Services & Experience

Our Services

When you seek our help with a commercial agreement or a business transaction, you will not get a lawyer who takes a ‘checklist’ approach. We take the time to think how this agreement or transaction affects your business and we tailor our advice to your needs. 

In many property dealings, you need not only a lawyer, but a negotiating partner. We are the right law firm to draft and review property documents and to negotiate the best outcome for you.

For example, it is a standard clause in many leases that a lessee must not bring heavy equipment onto a premises. If you need a lease of a warehouse, heavy equipment will likely move through on a daily basis (forklifts, trucks etc). With us as your lawyer, we will identify how these ‘standard’ clauses are not applicable to you and negotiate for their amendment.

Our principal, Peter Bosco, is an expert in tax law. He has a Masters Degree in Tax from the University of New South Wales, and is a regular presenter on tax topics to the Tax Institute.

We can provide you the clarity you need in one of the most challenging areas of law.

A good Wills & Estates lawyer should be well versed in all aspects of transferring assets, including commercial structures and tax consequences. Fortunately, we have significant expertise in these areas and can assist you to transfer your assets to the next generation during life and through a Will.

Our Experience

Commercial expertise

• Acting for a mining company (70% owned by the People’s Republic of China) on the termination of a joint venture and subsequent acquisition of a mining tenement. 
• Acting for a significant South Australian pastoral company on the acquisition of a multi-million dollar pastoral lease. 
• Advising a multi-million dollar Australian agribusiness company on the commencement of a joint venture with a multi-billion dollar foreign owned agribusiness company. 
• Acting for the purchaser in the acquisition of major luxury car dealership (transaction size: $12M). The purchaser was a large nationwide organisation with revenue in excess of $1 billion dollars. 
• Review and negotiation of a finance facility for a major motor vehicle dealership group with a ‘big 4’ bank (facility size: $45M). 

Property experience

• Drafting a request for tender with ancillary documents seeking expressions of interests for the provision of services to a nationwide property development firm. The matter involved dealing with executives of the client to gain an understanding of the business so the documentation could be tailored accordingly.
• Acting for a large pastoral company in the sale of a farm and preparation of vendor finance security documentation (transaction size: $3M). The other party was owned by interests connected with a well known political figure.   
• Acting for the purchaser in the due diligence and acquisition of a retirement village (transaction size: $3M).
• Drafting a request for tender for a residential developer seeking a development partner for the construction of hundreds of residential homes on a broad acre parcel.
• Reviewing documentation and preparing personal property securities registrations for the release of a guarantee given to two major banks (transaction size: $30M).

Tax law experience

• Numerous matters on state and federal taxes, including advices, objections and appeals to the AAT.
• Eliminating a $14M capital gain on the restructure of a family business.
• Negotiating a successful outcome with the ATO regarding a $2M tax dispute arising from the vesting of a trust.
• Advising on the winding up of a series of family owned companies to successfully deliver a large capital gain almost entirely free of tax. 
• Providing advice on an employee share scheme for a company subject to a takeover bid (transaction size: $8M).
• Providing various advice on the acquisition of a retirement village (transaction size: $5-6M). The matter involved advising on the appropriate structure for the transaction and advising a party on the consequences of transitioning from a not-for-profit to a for-profit entity.
• Regular presentations at professional bodies on tax topics.