Hollingworth & Spencer is a full service commercial law firm which provides a top tier legal service but with a small firm feel. We strive to achieve this by working through your needs with you. We regularly visit clients’ business premises to help identify their legal issues and develop suitable strategies to address them.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Drafting and reviewing leases, including retail shop leases;
• Preparation of business operation documents including terms of trade and agency agreements;
• Business sale and purchase agreements;
• Business ownership agreements including joint venture, partnership, shareholders and critical event agreements;
• Preparation of option agreements;
• Advice on business structuring and operation;
• Establishment and review of companies and trusts;
• Risk management and asset quarantining strategies
• Structuring the succession of your family business, company or trust;
• Superannuation arrangements including superannuation borrowing agreements;
• Confidentiality documents;
• Employment agreements and related transactions; and
• Intellectual property including trade marks and licensing of rights.

Our commercial team is led by Adam Robinson, the principal of this practice. Adam, has over 15 years’ experience in all of the above areas of work, and he has a strong tax and revenue focus. Our team also includes solicitor Ian Portas, who have nearly 20 years’ combined experience in the above areas.

As a client, we would (with your approval) routinely work with your accountant, financial advisor or other professionals to provide you with a comprehensive service to ensure that your affairs are thoroughly addressed and to add further value to the services that we provide. By taking all of your circumstances into account, we are able to make recommendations which best suit your situation, with a view to finding the optimal, and yet most cost-effective, solutions for you.

Our commercial team looks forward to supporting you and reviewing your legal affairs. Our experience tells us that from discussing with you your legal or business arrangements, we will likely be able to direct your mind to other important issues that you have not previously considered.

For practical commercial legal advice, telephone Adam Robinson or Ian Portas on (07) 3123 5700 or (07) 3123 5750.