corporate advisory & commercial law
We have extensive experience negotiating and drafting commercial contracts for the supply of goods and services, advising on corporate structuring and finance for start-ups through to businesses in distress, and acting on the sale and purchase of businesses and shares.
We provide timely and pragmatic commercial legal advice to grow your business and protect your assets.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
Why choose Mackie Legal?
Our competitive differentiation derives from working alongside your Tax Compliance, Advisory, Audit and Assurance advisors to find a cross-disciplinary accounting, tax and legal solution for our clients’ issues. We draw on our extensive experience to deliver a whole-of-business solution focused on increasing business profits and protecting your assets.
We provide timely and pragmatic commercial legal advice to grow your business and protect your assets.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
- Company formations, Shareholders’ and Unit Holders’ Agreements;
- Business Sales, Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Business Protection and Succession Deeds (Buy/Sell Deeds);
- Loan Facility Deeds and General Security Agreements;
- Corporate Governance and Structuring;
- Joint Ventures and Partnerships;
- Preparation of services agreements for a wide range of industries with an emphasis on protecting intellectual property and confidential information;
- Negotiating and preparation of loan and security documentation;
- Advising on terms and conditions of trade, guarantees and indemnities, leasing and retention of title arrangements;
- Representing businesses at various stages in their life cycle from establishment through to management, growth and ultimately, exit;
- Providing day-to-day advice to companies and legal structures in all forms, on a range of corporate and/or commercial legal issues;
- Providing effective planning and implementing support for business re-organisations; specifically change of control transactions.
Why choose Mackie Legal?
Our competitive differentiation derives from working alongside your Tax Compliance, Advisory, Audit and Assurance advisors to find a cross-disciplinary accounting, tax and legal solution for our clients’ issues. We draw on our extensive experience to deliver a whole-of-business solution focused on increasing business profits and protecting your assets.
Timely, pragmatic and easily understood commercial legal advice
commercial litigation & dispute resolution
We Keep your best interests front of mind and understand that litigation is not always the best means of resolving disputes.
Our commercial litigation experience spans a diverse range of industries and we have extensive experience appearing in all court jurisdictions, conducting trials and representing clients in advocacy and mediation conferences.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
Why choose Mackie Legal?
Having worked with a range of clients, we draw on our extensive experience and expertise to advise you on how to move forward and minimise disruption to your business. We understand that litigation is not always the best means of resolving a dispute. Our approach is flexible, practical and focused on achieving the best commercial result for your business situation.
Our commercial litigation experience spans a diverse range of industries and we have extensive experience appearing in all court jurisdictions, conducting trials and representing clients in advocacy and mediation conferences.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
- Dispute resolution, advocacy and mediation
- Conducting litigation across a wide range of commercial areas:
- Directors’ and shareholders’ disputes;
- Partnership disputes;
- Dissolution of joint ventures and disputes between joint venture partners;
- Commercial leasing issues;
- Actions by and against trustees, beneficiaries and appointors;
- Initiating and defending defamation suits;
- Protecting intellectual property rights.
Why choose Mackie Legal?
Having worked with a range of clients, we draw on our extensive experience and expertise to advise you on how to move forward and minimise disruption to your business. We understand that litigation is not always the best means of resolving a dispute. Our approach is flexible, practical and focused on achieving the best commercial result for your business situation.
Keeping your best interests front of mind
Estate & SUCCESSION planning
Estate Planning is the term used for making decisions in relation to preparing a Will and Enduring Power of Attorney.
As unpleasant as the task may seem, Estate Planning is one of the necessities of life. It really is not an optional extra.
Unless you have a current Will, there is no guarantee that your loved ones will be provided for as you wish, or that your assets will be distributed as you intend.
Also, for business owners in particular, a plan for succession and ownership is essential.
There are many issues to consider in making your Will. At Mackie Legal we are well versed in asking the right questions. We all need to make a valid Will and keep it up to date.
To safeguard your affairs you should make an Enduring Power of Attorney (“EPOA”) alongside your will. An EPOA allows you to nominate how you would like to have your personal, financial and health care matters managed in the event that you lose the capacity to make those decisions.
Where necessary, at Mackie Legal we are also able to interpret Wills in Court proceedings, in order to protect the rights of beneficiaries and family members.
Why choose Mackie Legal?
At Mackie Legal we are highly skilled in the preparation of Wills and EPOA’s. We believe that effective planning for the future forms part of our service to you to ensure that the maximum level of assets are available following your death, and also that your directions are followed in the manner you wish.
As unpleasant as the task may seem, Estate Planning is one of the necessities of life. It really is not an optional extra.
Unless you have a current Will, there is no guarantee that your loved ones will be provided for as you wish, or that your assets will be distributed as you intend.
Also, for business owners in particular, a plan for succession and ownership is essential.
There are many issues to consider in making your Will. At Mackie Legal we are well versed in asking the right questions. We all need to make a valid Will and keep it up to date.
To safeguard your affairs you should make an Enduring Power of Attorney (“EPOA”) alongside your will. An EPOA allows you to nominate how you would like to have your personal, financial and health care matters managed in the event that you lose the capacity to make those decisions.
Where necessary, at Mackie Legal we are also able to interpret Wills in Court proceedings, in order to protect the rights of beneficiaries and family members.
Why choose Mackie Legal?
At Mackie Legal we are highly skilled in the preparation of Wills and EPOA’s. We believe that effective planning for the future forms part of our service to you to ensure that the maximum level of assets are available following your death, and also that your directions are followed in the manner you wish.
Preparation and planning prevents expensive problems
Revenue Law – Tax Controversy & Transaction Tax
We provide tax consulting and tax litigation services, as well as commercially orientated tax solutions for your business needs.
By working closely with your accountant, we are best placed to understand your situation from a whole-of-business perspective to provide a cross-disciplinary solution for your business. We have demonstrated experience and expertise in all aspects of revenue law including regulatory processes, litigious action and tax effective structuring advice.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
Why choose Mackie Legal?
We draw on our extensive experience to deliver a whole-of-business solution focused on increasing business profits and protecting your assets
By working closely with your accountant, we are best placed to understand your situation from a whole-of-business perspective to provide a cross-disciplinary solution for your business. We have demonstrated experience and expertise in all aspects of revenue law including regulatory processes, litigious action and tax effective structuring advice.
Mackie Legal are experts at:
- Preparing and managing applications, responses, objections and submissions to the Australian Taxation Office ("ATO") and the office of State Revenue;
- GST and tax litigation: Specifically initiating and managing litigation in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Magistrates Court, District Court, Federal Court or Supreme Court;
- Commencing and managing Hardship Applications;
- Negotiating settlements with the ATO; and
- Applying taxation law to legal transactions and business structures: Specifically advising on tax-effective ownership structures.
Why choose Mackie Legal?
We draw on our extensive experience to deliver a whole-of-business solution focused on increasing business profits and protecting your assets
Commercially-orientated business solutions
personal property securities
The Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (“PPSA”) has been in operation for more than three years yet many businesses and individuals are still not registering their security interests in line with this legislation.
While a contractual document, such as a terms and conditions of trade, may describe your security, it is the PPSA that determines the relative priority of that security interest over other competing security interests.
Unless you register your security interest on the Personal Property Securities Register (“PPSR”), you will lose priority to another party with a competing interest and your interest will vest in the debtor on insolvency – in short, your rights over your property will be reduced to those of an unsecured creditor.
Mackie Legal can assist you by providing knowledge and practical advice. In general, the first party to register its security interest will have priority. Therefore by taking action now, you will improve the protection of your interests and minimise the risk of losing assets.
At Mackie Legal, we specialise in providing PPSA-Specific solutions including:
While a contractual document, such as a terms and conditions of trade, may describe your security, it is the PPSA that determines the relative priority of that security interest over other competing security interests.
Unless you register your security interest on the Personal Property Securities Register (“PPSR”), you will lose priority to another party with a competing interest and your interest will vest in the debtor on insolvency – in short, your rights over your property will be reduced to those of an unsecured creditor.
Mackie Legal can assist you by providing knowledge and practical advice. In general, the first party to register its security interest will have priority. Therefore by taking action now, you will improve the protection of your interests and minimise the risk of losing assets.
At Mackie Legal, we specialise in providing PPSA-Specific solutions including:
- Preparing and reviewing security agreements, attending to registration, amendment and discharge of security interests on the PPSR;
- Preparing or revising terms and conditions and equipment leases to ensure you have a registrable security interest;
- Reviewing commercial arrangements to determine whether you have any registrable security interests which are not adequately documented and protected (and investigating where others may have registered security over you);
- Advising you on PPSA requirements and implications for your business.
Secure your interest – Ownership is not paramount