Velocity Legal’s Commercial team advises business owners, founders and private companies on transactions and commercial arrangements that shape the growth of their businesses. Our focus is on structuring transactions and relationships clearly so businesses can move forward with certainty.
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Buying or selling a business involves making significant commercial decisions, with complexity around business structure, risk and timing that can affect value and outcomes throughout the transaction lifecycle.
Contracts shape how commercial relationships operate by setting out rights, obligations, and expectations between parties. Clear advice helps ensure agreements reflect commercial reality and support, rather than hinder your business objectives.
Franchising involves committing to a long-term business relationship with defined rights, obligations, and expectations. Clear legal advice helps franchisors and franchisees understand where they stand and move forward with confidence.
Intellectual property often sits at the core of a business’s value and commercial relationships. Clear legal advice helps ensure IP is properly owned, protected, and used in a way that supports growth and avoids disputes.
Mergers and acquisitions involve complex commercial decisions that can reshape ownership, control, and the future direction of a business. Clear legal guidance helps manage risk, structure transactions effectively, and support confident decision making throughout the deal process.
Operating a Registered Training Organisation involves ongoing regulatory and compliance obligations, including responding to audits, investigations, and regulatory action by ASQA. Clear legal guidance helps bring structure to these issues and supports informed decision making about how to respond and move forward.
A share purchase agreement governs how ownership in a company is transferred and how risk is allocated between the buyer and seller as control changes hands under a share sale transaction.
A shareholders agreement (and related co-ownership agreements) provides a clear framework for how a business or investment is owned, managed and protected when there is more than one owner. Whether ownership is held through a company, unit trust, partnership or another structure, clear agreements help co-owners navigate change, manage uncertainty, and reduce the risk of disputes as circumstances evolve.
Startup and capital raising work involves bringing new funding into a business while managing regulatory requirements, investor expectations, and the impact on ownership and control through different stages of growth.
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Protect Your Livelihood with the Support of Our Commercial Lawyers in Melbourne
We specialise in complex business sales and transactions, and complex shareholder disputes. When you need to make important business decisions, negotiate commercial terms, or manage legal risk, having the right business lawyer can make a significant difference. It is also important that they understand the intricacies of running a business as well as the complex nature of the legal and regulatory obligations that businesses must comply with.
At Velocity Legal, our lawyers for business understand how important your business is to you and your family, and have the legal knowledge and business experience to help you manage legal risk and protect your commercial interests.
What Laws Must Businesses in Melbourne Follow?
Navigating business law in Australia requires more than just compliance. It requires strategic foresight. Velocity Legal’s commercial solicitors provide tailored guidance specific to your business, workforce, and operational risks, helping to ensure your business is structured appropriately while managing exposure to legal risk.
Whether you’re navigating complex commercial agreements, structuring a high-value transaction, or dealing with a commercial dispute, our team can advise you on the legal and regulatory obligations that may apply to your business.
Depending on your business, you may need to register for or comply with the following legal and regulatory obligations:
An Australian Business Number (ABN), if you are carrying on or starting an enterprise.
An appropriate business structure, such as a company, trust, partnership or sole trader.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) if your annual turnover meets or exceeds $75,000, or $150,000 for not-for-profit organisations.
Tax file number requirements for the relevant business structure.
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) withholding obligations for employees and certain other payments.
Australian Consumer Law obligations, including obligations relating to misleading or deceptive conduct, consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and product safety.
Contractual obligations, whether under written agreements, oral agreements, standard terms, supplier arrangements or customer contracts.
Comply with privacy obligations, including protecting personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), where it applies.
Comply with workplace laws, including the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), in relation to wages, entitlements, and termination.
Comply with occupational health and safety obligations under Victorian legislation, including the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) and related regulations, to ensure a safe workplace.
What Support Can I Expect from Velocity Legal's Business Lawyers?
If you are starting out or you’ve been running your business for years or even decades, you can benefit from working with our commercial lawyers in Melbourne. They can assist you in managing compliance with applicable laws and preparing for potential legal issues. Some of the ways we can support you include:
Preparing and assessing legal documentation.
Identifying any potential liabilities or risks that could affect your business.
Carrying out risk assessments.
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contractual agreements between your business and its staff, suppliers, partners, and any other relevant parties.
Advising on your legal risk and potential liability in relation to data breaches.
Advising on procedures regarding the employment and termination of employees.
Advising and providing representation during commercial disputes, including court or alternative dispute resolution processes.
Having the support of our commercial solicitors can assist in reducing exposure to costly legal disputes and managing commercial risk.
If you want to manage legal risk and make informed commercial decisions, contact our team at Velocity Legal today to obtain experienced commercial legal support in Melbourne. Read Less
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