OUR SERVICES

SGL has extensive expertise in the following areas of practice:

• Start-up advice for franchisors

• Franchisee acquisition advice

• Franchising Code of Practice compliance

• Drafting Franchise Agreements

• Drafting intellectual property licences

• Franchise structuring

• Franchise sales and changeovers

• Leasing and licensing for franchisors

• Drafting Master Franchise Agreements

• Undertaking second opinion work for solicitors and/or franchisors
  

• Sales and purchases of businesses

• Sales and purchases of companies

• Business mergers and reconstructions

• Business structuring

• Business finance transactions

• Securities

• Distribution Agreements

• Licence Agreements

• Commerce Act/Fair Trading Act Opinions
  

• Franchising disputes

• Partner and shareholder disputes

• Mediations
  

• Drafting Employment Agreements

• Drafting Consulting Agreements

• Commercial, industrial and residential

• Commercial, industrial and retail leasing

• Property financing transactions
  

• Advising on and drafting Wills

• Enduring Powers of Attorney

• Estate Planning

• Deeds of Trust

• Gift statements and programmes
  

• Stewart Germann is a Notary Public and is able to witness documents for use in overseas jurisdictions