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Private Wealth
Premium legal services for private clients, ultra High Net Worths and private business groups. Taxation planning. Business & asset succession planning. Estate Planning. Risk Clinic. Philanthropy.
Taxation Law
Taxation planning and advice (Federal and State). Bespoke business structures – tailor made for each client. Transactional tax advice – acquisitions, sales, restructures. Tax disputes. SMSFs.
Finance Law
Borrowing & Lending transactions. Capital raising – debt & equity. Structured finance. Security structures & enforcement. Insolvency, restructurings & debt recovery. Asset protection advice.
Property & Real Estate
Acquisitions & Sales, Asset holding structures, Asset Protection strategies, Property finance, Development, Ownership Restructures, Leasing, Options, Planning & environment.
Private Equity
Advising buyers & sellers of private assets and businesses. LBOs and MBOs. Trade sales and other exits. Take privates. Capital raising – debt, equity & hybrids. Venture capital & pre IPO funding. IPOs.
Corporate Law
Bespoke business and asset holding structures. Capital Raising – private and public capital markets. M&A. Restructures. Shareholder Agreements. JVs. Corporate Governance.
Featured Insights
FEDERAL COURT: EXERCISING TRUSTEE DISCRETION WAS NOT TAX AVOIDANCE
The decision represents a significant win for taxpayers and provides guidance on the operation of Australia’s anti-avoidance rules contained in Part IVA.
WHEN AND HOW MAY A CHARITY UNDERTAKE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES?
For a long time it was thought that there was a rigid distinction between charitable and commercial organisations so that an organisation which carried on commercial activities could not be a charity, except where the commercial activities were incidental to the charitable purposes of the organisation. (See, for example, ATO tax ruling TR 2005/21). This changed with the decision of the High Court in Commissioner of Taxation v Word Investments Limited. Based on these decisions, an organisation whose only activities are commercial activities may still qualify as a charity provided it has only charitable objects, and the commercial activities are carried on to fund those objects.
Superannuation and Independent Contractors – ONLY NATURAL PERSONS CAN BE EMPLOYEES – Federal Court
In ZG Operations v Jamsek the Full Federal Court...
