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Kreston Dormers Legal take a proactive approach with our quality assured legal services and understand the importance of offering practical, honest, prompt and cost effective advice.

Our lawyers provide legal advice to businesses and high net worth individuals, and undertake general and complex business and commercial transactions and disputes, spanning a range of industries and sectors.

Business and commercial law

Commercial services
Kreston Dormers Legal provides comprehensive commercial legal services to help you negotiate your way through all stages of the business life cycle from start up and expansion, through to merger or disposal. Our specialist commercial lawyers can help business owners ensure compliance with legislation and also protect personal assets from the risks associated with doing business.

We will review, negotiate and prepare all necessary contracts on your behalf to best protect your business assets and intellectual property. Our comprehensive commercial law services include:

review and advise on commercial leases
purchase and sale of businesses, companies and business
investments
structures and restructures, trust and joint ventures, and
dissolving companies
franchising and licensing
asset protection
business and personal succession planning
commercial and corporate disputes
debt recovery and credit management
distribution and service agreements

We aim to achieve the best result possible for you in the most cost effective and commercially sensitive manner.

Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
We take a cost effective approach to dispute resolution and litigation, where possible, our focus is on negotiating and resolving disputes before significant costs are incurred. If early resolution is not possible, we have the experience and expertise to take your matter to hearing. At all times, we are working with your best interests whether acting for plaintiffs or defendants.

We have acted on behalf of our clients in areas involving corporation’s law, professional negligence, contractual disputes, insolvency, trade practices and debt recovery.

In the event that a dispute does arise, Kreston Dormers Legal can assist individuals and businesses in dispute resolution and litigation services. Disputes may be any grievance in respect of the other party’s action or inaction. Whether you have suffered a monetary or non-monetary loss, our team of specialist lawyers will help you negotiate the legal system.

Personal legal services

Wills and estate planning
The importance of a valid legal Will cannot be stressed enough. It is likely to be one of the most important documents you sign in your lifetime so you need to ensure it accurately reflects how you would like your assets to be distributed to your beneficiaries following your passing.

Making a Will is often a highly complex task that requires the services of a qualified lawyer to ensure it is valid so your estate can be distributed as quickly and as cost effectively as possible. More importantly, a valid Will is imperative to ensure that your assets are distributed in accordance with your testamentary wishes and not that of the state. Without a Will, your estate may be frozen and distribution.

To avoid expensive and unnecessary litigation, our team of specialist lawyers can assist you in preparing and drafting a valid Will. We are well practiced in simplifying the estate planning process to meet your needs.

Superannuation and trusts
Kreston Dormers Legal provides in depth knowledge and expertise on the legal issues governing superannuation and trust law and can provide legal advice and assistance to employees, beneficiaries and companies on all aspects of superannuation and trusts. Specifically, our superannuation lawyers can provide legal advice on issues involving superannuation plans, vesting, funding, discrimination, payment options, and entitlement to benefits. Our breadth of experience can also assist you in filing claims for compensation, during court trials and litigations.

Property law
Kreston Dormers Legal offer a full range of property services, having advised and acted in relation to construction and development agreements, commercial leasing, sales and acquisitions, financing, stamp duty and GST. Whether your property transaction is a simple acquisition or a complex construction and development, our team have the breath of expertise and experience to assist you.

For more information, please contact Kreston Dormers Legal’s director and principal lawyer if you would like to discuss how we can assist you:

      Justeen Dormer
      + 612 9874 8038
      j.dormer@legal.krestondormers.com