GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers

If you are engaged in commercial activity of any kind, you will be only too well aware of the speed at which change can occur, whether through economic, technological, legal or other means.

In business, there is a constant need to identify and resolve business risks and to minimise the chance of disputes occurring that might hinder your business and commercial strategies.

GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers works extensively with business clients who see the increasing involvement of regulators in their industry and the trend towards litigation as an important element in achieving success in their business.

Providing flexible responses and systems to identify and minimise risks on your behalf will increase the opportunities for your business to succeed as well as reduce the likelihood of disputes occurring or of finding yourself involved in costly litigation.

At GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers our commercial law team serves the needs of regional, national or international businesses in the following areas of expertise:

• capital raisings,
• corporate governance,
• corporate strategies and regulation,
• foreign investment,
• franchising,
• international joint ventures,
• management and leveraged buy-outs,
• mergers and acquisitions,
• outsourcing,
• partnerships,
• private equity raisings,
• privatisations/corporatisations,
• project agreements,
• restructuring,
• shareholder agreements,
• takeovers,
• trade,
• underwriting and
• venture capital.

The ongoing conduct of your Australian business often sees issues addressed without full account taken of the significant legal implications of those decisions.

GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers believe the best way to advise you in optimising your business efficiency is by having a detailed understanding of your operations.

Having a close relationship with us is your insurance that potential problems are prevented. We specialise in clever solutions designed to keep you away from costly disputes.

We at GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers ensure that your business meets all the requirements of the business law that applies to your industry. In the long run it also saves time and money because it avoids difficult and time-wasting disputes with regulators and other parties.

GWM Lawyers and Coneyancers' business law team assists you and your business achieve its optimum results with advice in the following areas:

• business agreements and commercial contracts,
• corporate restructure,
• insurance,
• intellectual property,
• share transfers,
• employment contracts and disputes and
• superannuation.

Whatever the business environment of the moment, businesses that are not prudently managed, or that encounter unpredictable market environments, may face financial difficulties.

Rather than proceed to recovery through direct business insolvency action, it is often possible to attempt to turn a potential failure into financial recovery. This may often increase greatly the returns to creditors, keep worthwhile companies afloat, help businesses regain financial viability, minimise losses to unsecured creditors and have less damaging economic and social consequences.

This requires skills in banking and finance, property, corporate reconstructions, taxation, intellectual property, asset tracking and litigation. It also requires a working knowledge of the insolvency legislation and the options available whether they be voluntary administration, restructuring of the business organisation, or informal arrangements, soft receiverships and intensive care assignments.

At GWM Lawyers and Conveyancers we also advise our business clients on preventative remedies: how to structure their financial, business and lending transactions to ensure maximum protection should unforeseen difficulties arise.

If the decision is that insolvency or bankruptcy is the only option, our business insolvency team works closely with the insolvency practitioners and accountants to ensure that our clients interests are served and their personal assets are preserved to the fullest extent possible.