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Commercial

Our commercial law team works with businesses and individuals of every size, from family enterprises taking their first steps toward incorporation to established organisations navigating growth, structuring or succession.

With over 25 years of combined experience, Anthony Murdoch, Rebekah Henry and Michael Barberio, with paralegal support from Isabella Bonello, provide practical, commercially-minded advice at every stage of the business lifecycle.

We offer advice across the following areas:

General commercial

  • Contractual drafting and review

  • Business structuring and succession

  • Company and trust establishment

  • Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) structuring and advice

Business and share sales

  • Shareholder and unitholder arrangements and agreements
  • Share, unit and business sales, including transactions involving publicly listed companies

  • Initial public offerings (IPOs) and capital raisings

Property and construction

  • Building contracts

  • Property development advice

Leasing

  • Commercial and residential lease negotiations, assignments and transfers

  • Leasing dispute advice

     

  • VCAT and VSBC applications and appearances

Towing

  • TOW licence purchases, sales and transfers

  • Licencing and regulatory compliance
  • TOW-related applications, renewals and show-cause notices

Tax, IP and workplace

  • Taxation

  • IP advice, including trademarks, business names and design registrations
  • Employment law

Finance and cross-border

  • Banking
  • Franchises
  • Bankruptcy, insolvency and liquidation

  • International trade and land holdings

We also provide independent legal advice and solicitor’s certificates for guarantors and borrowers – see our dedicated page for more information.

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