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Business sales, purchases & franchising

• Business conveyancing - sale and purchase

  Our experience includes a deep understanding of the processes involved to ensure that matters settle promptly and that you can be properly advised in relation to any issues that arise:

  • pre-sale planning
  • business structuring for asset protection and tax minimisation 
  • purchaser enquiries and due diligence 
  • preparing and negotiating business sale agreements and share sale agreements 
  • put and call options and joint venture agreements 
  • lease reviews and assignments 
  • acting for franchisors and franchisees in the sale or purchase of a franchised business 

  We adopt a commercially focused and practical approach to ensure that we are expediting the sale process, rather than putting roadblocks in its path.

• Advice to franchisees

  • advising franchisees in relation to their rights under the Franchising Code of Conduct
  • advising franchisees in relation to draft Franchise Agreements
  • advising on and negotiating terms of Leases and Licences to Occupy
  • providing Legal Advice Certificates

• Advice to franchisors

  • advising franchisors in relation to strategies to protect and licence intellectual property within franchises
  • acting and advising in the establishment of new franchises or transfers of existing ones
  • preparation of Franchise Agreements, disclosure documents and all related documents required under applicable legislation
  • advising in relation to compliance with the Franchising Code of Conduct and other trade practices issues
  • assisting your franchise business in the introduction of an internal compliance strategy