Clean documents, practical guidance and a commercially realistic perspective.
Advice on the sale and purchase of businesses Australia-wide, from early transaction planning and due diligence through to contract negotiation, drafting, and settlement. We regularly act for clients in privately negotiated or off-market transactions when parties choose not to engage a business broker.
Advice on starting and structuring a business, together with the drafting, review and negotiation of commercial agreements, shareholder arrangements and other documents governing business relationships. The focus is on how the arrangements will operate in practice, including ownership, rights and obligations, decision-making, risk allocation and exit arrangements.
Preparation of property contracts for vendors, contract reviews for purchasers, and advice on commercial and retail leasing. We regularly act for clients in privately negotiated or off-market transactions when parties choose not to engage a real estate agent. Our practice also handles electronic lodgement of Land Services Victoria title dealings, and can provide land transfer duty advice and draft submissions to the State Revenue Office in appropriate matters.
Advice and documentation for private lending, mortgages, guarantees and secured transactions, independent solicitor’s certificates and reverse mortgage advice. The focus is on ensuring the structure, obligations, enforcement risks and consequences are clearly understood before documents are signed.
Wills, powers of attorney and estate planning for individuals and business owners. Advice considers how personal wishes, asset ownership, business interests and succession arrangements interact, so the documents reflect the client’s circumstances as a whole rather than being treated in isolation.
Advice for business owners considering ownership succession, continuity, control and the future treatment of key assets. This may include reviewing structures, identifying risks, preparing for exits or transfers, and documenting arrangements between owners, family members or third parties.
Project-based and ongoing legal advisory arrangements for business owners, privately held businesses and individuals seeking targeted advice on a specific decision, transaction or legal risk. We provide transaction planning, objective second opinions, focused contract and document reviews, proactive legal risk reviews, and corporate legal diagnostics. Cream Legal also provides overflow and project-based work to other legal practices, including discrete background and white-label engagements where the instructing practice wishes to retain its own client relationship.
Legal advice informed by more than 15 years working across business sales and acquisitions, commercial arrangements, lending transactions, ownership and succession matters.
Each issue is considered in light of the surrounding circumstances, with attention to what it means for you, the practical risks and the consequences of proceeding. Advice is focused on the issues that matter and the steps required to move forward.
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