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:

Legal advice for structuring a business

Our Business and Commercial Lawyers

Michael Perkins Principal Lawyer

Michael Perkins

Lawyer, author, educator

Michael Perkins, Co-Founder and Principal Lawyer Dip Law SAB, TEP, MICW has over 30 years’ experience of in resolving complexities for clients managing their family and business interests. While many professionals manage and deliver transactions for clients, Michael provides additional support with resolving broader complexity and conflict in the lives of his clients, where possible without resorting to litigation or other dispute resolution processes.

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.

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