New Structures

We can establish new companies tailored to your requirements, including proprietary companies, public companies limited by guarantee and special purpose companies.  

Our company establishment service includes the preparation and lodgement of the required ASIC documentation, together with the company constitution, resolutions, registers, share certificates, consents and minutes needed to get your company up and running. 

Our services also include: 

• New company establishments: establishing proprietary companies, public companies, special purpose companies. 
• Company loans: preparing 25-year secured Div 7A loan agreements, or 7-year unsecured Div 7A loan agreements. 
• Corporate trustee companies: establishing companies to act as corporate trustees for trusts, including SMSFs. 
• Company constitutions: preparing tailored company constitutions or variations.  
• Company Powers of Attorney: preparing Powers of Attorney to authorise individuals to act on behalf of a company. 
• Share sales: see commercial law for more information. 
• Other company items: such as share transfer and issue, officeholder appointments and resignations. 

We can assist with establishing new trusts tailored to your circumstances and objectives. Our services include: 

• Discretionary trust establishment: establishing discretionary trusts and preparing tailored trust deeds. 
• Unit Trust establishment: establishing unit trusts and documenting the ownership of units. 
• Corporate trustees: establishing corporate trustees to hold and manage trust assets. 
• Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements [LRBAs]: preparing and advising on LRBAs and related loan and security documentation for the acquisition of assets through a trust structure. 
• Trust deeds: preparing tailored trust deeds and related establishment documentation.  
• Trust variations: assisting with changes to existing trust structures, including changes of trustee, appointor and beneficiaries, deeds of variation, deeds of vesting, changes to trust powers and other amendments to trust deeds. 
• Foreign Beneficiary Exclusions: incorporating provisions to exclude foreign beneficiaries to address relevant tax and state revenue considerations. 

We can assist with establishing self-managed superannuation funds and putting the appropriate structure and documentation in place from the outset. Our services include: 

• SMSF establishments: establishing new self-managed superannuation funds and preparing the documents required to establish the fund. 
• SMSF trust deeds [+ updates]: preparing tailored SMSF trust deeds to govern the operation of the fund. 
• Corporate trustees: establishing companies to act as corporate trustees of SMSFs. 
• Individual trustees: assisting with the establishment and appointment of individual trustees where appropriate. 
• Trustee appointments + changes: preparing documentation for the appointment, resignation and replacement of SMSF trustees. 
• SMSF rollovers + transfers: assisting with the legal documentation required to transfer or rollover superannuation interests into a newly established SMSF. 
• Binding death benefit nominations: preparing and reviewing binding death benefit nominations to document how a member’s superannuation benefits are to be dealt with on death. 
• SMSF loans: preparing loan documents for limited recourse borrowing arrangements.  
• Estate Planning: assisting with Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney and other Estate Planning documents to complement the SMSF structure. Find out more here. 
• SMSF variations: assisting with changes to existing SMSF structures, including changes to trustees, members and trust deed provisions. 
• Enduring Power of Attorney for SMSF member tailored to your needs