Business
Structuring
If you are starting a new business, it is vital to obtain advice at an early stage about the appropriate legal structure for that business. Making the wrong choice at the beginning may give rise to avoidable problems as you operate and later dispose of your business.
Matters to consider in structuring your business operations include:
- the minimisation of personal risk
- the most tax effective distribution of business profits
- the protection of essential business assets
- taking on new equity investors
- raising finance
- succession issues.
Business structures usually include one or more of the following:
- a sole trader
- a partnership
- a limited partnership
- a company
- a trust.
Our Business and Commercial Lawyers
Michael Perkins
Lawyer, author, educator
He helps clients deal with the practical, strategic and operational needs of their businesses, conservation of their assets, activating community and philanthropic interests and planning for succession to their estate over time.
Michael applies a multidisciplinary approach in dealing with the challenges of achieving growth, asset protection, estate governance and succession. Methodologies finessed with experience are applied, paving a way forward for globalising businesses as well as families making plans to manage their wealth for the benefit of subsequent generations.
Jeremy Duffy
Experienced business lawyer
Jeremy’s clients over the years have included corporates, banks, property developers/managers, financial advisory firms, representative bodies and private clients.
Clarence Leung
(Chi Chiu Leung)
Proficiently tri-lingual, Clarence is an experienced Private Client lawyer who is skilled in working with clients of diverse backgrounds and has extensive knowledge of business dynamics and trade practices. He has acted in or advised on disputed matters for clients with an Asian background including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Trusts disputes and Litigation – Clarence has represented large-scale international companies in Trade Practice and fraudulent activity matters. He has represented individual clients in relation to caveats, partnership disputes, contested estates and injunctions.
Commercial Law – Clarence helps clients deal with their wealth preservation and succession objectives for their commercial enterprises. He works for a diverse range of manufacturing distribution and retail market-focused businesses. Clarence also helps his clients deal with the legal issues that flow from the operations, management, planning and decision making processes as well as ownership of their commercial enterprises.
Zabina Naem
Associate Lawyer
- Advising on business succession planning.
- Advising on tax implications in estate planning and property law such as stamp duty concessions, land tax and capital gains tax.
- Assisting clients with residential and commercial conveyancing.
- Advising on the succession of discretionary trusts and self-managed superfunds.
- Drafting and settling discretionary trusts.
As a fluent Hindi speaker, Zabina has the capacity to assist clients from the Indian community.
Let’s talk.
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