Business and Company Law
Starting a business and running one are daunting tasks.
On the one hand, you want to carefully manage your cash-flow, ensuring you aren’t spending hard earned money on unnecessary legal advice.
On the other hand you know that getting good commercial advice about your structure, operations, terms and collection process can make the difference between a business that succeeds and one that doesn’t.
Sather Legal can help you find the right balance.
We’ll be the first to tell you if we don’t think you need to chase down a particular legal avenue, but we’ll also be up front if we think you’re avoiding an important topic that could make a real difference.
Some key areas we can help business and corporations include:
- Leasing and commercial – leasing a commercial tenancy or buying/selling a business require a careful analysis of any proposed contracts or lease documents, and a proper due diligence to ensure you know what you’re getting into. We can help you navigate the entire process.
- Structuring advice – we can work with your accountants to ensure that your legal structures are right from the outset, ensuring that you understand how they work and where your risks are. The right structure finds a practical balance between protecting you from personal risk, managing your tax liabilities appropriately, and giving you a sensible way to either bring on partners or investors, or exit the business down the track if that’s your intention.
- Operations advice – each business has a slightly different need from the next when it comes to day-to-day trading. But for most, a simple suite of core documents will help your business get off to the right start. That might include employment contracts, trade terms, licensing documents or privacy policies. We can help you understand what you need and deliver it to you.
- Disputes – unfortunately while your obvious goal will be not to get into significant disputes, sometimes it can’t be avoided. As we set out in our commercial litigation section, we can help your business get through the other side of a dispute and back to normal day to day operations.