Practice Areas

Notwithstanding the practice area, clients seek competent and informed legal assistance that is undertaken within a sensible time period for a workable price. Our objective and focus is to achieve these objectives in a direct and personal manner.

CharterLaw is a professional commercial law firm that assists the complex machinery of being in business by providing the following services in the areas set out below and elsewhere in this website.

• Contract negotiations and document drafting for a wide range of commercial and business agreements
• Capital raisings – debt, convertible debt and equity
• Compliance and risk management
• Contracts
• Corporate governance
• Corporations Act
• Due diligence investigations
• Fundraising and syndicate structuring
• Joint ventures
• Large and small private mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity fundraising and restructuring
• Industry specific areas including the education sector, the real estate sector, commercial and home building construction sectors.
• Advertising, promotions, marketing and distribution and supply advice and agreements
• Competition and consumer law including misleading and unconscionable conduct
• Franchising law and regulation
• Partnership and joint venture law
• Establishment and advice on the operation and taxation of family trusts, discretionary trusts, fixed trusts, hybrid trusts, unit trusts, child maintenance trusts and special purpose trusts including non-regulated  funding and investment trusts
• Management and compliance advice in respect of Trusts and unregulated managed investment schemes
• Technology agreement
• Supplier terms and conditions
• Personal Property and Security Act matters

• ATO litigation
• ATO audits
• ATO prosecutions
• Organising the cost effective preparation and lodgment of prior year income tax returns
• Tax Fraud
• Tax evasion
• Remission of tax, penalties and interest
• Federal Police prosecutions
• Failure to lodge penalties
• Deemed dividend assessments
• SME audit objections
• Liquidations
• Director Penalty Notices
• Asset protections
• GST objections
• FBT objections
• Offshore structuring and investment
• Tax residency issues
• OSR objections (Land Tax and Payroll Tax)
• The taxation of overseas companies and trusts controlled in Australia.

• Business and investment tax structuring
• Business succession and tax planning
• Capital Gains Tax
• Corporate Tax
• Dividend Tax
• Estate Planning
• Advice on investment income and structuring
• Business Succession Planning
• Goods and Services Tax
• Income Tax generally
• International Tax
• Employment Taxes
• Private equity
• Superannuation
• Self-Managed Superannuation Fund investments
• Taxation of Trusts
• Tax audits, litigation and dispute resolution
• State taxes including stamp duty, payroll tax and land tax
• Land Tax
• Payroll Tax
• Stamp duty

• Competition and Consumer law
• Contract Law
• Construction Contract Law
• Corporations Law and Securities
• Defamation
• Dispute resolution, including building and construction, contacts and commercial, and property
• Government power and Administration Law
• Insolvency and reconstructions
• Insurance contract and financial services litigation
• Intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, computers and software
• Shareholder disputes and oppression proceedings
• Property disputes
• Tax litigation
• Financial Services disputes and recoveries

• Personally structured estate planning
• Estate planning for high net wealth individuals and their families
• Highly-effective Wills to reflect and implement the testator’s intentions
• Will including testamentary trusts ( a flexible and tax-minimising way to assist younger beneficiaries including grandchildren and that possess asset-protection attributes)
• Business and personal succession planning
• Estate planning considerations for self-managed superannuation funds
• Powers of Attorney including enduring powers of attorney
• Estate administration
• Dealing with claims by non-beneficiaries – family provision claims
• Reducing the possibility of future family disputes over deceased estates
• Revoking a Will and varying a Will
• Dealing with the consequences of intestacy

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Construction
• Conveyancing
• Contract negotiations and preparation
• Corporate and commercial transactions
• Corporate real estate
• Dispute resolution
• Joint ventures
• Negotiation of commercial and home building contracts and construction litigation
• Land divisions and titling
• Commercial, industrial, and retail leasing
• Property based tax advice
• Property development, financing and management
• Tax effective property development structure and realisations
• Goods and Services Tax

• Bankruptcy including acting for the trustee or liquidator  in respect of a liquidation in relation to regularly recurring issues such as preference recoveries, resolution of POD claims and PPSA issues that may arise.
• Corporate Administrations
• Business reconstruction and workouts
• Insolvent Trading by directors –  defences and recoveries
• Corporate Receiverships
• Corporate Insolvency litigation and dispute resolution
• Insolvency risk management and protection
• Corporate Liquidations
• DEBTOR preference defence advice and litigation assistance
• Corporate and personal public examinations
• Secured Creditor actions
• Debtor defences and to secured creditor enforcement or the wrongful appointment of a receiver and manager
• Taxation and GST implications for insolvency practitioners

• Advice on most forms of intellectual property protection and allied rights
• Commercialisation of intellectual property assets
• Confidentiality and  Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Goodwill and know how protection
• Technology and business systems protection
• Copyright advice and litigation
• Designs registration and proceedings
• Drafting and negotiating manufacturing, licensing, and distribution agreements
• Trade Restrains and competition protection advice and documents
• Reviewing advertising copy for compliance with trade practice laws, media regulations, and codes of conduct
• Structuring of intellectual property assets and ownership
• Trade mark registrations, portfolio management, oppositions, removal actions, and proceedings
• Worldwide trade mark, patent, and design searches