Entity Establishment
Whether you’re starting a new business or growing an existing one, you need expert legal advice about entity establishment and the best ways to protect your personal assets.
If you’re ready to grow your business and concerned about personal liability and protecting your assets, you may need to consider setting up a company and/or trust. Business growth and the establishment of new entities and structures brings legal considerations, including increased documentation, taxation and financial implications, personal and business succession planning and other issues that require specialised legal advice.
How we can help
Our highly knowledgeable business lawyers are experienced in all types of entity establishment and can guide you through the various considerations when incorporating or setting up a new business, to help you understand and implement the best options for your business structure and financial future.
As well as company incorporation, we also advise on trust establishment for discretionary trusts and unit trusts. Trust setup can be a complex topic, so we’re here to answer any questions you may have about your unique situation and requirements.
In addition, we regularly advise on all aspects of establishing and managing self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). When clients are looking at establishing an SMSF, we advise on:
- establishing, reviewing and amending governing rules of SMSFs.
- winding up of SMSFs.
- changing trustees, including special purpose SMSF corporate trustee.
- preparing pension documentation.
- preparing and reviewing death benefit nominations.
- preparing and reviewing enduring powers of attorney.
- other tailored succession/ estate planning documentation.
- SMSF borrowing, including third party and related party limited recourse borrowing arrangements.
- legal issues in relation to SMSF compliance.
- property developments using SMSFs.
Standard documentation for business entity establishment
We provide fast, efficient and secure services for entity establishment and incorporation with standardised documents and transparent pricing available through our Online Services Smarter Law client portal.
Our standardised documents for entity establishment include:
- company incorporation
- proprietary limited companies
- public companies limited by shares
- public companies limited by guarantee
- replacement company constitutions.
We also prepare standardised discretionary and unit trust deeds in consultation with clients.
For clients who would like a more personalised entity establishment service for complex situations, we also offer bespoke legal advice through consultation on request, including for discretionary trusts, companies and SMSFs.
Our entity establishment experience
- Trusts, including establishment of discretionary trusts, unit trusts and hybrid trusts, continuing administration, dealing with succession of control of trusts, special disability trusts, trust deed reviews, advice relating to trust interpretation and trust disputes.
- Company incorporation, including establishment of operating entities and entities to act as trustees for discretionary trusts, unit trusts and self-managed superannuation funds.
- Structuring international wealth for asset protection, including structuring global wealth, coordinating the international advice and dealing with international estate planning and estate administration.
