Expertise

Our clients receive devoted premium legal services from our team of market leading lawyers.

Private Wealth

    • Wealth Creation & Wealth Protection strategies
    • Taxation planning & advice
    • Business & Asset succession planning & family agreements
    •  Asset protection strategies
    • Generational & Estate Planning:
      • Wills & estates
      • Disputes & litigation involving trusts & estates
      • legacy & philanthropy
    • Retirement planning:
      • Superannuation & SMSFs
      • Insurance products, including inestment bonds & annuities
    • Philanthropy & Giving Back – establishing Charitable Funds, Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) & Foundations
    • Risk Clinic

Taxation Law

  • Taxation planning and advice (Federal and State)
  • Business structures and optimal asset holding vehicles – tailor made for each client
    • Companies
    • Trusts
    • Partnerships including limited partnerships
    • Inbound and outbound investment structures
  • Optimal tax efficiency for business transactions.
  • Obtaining tax rulings and other communications with tax authorities before transacting
  • Capital raising structures – private and public capital markets.
  • Corporate restructures.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions.
  • Tax disputes – Federal & State Taxes.
  • SMSFs.

    Property & Real Estate Law

      • Acquisitions & Sales
      • Asset holding structures
      • Asset Protection strategies
      • Property finance
      • Construction & development
      • Subdivisions & site consolidations
      • Ownership restructures
      • Leasing
      • Options
      • Planning & environment

     

    Finance & Investment Law

      • Borrowing – corporate/project/property
      • Lending transactions
      • Capital raisings – debt and equity
      • Structured finance – including asset leases, convertible loans & other hybrids
      • Security structures & enforcement
      • Insolvency, DOCAs, Restructuring & Debt Recovery
      • Asset Protection
      • Start-Up and Venture Capital
      • Investments, and Financial Products
        • Investors – Legal risk analysis & advice
        • Product design & execution for Issuers
        • drafting and reviewing Product Disclosure Statements (PDS)

    Corporate & Commercial Law

      • Business structures – tailor made for each client
      • Capital Raising  advice – private and public capital markets – drafting and reviewing prospectus and other offer documents
      • Bespoke corporate constitutions, including different classes of shareholdings (eg preference shares, super-voting shares, convertible notes) 
      • Corporate restructures
      • Mergers & Acquisitions
        • Data room facilitation
        • Due diligence 
        • Compliance with regulatory rules & procedures
        • Defence strategies 
      • Shareholder Agreements 
      • Corporate Governance 
      • Advising directors – duties and risks
      • Commercial Law & Contracts
        • Asset sales & purchase agreements
        • partnership & JV agreements
        • Licensing and royalty agreements

    Private Equity

      • Sales of business
        • Trade sales and other exits
        • preparatory steps enabling realisation of maximum returns
        • transaction and offer documentation
        • post transaction matters
      • Investments in private assets and businesses
        • Due Diligence & Risk Clinic
        • transaction documentation
      • Raising Capital – debt, equity & hybrids
      • LBOs and MBOs
      • Taking listed companies private
      • Start-ups & venture capital
      • IPOs

    Dispute Resolution & Litigation

      • Commercial disputes
      • Taxation disputes – Federal & State taxes
      • Administrative & Public Law – challenge of rulings & decisions of government departments (Federal, State & local government) and tribunals (eg AAT, Land & Environment Court)
      • Litigation involving trusts & deceased estates
      • Property disputes
      • Securities Law, corporate (white collar) & commercial fraud
      • Defamation Law, Media Communications & Social Media
      • Class & representative actions

    Risk Clinic

      • Comprehensive deep-dive into a client’s unique situations and comprehensive risk analysis using the Gavel Law proprietary  Risk Matrix (GLRM) aimed at de-risking clients’ lives, business structures & dealings
      • GLRM can cover an entire corporate goup or may focus on specific situations (transactions/assets) or entities
      • Creating a better risk-reward profile for client affairs & dealings
      • Bespoke solutions:  advice and report of Risk Mitigation Strategies – for known & unknown risks, eg asset protection & self insurance
      • Assist with execution of Risk Mitigation Strategies

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