Commercial Law

Commercial Law

You are in or want to be in business for yourself, or have had a commercial dispute. Your issues all come under the banner of commercial law.

Commercial law disputes have the potential to affect you, your family, your staff, clients and suppliers. Issues need to be resolved quickly to ensure the continuation of service, minimal time delays and as little stress as possible. If you find yourself in a commercial dispute it’s important to legal advice as soon as possible. Often serious issues can be sorted out before they escalat into major concerns.

The following legal services are available for your business:

  • Business structures: If you are establishing a new business enterprise, we can help you to make sure that you are setting the business up soundly, whether by a partnership, joint venture, company or trust. If you’re looking to restructure your business we can help with partnership dissolutions and corporately restructures.
  • Business contracts: Our commercial lawyers can prepare and review all types of legal contracts including purchase or sale of a business, put and call options, franchise agreements, supply agreements, service agreements, distribution agreements, partnership agreements, commercial contracts etc. We’ll make sure that the contract terms and conditions are suitable for your business now and into the future and ensure that due diligence standards are met.
  • Commercial law disputes and commercial litigation: We offer dispute resolution services and business litigation covering a wide range of problems including breach of contract, building and property disputes, debt recovery, partnership disputes and corporations law.
  • Corporations law: We can assist with shareholder agreements, advice on corporate governance, documenting company administrations.
  • Franchises: If you’re looking to buy into a franchise we can help you go through the franchise agreement and franchisor disclosure documents to make sure that you are aware of all of the issues that could make or break your new business.
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency: We can assist with the whole process of recovering money owed to you from an initial Letter of Demand through to Statement of Claims and Court Judgments. Finance: we can draft and review mortgages, guarantees, charges and other securities documentation.
  • Business succession and asset protection: You need a plan in place to make sure that your business and personal assets are protected. We can work with your business and family to devise a plan that keeps your hard-won assets safe through a unit, discretionary and family trusts, Wills and/or Powers of Attorney. Our business legal services can help get business startups and microbusinesses off to a good start and help nurture and sustain more established businesses and corporate enterprises.

For more information or to see how we can help you with any commercial law issues, contact us today.