BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL
Our business and commercial lawyers provide comprehensive advice to our commercial clients. Our business clients range from individuals and families to large companies trading internationally. We are regularly advising our business clients involved in:
- buying and selling businesses, companies and other investment vehicles
- financing business entities
- structuring suitable business entities including companies, joint ventures, partnerships, trading trusts and franchises
- distribution, agency and supply agreements
- franchising (acting for both franchisors and franchisees)
- commercial joint ventures and partnerships
- licensing arrangements
- Commerce Act, restrictive trade practices and competition law including competition restraints
- terms of trade
- employment matters (including employment contracts, and the management of personal grievance, redundancy and dismissal issues, personal restraint of trade and confidentiality information matters)
- intellectual property (including trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, confidentiality issues and intellectual property licensing arrangements and infringement)
- commercial contracts of various kinds
PROPERTY
Our property lawyers have extensive experience acting for private and business clients in residential, commercial / industrial and rural property and in property development work.
Residential Property
We provide a comprehensive service to assist our clients buying and selling residential property. We
do not provide cut-price conveyancing services. We have chosen to provide a high quality full service
for our clients in respect of residential property needs including:
- buying and selling
- financing and refinancing
- unit and cross lease title developments
- tax effective ownership structures and Property Sharing Agreements
- asset protection and ownership structuring
Commercial / Industrial Property
We act in many commercial / industrial property transactions. Our work includes:
- buying and selling
- financing and refinancing
- leasing - commercial, industrial and retail
- investment structures including joint ventures
- advice concerning taxation and GST implications in commercial property dealing
Rural Property
Our rural property services include:
- buying and selling farms and horticultural blocks
- financing and refinancing
- ownership structures and property sharing agreements
Property Development
Our property development lawyers offer expert advice to developers, subdividers and builders of residential,
commercial / industrial property, with regard to:
- ownership structures
- buying and selling land and buildings
- subdivisional developments
- multi-title developments
- project financing
- joint ventures
TRUST AND ASSET MANAGEMENT
The establishment of client's family trusts and the management of their investments. Asset planning and succession arrangements between generations comprise a significant part of our practice.
Our lawyers assist clients with:
- family trusts
- business (trading) trusts
- special purpose trusts
- charitable trusts
- advice to trustees in relation to the management of trust assets, to issues related to trustees' obligations and beneficiaries' rights and entitlements to distributions and resettlements, and to a host of other matters
- estate and retirement planning
- advice on relationship (matrimonial/de facto) property
- gifting programs
- Enduring Powers of Attorney (including advice to Attorneys and Managers)
WILLS AND ESTATES
Our lawyers advise on the preparation of Wills and the administration of Estates. We work together with family members to facilitate administration, providing professional service and advice on:
- estate planning and asset management
- will preparation
- administration of estates
- powers of attorney
- executorship advice
Ph: 09 367 2001