COMPANY AND TRUST LAW

At My Lawyer Melbourne, we understand that starting a business is an exciting but challenging endeavour. Thankfully, our team of business and corporate lawyers are equipped to provide:

• Legal advice if you are starting a business
  
• Advice in regard to business structures including partnerships, trusts and corporations 
  
• Business name registration – Partnership and joint venture agreements
  
• Buying and selling a business 
  
• Lease agreements
  
• Guarantees and security documents
• Bankruptcy and debt collection
  
• Estate and succession planning
  
• Advice in regard to business management and administration
  
• Employment law including employment contracts, employee rights, unfair dismissal and confidentiality agreements
  
• Administrative law
  
• Copyright and intellectual property law
• Advice on legislative requirements, including corporate structure, governance and compliance
  
• Corporate and commercial litigation in Court
  
• Advice in regard to tax law including capital gains tax
  
• Advice for non-profit organisations and charities
  
• Corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures sales
  
• Lending agreements the securities market
  
• Employee share option schemes

Additionally, at My Lawyer Melbourne, we also understand the need to create a trust. There are many benefits of creating a trust, including succession planning, asset protection and tax maximisation to name few. However, sometimes trusts are set up unintentionally due to the operation of the law, that’s why obtaining legal advice about trusts is essential. 

At My Lawyer Melbourne, our team of Trust Lawyers can also provide advice in relation to:

Establishment and Creation of:

• discretionary trusts;
• unit trusts;
• hybrid trust;
• special disability trusts; and
• charitable trusts.
• Our team also can assist in:

• Changes of trustee
• Trust variations including streaming
• Trust advice
• Trust disputes – beneficiaries and trustees
• Transfers of property from trusts
• Trust vesting
• Supreme Court proceedings for judicial advice on administration of a charitable trust