We can advise you on a full range of commercial property matters, including:

• Buying and selling commercial property
• Ownership restructuring
• Leasing
• Creating or amending Body Corporates
• Local Government issues and consents
• Refinancing
• Subdividing property
• Building contracts

We regularly advise on a wide range of commercial matters across a number of industries. We are able to help you with:

• Sale and purchase of businesses
• Preparation and negotiation of a wide range of commercial and business contracts
• Business terms and conditions
• Limited and general partnerships
• Joint ventures, shareholders' agreements and shareholder structuring
• Public offerings of securities
• Corporate governance
• Consumer Law, including the Sales of Goods Act, Consumer Guarantees Act and the Fair Trading Act
• Terms of trade
• Supply agreements
• Licensing and franchising

Setting up and governing a business properly can be confusing, we can help with:

• Companies Act compliance
• Company governance and best practice for Directors
• Company formation
• Company re-structuring
• Sale and purchase of shares
• Appointment and removal of Directors
• Shareholder Agreements
• Risk management for Directors and companies
• Corporate succession planning
• Capital raising structures and transactions

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• Sale and purchase agreements
• Structuring the purchasing entity
• Assessing the type and component of the purchase
• Assisting with Due Diligence
• Working alongside your Accountant to ensure tax and financial structure work for you
• Premises lease issues and assignment or variation
• Equipment lease issues
• Supply agreements
• Financing
• Personal Property Security Act issues

We advise lenders (including Banks and Finance Companies), and borrowers on a wide range of Banking and Financial Services Law, including:

• New lending/ borrowing for businesses and individuals
• Refinancing of existing borrowing
• Finance for acquisitions
• Personal Property Securities Act and Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act
• Registering security interests
• Advising finance companies on compliance issues

Intellectual Property (IP) is a significant and valuable component of your business portfolio. We can help protect and maximise the value of your IP including:

• Branding
• Trade Mark procedures with IPONZ
• Identifying and auditing IP
• Licensing and franchising
• Manufacturing and Supply Agreements
• Protecting confidential information and trade secrets
• Preparing Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Structuring Ownership of IP
• Liaising with Specialist IP and Patent Attorneys

We provide advice to:

• Companies which are undertaking restructuring, dealing with insolvency and creditor claims
• Directors about their duties when their company is facing insolvency
• Creditors owed money by insolvent companies
• Insolvency Practitioners holding appointments
• Purchasers of business assets from liquidators and receivers of insolvent companies

We advise on:

• Liquidation, Receivership and Administration
• Corporate Restructuring
• Enforcing Security
• Voluntary Administration
• Statutory Demands
• Creditor Disputes and Compromises
• Liquidators powers and duties
• Voidable transactions, and charges and transactions at undervalue
• Directors' duties and liability when facing insolvency
• Sale and Purchase of business assets from liquidators and recievers