We spoke to an old colleague of Michael’s this week who is merging his business with the business of another old colleague. He needs a share swap agreement with the first guy’s company becoming a subsidiary of the second guy’s...
We’ve been helping a client with documentation to buy a café this week. A real estate agent who is acting for the seller put together a rather shonky sale agreement. We have drafted a proper one using our own pro...
A lot of businesses extend credit to their customers. We recommend businesses require their customers to make credit application, which incorporate the business’s terms of trade and can be registered on the personal property security register to give some priority...
People are starting to do business again. This week we received some instructions to: prepare a sale agreement for the sale of 20% of the units in a unit trust which owns a business, where the buyer is another unit...
We’ve been doing quite a bit of IT-related legal work this week – a copyright assignment deed in relation to a computer program, a head licence agreement, an IT services agreement, an end-user licence agreement and giving some advice regarding...
More people are starting to do business again. This week we received some instructions from one new to: help restructure a group of companies review family trust deed, unit trust deeds and unit-holder deed; prepare some complicated wills. Another wants...
We met a new client yesterday who is looking to allow some of his employees to buy into his company. We discussed different ways and means – selling his shares or allotting new shares in the company, with him getting...
We are now ready to release our New Building Contract Management Kit for builders, consisting of: a contract for residential buildings a contract for commercial buildings a variation agreement a various notices in relation to: Practical completion Delay and extension...
We put together an interesting suite of documents this week: A lease of a large commercial property from one company which owns the property; A licence to run a business from another company that is currently running a business from...
It has been a week for option agreements this week.
We amended one that gives a couple of potential investors the option to invest multiples of $50,000 up to $600,000 in a technology company