We can assist in areas such as:

• Business start-ups, business sales and transfer of business assets and sale and transfer of shares;
• Commercial debt recovery including litigation and dispute resolution;
• Review and advice on commercial contracts;
• Commercial conveyancing;
• Insolvency;
• Drafting trusts deeds;
• Resolution of legal disputes;
• Registering plant, equipment and goods on the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR);
• Drafting business trading documents including credit application and guarantee forms, privacy agreements and policies, trading terms and conditions and website terms of use;
• Property law and commercial leasing;
• Mortgages and loan agreements;
• Commercial and civil litigation;
• Business and commercial advice including business structures, contract law, privacy and competition and consumer law requirements;
• Corporations law including director’s duties;
• Drafting commercial and business agreements including business purchase/sale agreements, privacy agreements, confidentiality agreements, distribution agreements; partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, contractors’ agreements, securities agreements, deed of restraint of trade, share transfer agreements and much more.

• Not having any or adequate trading terms and conditions which consequently do not allow them to:
• Retain the title to any unpaid goods;
• Enter upon their client’s/customer’s premises to reclaim any unpaid goods;
• Recover any collection and/or legal fees incurred by the business in recovering outstanding debts from clients/customers;
• Charge interest on any outstanding debts;
• Limit their liability to clients/customers in relation to the provision of goods and/or services.
• Not having or providing clients/customers with a privacy policy as required under the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012, which amends the Privacy Act 1988.
• Not having any or adequate credit application forms where clients/customers are permitted to take accounts or pay accounts by instalments.
• Not having credit application forms guaranteed by a third party to secure debts of clients/customers.
• Not knowing the legal rights and obligations of businesses in relation to the provision of goods and/or services to clients/customers, particularly the consumer protection laws.