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Small Business Lawyers

Whether you are starting a business and looking for legal advice, looking for a business lawyer to assist with commercial litigation or planning to buy or sell a business, we can help you make the right decisions. We know Australian business laws through and through and have sound experience across many different industries. We offer practical legal solutions to individuals, small businesses and SMEs.

At Cruz Legal, we offer the following legal services for our business clients:

Business structures

If you are establishing a new business, we can help you make sure that you are setting the business up soundly, whether by partnership, joint venture, company, trust or franchise. If you’re looking to restructure your business we can help with partnership dissolutions and corporate restructures.

Business contracts

Our commercial lawyers can prepare or review all types of legal contracts, including purchase or sale of business, Put and Call Options, franchise agreements, supply agreements, service agreements, distribution agreements, partnership agreements and commercial contracts. We’ll make sure that the contract terms and conditions are suitable for your business now and into the future and ensure that due diligence standards are met.

Franchises

If you’re looking to buy into a franchise we can help you go through the franchise agreement and franchisor disclosure documents to make sure that you are aware of all of the issues that could make or break your new business.

Corporations law

We can assist with shareholders’ agreements, advice on corporate governance, documenting company administrations.

Copyright, trademarks and patents

We can help you manage and enforce your intellectual property rights, including litigation where needed. We can also help you with registering designs, patents and trademarks.

Property and leasing

We can assist with retail leasing and commercial leasing for both landlords and tenants. We can also assist with the sale or purchase of commercial property.

Commercial law and small business legal advice

We offer small business legal help in a wide range of matters including trade practices law and consumer law.

Workplace and employment

We can draw up or review employment contracts and workplace agreements as well as assist with disputes and unfair dismissals. We can also assist with occupational health and safety issues.

Taxation and finance

We can draft and review mortgages, guarantees, charges and other securities documentation as well as advise in regard to GST, Capital Gains and Land Tax.

Business succession and asset protection

You need a plan in place to make sure that your business and personal assets are protected. We can work with your business and family to devise a plan that keeps your hard won assets safe through unit, discretionary and family trusts, Wills and/or Powers of Attorney.

Commercial disputes and commercial litigation

We offer dispute resolution services and business litigation covering a wide range of problems, including breach of contract, building and property disputes, debt recovery, copyright infringement, partnership disputes and corporations law.

We can assist with the whole process of recovering money owed to you from an initial Letter of Demand through to Statement of Claim and Court Judgment.

Our business legal services can help you get your start-up and microbusiness off to a good start and help nurture and sustain more established businesses and corporate enterprises into the future.

Contact us to find out more or to arrange a consultation at your office or ours.

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Cruz Legal’s mission is to assist clients at their preferred location by providing more agile, tech savvy and innovative legal advice at a reasonable cost.

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  • Engages with clients to manage their long-term needs while resolving the client’s short term legal challenges

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