Practice Areas

You can be confident of unqualified commitment from our dedicated team, in providing the following legal services:

Commercial Business Services:
Scanlan Carroll’s experienced commercial lawyers offer a range of commercial and corporate legal services including:

Transactional Services

• Share sales
• Asset sales
• Shareholder agreements
• Memorandum of understanding / Heads of agreement / Terms sheets
• Supply agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Service agreements
• Dissolution agreements
• Consultancy agreements
• Loan / Financing agreements
• Succession agreements
• Confidentiality agreements (Deeds)
• Joint venture agreements
• Deeds of indemnity and guarantee
• Management agreements
• Partnership agreements (individuals, companies, trusts)
• Sale of business
• Licensing agreements
• Trust deeds

Commercial Law

• Trade Practices Advice
• Corporate Governance
• Shareholder Rights
• Due Diligence
• Insolvency Advice

Business Structures

• General restructuring advice
• Partnerships (individuals, corporate, trusts)
• Discretionary trusts
• Unit, hybrid and protective trusts
• Corporations
• Joint ventures
• Franchising

Family Law:

Our family law team provide the following advice and services:

• Matrimonial property disputes
• De facto advice
• Prenuptial agreements
• Binding financial agreements
• Cohabitation agreements

Workplace Relations:

In this ever changing field Scanlan Carroll’s lawyers stay up to date with legislative and policy developments to provide the following services:

• Employment contracts
• Service / Consultancy agreements
• Employment disputes
• Breach of contract advice
• Equal opportunity disputes
• Retrenchment, redundancy, termination disputes
• Restraints of trade advice

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Scanlan Carroll’s litigation lawyers have hard earned experience which they employ to provide practical and strategic advice in these areas:

• Litigation in all courts and jurisdictions
• Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
• Debt matters
• Contract enforcement
• Corporate Insolvency
• Bankruptcy

Estate Planning

Scanlan Carroll take a holistic approach to estate planning and business succession and offer advice and services in the following areas:

• Wills
• Testamentary trusts
• Probate
• Letters of administration
• Powers of attorney
• Disputes over deceased estates
• Business succession planning
• Family trusts
• Superannuation

Intellectual Property

Scanlan Carroll’s intellectual property lawyers provide advice across all forms of intellectual property including proactive strategic advice as well and assistance with registration and enforcement of rights;

• Trademark advice (including registration and opposition)
• Copyright advice
• Licensing agreements and assignment of intellectual property
• Deeds of confidentiality
• Domain name advice
• Advice in relation to registered patents and designs

Property

Our property Lawyers can assist with all aspects of property law, including:

• Residential and commercial sale and acquisition
• Retail leasing
• Commercial leasing
• Adverse possession claims
• Development advice including subdivisions and Owners Corporation advice
• Construction