Personal Experience
Stephen always wants the absolute best outcome for his clients, who trust him to provide strategic and commercial advice across a range of sectors. He is well known for his professionalism, attention to detail and dedication to developing valuable long-term relationships. Stephen has wide and deep experience in commercial law with particular interests in structuring and restructuring, franchising and commercial agreements, revenue law, charity and not-for-profit law, and industrial, commercial and retail property including leasing.
His expertise includes –
Commercial
- buying and selling businesses of all sizes, in many industries, through asset sale, share sale and other methods;
- advising on business structure, issues faced by businesses, and solutions for those issues;
- advising franchisors on designing franchise and other related systems, resolving intellectual property, security and other challenges in systems – and using those skills to act expertly for franchisees as well;
- Commercial agreements of various types including trading terms and conditions, shareholder agreements and agreements for exploitation of intellectual property;
Revenue
- analysis of complex GST issues (in conjunction with specialist consultants) in the context of major property and commercial transactions
- duty advice, submissions, applications for exemption and objections
Not-for-profit and charities
- advising substantial not-for-profits and charities on their commercial law, structuring and other issues – including advising about tax concession and DGR status, and capital and recurring grants – and using that knowledge to assist developing charities as well;
- advising a major religious denomination about internal structuring issues, disciplinary procedures, and relationships between their internal elements;
Property
- negotiating for the sale and purchase of commercial, industrial and retail property
- advising and negotiating for landlord and tenant in relation to all aspects of commercial, industrial and retail leasing
Stephen is the Legal Practitioner Director of the incorporated legal practice Commercial Law Pty Ltd ABN 47 665 828 115 trading as SJR Commercial Law, which is the Queensland member of the hunt & hunt Legal Group.
