Estate planning
• Protection of wealth through asset protection strategies
• Preparation of Wills – testamentary discretionary trusts, mutual Wills and simple Wills
• Superannuation and binding death benefit nominations
• Planning for legal incapacity before death through the preparation of Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advance Health Directives
• Business succession planning

Estate administration
• Involving the administration and finalisation of the estate of a deceased person
• Probate and Letters of Administration
• Identifying and settling debts and liabilities
• Identifying and collecting assets
• Transferring assets to beneficiaries rightly entitled
• Accounting and taxation matters
• Advising on the duties and responsibilities of executors and/or administrators

Leasing
• Retail, commercial and industrial properties (involving both landlord and tenant clients)
• Single use properties
• Offices
• Warehouses and factories
• Shopping centres

Business acquisitions and sales
• Small business
• Medium business
• Large scale national businesses
• Service stations
• Restaurants
• Service industries

Franchising
• Franchise acquisitions, sales, advice, national franchises

Business structuring and succession
• Partnership agreements
• Joint ventures
• Syndicates
• Shareholder agreements
• Unitholder agreements
• Buy/sell agreements
• License and agency agreements

Sales and acquisitions
• Residential (units, townhouses, vacant land and houses)
• Commercial (shopping centres and offices)
• Industrial (warehouses and factories)

Property development
• Residential developments
• Mixed use developments
• Commercial offices
• Retail shops
• Land subdivisions

Land resumption claims

Easements

Licencing agreements

Option agreements

Estate litigation
• Concerns over the validity of a Will
• Beneficiaries feeling aggrieved by the terms of the Will by either not being provided for at all or not being provided for adequately
• Promises and arrangements made by a deceased person during their lifetime not being fulfilled
• Will construction and Will interpretation matters
• Superannuation claims and disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution

QCAT matters
• Enduring Powers of Attorney disputes
• Guardianship and Tribunal hearing matters
• Mediation and dispute resolution

Property disputes & litigation
• Statutory trustee sales
• Lease disputes
• Breach of contract claims
• Body corporate disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution

Business disputes & litigation
• Partnership disputes
• Franchise disputes
• Company and shareholder disputes
• Breach of contract claims
• Business litigation
• Insurance disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution