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07 Jul 2025
How to Protect your Personal Assets as a Business Owner
Introduction As a business owner, you put a lot into your work. Time, effort, and money are the main foundations of a...
16 Apr 2022
Vendor Finance Agreements - A Basic Summary
What is it? A vendor finance agreement is a contract between a buyer and a seller, whereby the seller agrees to assist with funding...
06 Feb 2022
Buy Sell Agreements – When Tragedy Strikes an Owner
Co-owners structure their ownership interests in many ways. The impact of tax laws, specific industry regulation and an owner’s desire to...
01 Jul 2021
Asset purchase agreement - Something to consider
An asset purchase agreement is a contract which governs the sale of business assets from one party to another...
25 Oct 2020
Trademarks: Tips for Protecting your Point of Difference
Trademarks are a staple of the commercial world. Some of the most well-known and well-loved icons of commerce are...
18 Aug 2020
IP Rights: When Does Your Business Own What Employees Create?
All businesses create value. They may do it in different ways, but the creation of value is what underpins commerce...
01 Feb 2019
Protecting Commercial Information: Confidentiality Agreements and the Duty of Confidence
Introduction Confidential information may not be something that most people associate with ordinary business. However...
07 Jan 2019
What is a Guarantor?
Introduction In any commercial agreement or transaction, financial security is key. All parties to an agreement want...
01 Oct 2018
Manufacturing Agreements - What You Need To Consider
What is it? A manufacturing agreement is a contract between the developer or owner of a product and the person or...
08 Aug 2018
Business Management Agreements - What You Need To Know
What is it? A business management agreement is a contract used with the owner of a business engages another party to...
14 Jul 2018
Service Agreements - 5 Key Points
What is it? A service agreement typically refers to the contract between an employer and a person or company hired by...
16 Feb 2018
Customer Terms and Conditions - 6 Key Considerations
What is it? Customer terms and conditions are the rules that set out the rights and responsibilities of each party to...
07 Nov 2017
Supplier Agreements - 5 Key Points
What is it? A supplier agreement is the contract between the supplier of a product or service and the person or...
20 Sep 2017
Share Sale Agreements - 6 Key Points
What is it? As the name suggests, a share sale agreement is a contract whereby one party agrees to purchase shares in...
02 Aug 2017
Put and Call Option Agreements - The Key Considerations
What is it? A put and call option agreement is an agreement that one party will purchase property from the other...
11 Jun 2017
Partnership Agreements - 6 Key Things To Consider
What is it? A partnership agreement is a contract between two or more people who go into business together. It sets...
10 May 2017
Option Agreements - 6 Important Points
What is it? An option agreement grants one party the exclusive right to purchase a specific asset or property at a...
15 Apr 2017
Mortgage Agreements - 6 Things To Consider
A mortgage agreement is a contract between a borrower (the ‘mortgagor’) and a lender (the ‘mortgagee’) whereby real...
07 Feb 2017
Asset Purchase Agreements - 6 Key Points
What is it? An asset purchase agreement is a contract which governs the sale of business assets from one party to...
08 Sep 2016
Unitholders Agreements Stand Up
Trading trusts, typically unit trusts, are regularly used to structure multiple owners’ entitlements in businesses. The business owners...
01 Apr 2016
Partnership Dissolutions - What Happens?
When business people enter into open ended partnerships, which is most common, then generally any partner can dissolve the partnership by...
01 Mar 2016
Director Duties: The Basics
What are the key duties of a director of a company? As a director of a company, you will be asked to make many decisions in relation to the
01 Feb 2016
Build Your Business To Sell
Owners of growing businesses should build to sell, whether they intend to or not. They must see their business...
01 Nov 2015
Company Directors Beware! 10 Signals Your Company Is Insolvent
As a director, you must stop your company from trading if it is unable to meet its debts. Otherwise, as a director...
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