Building Contract Management Kit
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 of time; Intension to suspend works Dispute Termination an instruction manual One unique feature of […]
Business and Property Documents
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 the property; and An over-arching agreement to tie them together, including provisions for bonuses if […]
Commercialising Software
We had a long meeting with a client this week looking at some strategies for commercialising some software, including…
Option Agreements
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
Notarisation of Overseas Documents
One of our clients needs some documents notarised and sent to the US, as part of the process of winding up her late husband’s estate.
Employment Contracts
This week we received a call from a friend of a client with an employment issue. He was recruited, signed a contract and shown his office and the company car.
Copyright Breach Allegations
We spoke to a client about a copyright matter this week. They had had a company prepare some plans for them based off an initial sketch, however no contract was signed and they did not like the design, so they got the plans drawn up by someone else.
Commercial Disputes Part II
This week we spoke with a client who had engaged a large firm to help handle a dispute with a former business partner. He had paid the law firm $300 000 over twelve months and got nowhere. He sent us some documents on Monday. We read them for forty-five minutes, discussed the matter for twenty […]
Shareholder Agreements Part II
This week we’ve been working on a suite of documents. One shareholder is leaving a company and another is buying in. The remaining two shareholders are buying twenty-five per cent of the leaving shareholder’s shares each. The new guy is buying fifty per cent, but has the option to buy the other fifty per cent […]
ATO Troubles (Our Clients, Not Us)
It has been a week of helping clients deal with stressful situations. One client had a meeting with the ATO last week regarding an R&D rebate claim in relation to the development of some software with a large artificial intelligence component, and went away with the understanding that: (a) The ATO believed he had committed […]