Expertise
Our clients receive devoted premium legal services from our team of market leading lawyers.
Private Wealth
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- 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
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- Acquisitions & Sales
- Asset holding structures
- Asset Protection strategies
- Property finance
- Construction & development
- Subdivisions & site consolidations
- Ownership restructures
- Leasing
- Options
- Planning & environment
Finance & Investment Law
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Sales of business
Dispute Resolution & Litigation
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- 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
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- 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