Investment Structuring and Business Structuring Advice
Contact Ascendia Lawyers for expert investment structuring advice and business structuring advice in North Brisbane and across the Sunshine Coast. At a client's direction, Ascendia's team of law experts can establish the following entities and provide legal advice when it comes to:
- Private Companies
- Discretionary and Family Trusts
- Unit Trusts
- Bare Trusts
- Hybrid Trusts
- Self Managed Superannuation Funds
- Partnership Agreements
Our team can work closely with your accountant and financial adviser to make any changes needed to these entities under advisement.
Business Structuring and Investment Structuring Advice Near You
If you need to find a business structuring lawyer, contact Ascendia Lawyers in North Brisbane, Maroochydore and Noosa. Our experts can provide up-to-date, invaluable legal advice to ensure your business affairs are in order and above-board. Our structuring specialists have all the knowledge and experience to ensure compliance with all the legal obligations which come along with being an employer.
Legal Considerations and Obligations for Employers
The way an employer structures their business and investments, and the arrangements between their business' investment projects and family and/or themselves individually, has a substantial impact on a number of areas, including tax, asset protection and business efficiency matters.
The business regulatory and legal environment changes over time, and an employer's business arrangements need to respond and adapt to these changes. Business arrangements need to meet changing legal compliance requirements and commercial standards, while also enabling an employer to maximise business opportunities - to protect and maximise the value of their valuable business and commercial assets.
Ascendia investment and business structuring lawyers are happy to provide fixed-fee business and investment structuring services. Contact Ascendia Lawyers for more information and to discuss your specific needs.
Business & Investment Structures Business Sale & Agreements Shareholder, Partnership and Unitholder Agreements Asset Protection Legal Services
What does Structuring Impact?
The business and investment structures that you have and use, and the arrangements between them, when undertaking your business or investment project, have a substantial impact on:
- Income Tax Liabilities
- Payroll Tax Liabilities
- Capital Gain Taxes Liabilities
- Eligible Termination Payment Tax Liabilities
- Timing of Tax Liabilities
- Third Party Claimants Access to Assets.
- Your access to capital within your business and investment structures.
- Risk or exposure to third party claimants such as employees, ATO, unsecured creditors, statutory or common law claimants (including QBCC and FWA facilitated claimants).
Increased compliance costs and/or decreased opportunities are often unintended consequences of business structuring (and re-structuring) decisions made without referening to all the available alternatives (all the types of legal entities available) by an internal stakeholder who is focused on getting an entity set up quickly. These detrimental effects can also be the result of these decisions being taken without checking recent changes in legislation (for example small company tax rates are now lower than large company rates) or to all the important considerations (for example corporate insolvency risks and asset protection, as well as income tax considerations).
Our asset protection specialists are able to provide Ascendia clients with fixed price investment and business structuring advice and implementation services.
Our experts are also able to provide reasonably accurate estimates of savings and opportunities we can identify in any amendments to provide you with recommendations to current business and investment structures and arrangements needing improvement.
At Ascendia, we focus on reviewing your business and investment structures to ensure they remain a good match to what you actually need now, and that they make use of today's opportunities presented by your current circumstances (rather than a standard one-size-fits-all approach, or an approach that fitted in the past, but is no longer suitable.
We only recommend making amendments when there is a definite quantified, significant financial benefit above and beyond the costs.
Legal Instruments
Our business and investment structuring specialists use a range of legal instruments to ensure that an asset structuring strategy provides the right fit for the client's circumstances, including getting the right balance needed in:
- Asset protection
- Tax efficiency
- Convenience and ease of use
- Privacy
The kinds of legal instruments we use include:
1. Loan Agreements
- Bare Trusts
- SMSF's
- Companies (including Div. 7A compliant)
- Trusts
- Including matters regarding special and custom clauses.
2. Business Law Advice
Comprehensive advice pertaining to business law matters.
3. Legal Entities
- Companies
- Family Trusts
- Company Trustees
- Unit Trusts
- SMSF's
- Bare Trusts
- Undisclosed Trusts
- Hybrid Trusts
- Partnerships
4. Security
- Registered Mortgages
- Caveates
- Guarantees
5. Powers of Attorney
6. SMSF funds
7. Succession Planning
8. Tax Planning
In cooperation with your tax accountant.
9. Agreements
- Shareholder
- Unitholder
- Partnership
- Binding Financial.