Our Services
We offer a full range of commercial law services. We can help and advise with many situations so feel free to get in touch and let us know how we can help you.
Estate Planning
Wills and estates are a way of ensuring your assets are protected so your family and loved ones will be looked after once you are gone.
Our team understand the sensitive nature of handling your assets and legacy to ensure they are protected. We’ll draw up the legal documents to ensure they process is as simple as possible.
We have been helping clients for over 80 years by providing trusted advice on a range of asset protection planning, wills, estate administration and succession planning services.
We take the responsibility of power of attorney seriously and have been entrusted but many of our clients. We can act as executors of your will to ensure your wishes are met while making sure loved ones are treated with the greatest care and professionalism. If there are disputes over your estate or items in your will, we will ensure these are dealt with as efficiently as possible.
Private Client
By establishing a thorough understanding of our client’s objectives and needs, we can provide the personalised support, advice and guidance our clients require.
We are skilled at developing the right structures, tailoring our approach to guide and advise our clients on asset-structuring, trust establishment and reorganisation, asset and business planning, and complex family and succession matters.
We understand the unique challenges of managing family owned enterprises and assets and work to act responsively with discretion and care to ensure our client’s goals and outcomes are realised.
Our team is skilled at developing structures to facilitate inter-generational transition of assets using trust and company structures.
Leases
We can help both commercial landlords maximise their investment and commercial tenants to get the best deal for their situation whilst managing their risk and liabilities.
Commercial Landlords
With sound advice, solid documentation, robust systems for keeping on top of key dates in your leasing calendar you can ensure your investment is protected and that you are getting the best return on your investment.
Our team can provide our clients with leasing documents that are tailored to their building and their situation.
Commercial Tenants
We can help you negotiate your lease to reduce your liability and/or make amendments favourable to you as a tenant. The commercial lease for your business premises can be one of your biggest business expenses. Commercial leases can also be a large personal liability depending on the length of the lease and whether you sign a personal guarantee.
It is important you understand what you are agreeing to for before you sign a Deed of Lease or Agreement to Lease. Our commercial property experts can also advise when it comes time to negotiate lease renewals, rent reviews or assigning your lease to a third party.
Conveyancing
Buying or selling a home can be the biggest investment you will make in your life time. Our team can handle all aspects of the property transactions including sales and purchases of residential properties and mortgages, including freehold, cross-lease, and unit title.
We can assist in the preparation of agreements for private transactions between parties to ensure that the process run smoothly and cost effectively
We also do rural and residential subdivisions, sometimes complex, involving layers of relationships, easements and covenant obligations.
Company Formation
Whether your taking over an existing business or starting out from scratch our team can advise you the best way to form you company to ensure it starts off on the right foot.
We specialise in both limited liability companies and partnerships. Our team will make sure that your new company is complying with the law. We can also help with…
- terms of trade and other contracts
- customer and supplier agreements
- disputes over contracts
- shareholder agreements and disputes
- sale and purchase of businesses and shares
Trusts
Our family trust lawyers can help you with all the legal advice that you need to:
- Decide whether a family trust is necessary for you and your situation;
- Set up your family trust;
- Transfer assets to your family trust;
- Set up suitable gifting arrangements;
- Maintain your family trust once it is set up to protect it from “trust busters”.
Trusts
The term civil litigation is a specialised legal term used to differentiate between criminal and non-criminal. In short, any type of litigation that is not criminal litigation can loosely fall into the heading of civil litigation.
Whether it’s a personal dispute or a business dispute, our team can help you come to the most practical solution.
By getting to the heart of the dispute and focusing on the real issues, we can identify the best strategy for your individual situation. Our goal is to resolve disputes as quickly and as cost effectively as possible, reducing your stress and any disruption to your life or business.
We have been providing trusted legal advice not only to the city of Dunedin but the entire Otago region for 80 years. Our experience and knowledge acquired over than time means that we will ensure you get the best advice for your situation.