resale price main­te­nance and refusal to supply
• Share­hold­er agreements
• Ser­vice agreements
• Strate­gic alliances
• Gen­er­al com­mer­cial advice
• Com­mer­cial lending
• Prop­er­ty Finance
• Equip­ment Finance
• Trade & Receiv­ables Finance
• Advis­ing bor­row­ers / guar­an­tors in finance matters

Use­ful Links

• Aus­tralian Secu­ri­ties & Invest­ments Com­mis­sion (ASIC)
• Aus­tralian Busi­ness Reg­is­ter (ABR)
• Aus­tralian Tax­a­tion Office (ATO) Busi­ness Portal