01 Business & Commercial
Advice that keeps business moving.
Practical commercial legal advice for Queensland businesses and owners, with a focus on clarity, momentum and commercially workable outcomes.
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Commercial Contracts
We draft and negotiate a very wide variety of commercial contractual documentation for our clients and work with them to resolve any disputes that may arise in relation to the commercial contracts they’ve entered into.
Relevant Services
- Trading terms/terms & conditions
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholder agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Commercialisation agreements
- Franchise agreements
- Employment agreements
- Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements
- Sale and purchase agreements
Property
We have expertise advising on a wide spectrum of real property matters, including commercial, residential and agribusiness conveyancing, property development, environment and planning issues, residential and commercial leasing and landlord and tenant disputes. Our experience in dealing with complicated legal issues arising from this process means we can deal with anything tricky that may come up.
Relevant Services
- Sales and purchases of commercial, residential, industrial and agribusiness property
- Community title developments
- Mixed-use and master planned developments
- Retail, commercial and industrial leasing
- Providing leasing solutions across national portfolios
- Resolution of lease disputes
Taxation Advice
Taxation is an ever-changing and complicated area of law. We regularly stay on top of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) developments to make sure we’re across all changes affecting our clients. We provide advice on tax matters related to state and federal taxes, structuring businesses and transactions for tax effectiveness, exemptions and other concessions, ATO audits and disputes and proactive risk management and resolution of tax errors.
Relevant Services
- Income tax and capital gains tax
- Goods and services tax
- Superannuation taxes
- State taxes including stamp duty, payroll tax and land tax across all Australian states and territories
- Corporate tax structuring, tax agreements and other matters including issues arising in mergers and acquisitions and other ownership change transactions
- Advising businesses on effective tax structuring of operations
- Advising on taxation implications of transactions including acquisitions and sales
Taxation Disputes
We advise high net worth individuals and small to medium sized businesses on ATO audits and disputes. Our service includes end-to-end management of the dispute process and preparing appeals to revenue authority rulings in the federal and state courts and tribunals.
Relevant Services
- Assisting clients in dealing with taxation audits and requests from taxation authorities for information
- Responding to position papers
- Drafting and review of tax objections
- Drafting and review of private binding rulings on proposed arrangements
- Representing clients in disputes with taxation authorities including the Australian Taxation Office and state revenue authorities
- Preparing appeals to the federal and state courts and tribunals including the Federal Court, Supreme Court, Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Queensland Civil & Administrative Tribunal
02 Transactions & Acquisitions
Confident deal execution.
Support for business sales, acquisitions, due diligence, negotiations and completion, with legal detail managed around your commercial priorities.
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Business/Share Sale & Purchase
We are experienced in helping clients with all aspects of the sale and purchase of businesses and shares. We apply careful planning, strategic negotiation and a pragmatic approach to ensure the smooth transfer of business ownership and assets.
Relevant Services
- Contractual due diligence
- Negotiations
- Preparation of sale & purchase documentation
- Assignments of leases
- Assignments of material contracts
- Licensing and permit transfers
- Conveyancing process through to settlement
- Post settlement actions
- Business sale & purchase disputes
03 Restructures & Insolvency
Clear thinking when the stakes are high.
Strategic advice for restructures, distressed transactions and stakeholder negotiations.
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Debt Recovery
When debt is owed to you or your business, engaging a debt recovery lawyer at the outset is advisable. We take the stress out of what can be a very frustrating and time intensive process for individuals and business owners by negotiating on behalf of our clients to facilitate the debt recovery process.
Relevant Services
- Advising on prospects and procedural options
- Drafting statutory demands and claims
- Conducting negotiations, where appropriate
- Instituting and conducting recovery proceedings including bankruptcy and winding up proceedings as well as enforcement procedures
- Enforcing judgments and securities
- Providing representation in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Magistrates’, District and Supreme Courts
Trusts & Structuring
We take a long term view of your personal and financial goals to recommend and set up the right legal structures for your businesses, investments and assets. Our advice includes preparing, establishing and amending trusts and other structures to fit your business, family and succession needs.
Relevant Services
- Advising on business structures and asset protection
- Incorporation and corporate governance
- Partnership Agreements
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Trusts (discretionary, unit, hybrid, charitable)
- Business Succession Planning
- Franchising Agreements
- Licensing Agreements
- Restructuring businesses in a tax and stamp duty effective manner to achieve succession planning objectives
04 Estate Planning & Succession
Protect what you have built.
Planning for continuity, control and succession across business and family structures.
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Estate & Succession Planning
Our estate planning services include working closely with you and your advisors to formulate strategies to protect your wealth and testamentary wishes while managing the complexities of family dynamics and relationships.
Relevant Services
- Preparing wills coupled with testamentary trusts
- Preparing enduring powers of attorney
- Preparing advance health directives
- Reviewing family structures to ensure that there is a smooth succession of family businesses, properties and other assets to the next generation and advising on strategies to deal with succession issues prior to death
- Nominations for superannuation binding death benefit
- Protective trusts for at risk or vulnerable beneficiaries
- Transferring control of trustees or trusts outside the estate
- Drafting business succession agreements (buy/sell agreements) for businesses with multiple owners/controllers
- Restructuring businesses in a tax and stamp duty effective manner to achieve succession planning objectives
- Reviewing and advising on transfer of trading companies, family trusts and self-managed superannuation funds
Estate Administration
The estate administration process can be a difficult one. We work closely with executors, beneficiaries and other parties involved and take the burden out of managing the legal aspects of the administration of deceased estates.
Relevant Services
- Executor duties and responsibilities
- Probate applications and letters of administration
- Distribution and collection of assets
- Intestate estates
- Rights of a Beneficiary
- Disputed wills and inheritance claims
- Advice about superannuation and taxation
Queensland Focused
Local context. Commercial perspective.
Queensland-focused legal advice grounded in practical commercial understanding, clear communication and responsive service.
Partners
Trusted professional relationships.
We work alongside aligned advisers to help clients execute coordinated legal and commercial strategies.
Insights
Practical legal insights.
Clear perspectives on issues affecting businesses, owners and families.
