what we do.

Businesses

• Advice on business structures and getting started.
• Formation of companies, limited partnerships and other business structures.
• Constitutions and shareholders’ agreements.
• Buy/sell agreements.
• Buying and selling businesses.
• Advice on governance and compliance – running your business right and managing risk.
• Business banking and financing.
• Buying, selling and leasing premises.
• Business contracts – terms and conditions of sale and supply.
• Business restructuring, amalgamations and wind-ups.
• Company/limited partnership administration.

Trusts and Trustees

• Formation of family trusts, inheritance trusts, education trusts – all kinds of trusts.
• Trust variations, restructures and resettlements.
• Trust administration advice and services.
• Foreign trust advice and services, including formation and administration.
• Advice to trustees on their powers, duties and responsibilities.
• Advice to beneficiaries on their rights and entitlements.
• Trust-related disputes and claims.

Individuals and their families

• Estate planning and succession advice.
• Wills.
• Enduring powers of attorney.
• Estate administration.
• Estate-related disputes and claims.
• Residential conveyancing.
• Retirement village purchases and sales.
• Home loan refinancing.
• Relationship property advice for those entering or ending relationships.

Community Organisations

• Formation of charitable trusts, incorporated societies and other charitable/not-for-profit entities.
• Advice on governance, management and administration of charitable and not-for-profit entities.
• Advice and compliance with the Charities Act 2005 and other relevant legislation.
• Advice on changes and amendments to trust deeds and other constitutional documents.
• Advice on reorganisation and restructuring of charitable and not-for-profit organisations.