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legalbg

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we provide comprehensive legal services for businesses and corporations, ranging from setting up a business to resolving disputes and everything in between. Our experienced team can assist you with a wide variety of commercial and business matters.

We understand the complex and ever-changing landscape of commercial law and can assist our clients with a wide variety of commercial and business matters, such as:

  • Setting up and restructuring businesses
  • Drafting confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
  • Negotiating and drafting loan agreements
  • Drafting client services agreements and business terms of trade
  • Advising on the sale and purchase of businesses
  • Drafting and reviewing commercial and retail leases
  • Drafting shareholder, unitholder, joint venture and partnership agreements
  • Negotiating and drafting all types of commercial agreements
  • Assisting with debt recovery and statutory demands
  • Representing clients in disputes and litigation

We provide comprehensive corporate advisory services to our clients helping them navigate the complex world of corporate governance and structuring. We can assist our clients with a wide range of matters, including:

  • Incorporation of companies
  • Dissolution of companies
  • Sales, purchases, and mergers and acquisitions
  • Creation of discretionary trusts, unit trusts and variations to trusts
  • Drafting and reviewing partnership agreements, shareholder agreements and joint venture agreements
  • Corporate obligations, company meetings and constitutions
  • Contract negotiation and review

In business, despite the best planning, disputes can arise. We understand the stress and complexity of such situations and can help our clients navigate the legal complexities of disputes. We specialise in all types of disputes, including:

  • Contract disputes
  • Misleading and deceptive conduct disputes
  • Consumer law disputes
  • Business and commercial disputes
  • Building and construction disputes
  • Retail leasing disputes
  • Intellectual property disputes
  • Debt recovery
  • Partnership, joint venture, shareholder, unitholder, and director disputes

Navigating employment law as an employer can be a tricky endeavour. We help our clients meet their obligations and promote a safe, effective and legally compliant workplace. We can assist our clients with a variety of employment law matters, including:

  • Drafting employment, contractor, director and personal services agreements
  • Ensuring compliance with modern awards and staff entitlements
  • Adhering to National Employment Standards
  • Managing employee termination, unfair dismissal, notice periods and other provisions of the Fair Work Act
  • Protection of commercial and trade secrets (e.g. confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements)
  • Preservation of intellectual property and proprietary materials
  • Developing staff manuals, business policies and codes of conduct

We provide efficient and compliant advisory, certification and transactional services to all aspects of funds management, including establishment, development, structuring and commercial transactions.

We specialise in advising on the entire life cycle of investment funds from obtaining and advising on issues associated with Australian financial services (AFS) licensing, fund structuring, disclosure documents, debt finance, acquisitions and exit strategies. We can help you with things like:

  • AFS licensing, including applications and variations
  • Retail and wholesale managed investment scheme establishment and structuring
  • Scheme regulation and compliance
  • Disclosure documents, including product disclosure statements, information memoranda and due diligence and sign off; and more

IP is an integral part of any business, and ensuring IP is sufficiently protected and enforced gives business owners peace of mind while building valuable brand equity. We assist our clients with identifying, registering, protecting and enforcing IP in both Australia and internationally.

We help our clients with a range of intellectual property needs, including:

  • Trade mark availability, including undertaking comprehensive searches of proposed trade marks
  • Trade mark registration and protection in Australia
  • Corresponding with IP Australia
  • Trade mark monitoring and watch services
  • Trade mark infringement
  • IP structuring and development agreements
  • IP licensing and assignment
  • IP disputes and litigation; and more

Minimising the use of litigation through effective dispute resolution methods should be a focus, but where litigation is inevitable, we are here to assist our clients to navigate through the process as cost effectively and efficiently as possible. Our team has extensive experience in litigation in both state and federal jurisdictions, both through the courts and tribunals.

We can help our clients with things like:

  • Contract disputes and enforcement
  • Debt recovery and insolvency
  • Property disputes
  • Shareholder, director and partnership disputes
  • Workplace disputes

We understand that buying, selling or leasing property can be stressful and requires careful consideration. We assist our clients with a range of property matters, including:

  • Residential conveyancing
  • Commercial conveyancing
  • Due diligence and acquisitions
  • Development transactions
  • Contracts
  • Subdivision and development
  • Other types of property transactions
  • Leasing

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