Corporate Legal

Corporate Legal can advise and assist with any disputes relating to your construction project, whether that dispute be defective works, a delay or hold on your project by the builder or concerning price increases to your project. We can help you navigate and understand your rights and obligations under your building contract, and assist you with finding a solution that works for you.

A business dispute can range anywhere from a dispute with an employee about an employment contract, a dispute with a supplier about goods delivered or services provided, or a dispute with a customer about their business purchase.

At Corporate Legal, we can assist you with resolving your business dispute in the most cost-effective manner possible. We do this by ensuring we have a complete, accurate understanding of the matter by speaking to you and reviewing any relevant documentation before putting together an appropriate strategy to resolve the problem.

With years of experience in resolving business disputes, Corporate Legal can assist you with your matter and ensure you can get on with the business of doing business.

A contractual dispute usually occurs when the parties to the contract have a different interpretation over the terms and conditions of the contract. This can occur if the contract contains unclear terms, if the contract is silent on a specific issue, or if oral representations were made in the course of the making of the contract that one party considered to form part of the contract, whereas the other party did not.

Contractual disputes often occur between customer and supplier, employer and employee and even between business partners themselves.

Our experience in contractual dispute resolution can assist you in resolving your dispute quickly and cost-effectively. We identify the issues, examine all relevant paperwork, and then advise you on an appropriate strategy to resolve your dispute.

With years of conveyancing experience, Corporate Legal’s primary focus is to take the stress and worry out of transferring property ownership.

We will handle your account from the initial demand letter to the final enforcement action taken before recovery is made. With our hard-hitting yet commercially minded approach, we are able to, from our early interactions with your debtors, make accurate predictions on what the outcome will be, and apply an appropriate strategy to allow for the greatest recovery.

We will handle your account from the initial demand letter to the final enforcement action taken before recovery is made. With our hard-hitting yet commercially minded approach, we are able to, from our early interactions with your debtors, make accurate predictions on what the outcome will be, and apply an appropriate strategy to allow for the greatest recovery.

Estate planning refers to the process of planning ahead for what is to happen to your assets and liabilities after your death. Estate planning is an important process to complete as it provides clarity on what is to happen to your estate after you pass, including who is to benefit from the proceeds of your estate. Estate planning is particularly important if you own valuable assets such as real estate or a business. If you do not have proper estate planning documents in place, your family members may fall into great stress difficulty in trying to finalise your financial affairs.

At Corporate Legal, we can help you to get your estate planning documents in order. We can prepare a Will for you, as well as a Power of Attorney and an Enduring Guardian.

We aim to help both individuals and families secure the financial future of their next generation.

If you have been left out of a deceased estate, in certain circumstances, you may be entitled to make a family provision claim. A family provision claim can be made if are considered an 'eligible person', and if you were, in some way or another, dependent on the deceased person financially. We can help you identify whether you are entitled to make a family provision claim, and commence family provision proceedings on your behalf.

A family trust is also known as a discretionary trust. A trustee (either a person, group of people or a company) holds assets on behalf of beneficiaries. Corporate Legal has the expertise in trust law and are best placed to legally set up a family trust that and provide financial and legal advice before stepping into this complicated legal structure.

If a company owes you money and you think they may be trading insolvent, we can help you have the company placed into liquidation and lodge a proof of debt. Our lawyers are experienced in assisting and advising clients through the process of making someone insolvent by way of a court application.

Our leasing specialists can assist you with drafting or reviewing any lease, including both retail, industrial and commercial leases.

Litigation is the process of running your case through the court system. At Corporate Legal, we offer litigation services for all civil and commercial matters. If you have a business dispute, contract dispute or any other kind of civil or commercial dispute that has been unable to be resolved by negotiation, we can take the matter to court on your behalf, and prepare the case to be heard and decided via the court system.

We can also represent you if you have been served with court documents naming you or your business as the defendant in legal proceedings. We can prepare a defence for you, engage in negotiations to resolve the matter and prepare the case to be heard and decided at a final hearing.

Our experience in civil and commercial litigation allows us to assist you to understand your rights, obligations and the options available to you.

We can help you with setting up a Bare Trust to enable you to purchase property through your self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF). You may need to consider some legalities including Compliance with the SIS Act and SMSF and Bare Trust Trustee requirements.