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20 Oct 2022
A Buyer’s Guide – Protecting Intellectual Property in Business Sales
Intellectual property (IP) often represents a business’s most valuable asset. It is crucial for the continued...
22 Sep 2022
Product Liability: What Manufacturers, Importers, and Vendors Need to Know
Product liability is an area of law with some unusual features. In fact, there’s relatively little awareness...
18 Aug 2022
Service Agreements: A Service Provider’s Perspective
Service agreements are an important part of business. Often, they are considered from a...
18 Jun 2022
When a Director Departs: What Executives Need to Consider
In a previous article, we spoke about restraint clauses. But we didn’t cover restraint clauses in relation to company directors, who want..
13 Jun 2022
Partnership and Shareholders’ Agreements: What You Need to Know
Businesses often start as an idea. Sometimes, they start as a personal idea that you have cultivated and pursued over the course of...
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...
27 Feb 2022
Environmental Crimes: Liability for Commercial Environmental Damage
Environmental considerations form the parameters of almost all commercial conduct. Those parameters are set by numerous laws, which have...
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...
28 Jan 2022
Cyber Crimes in Queensland
The laws surrounding cyber crimes are more relevant now, than ever. Cyber crimes can affect businesses in a plethora of ways. It is poss...
20 Dec 2021
Embezzlement Laws in Queensland: How do They Affect You?
Embezzlement is a white collar crime with a bit of a reputation. Generally, embezzlement is associated with greed, and reserved for films...
29 Nov 2021
Electoral Finance Laws for Business
Democracy is a dynamic system of governance that places everyone in a position of influence. It’s only natural, too, for individuals in a...
30 Oct 2021
Market Manipulation: what it is and how to avoid it
Financial crimes are gaining wider recognition among the business community, and the community at large. However, market manipulation...
30 Sep 2021
Money Laundering: Queensland’s Law
Money laundering is something that has been in the news a bit lately. During the lead up to the Royal Commission into Banking, a lot was
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...
04 May 2021
Expedient Expansion: The Franchisor’s Perspective
The franchise model of business is well-known. We see it in a wide variety of forms, within industries from gardening and fast food...
15 Apr 2021
Franchising: Risks, Rewards, and Rights
Franchising arrangements form the basis of a very common business model. Some of the best known franchises exist in...
24 Mar 2021
Protecting Privacy: Strategies to Comply with Privacy Laws
Privacy is important. But there are many situations in which it is necessary to share or collect personal...
04 Mar 2021
Brand Protection: Strategies for Defending your Rights
Different businesses gain value in different ways. But in almost all cases, a business’s brand accounts for a...
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...
13 Sep 2020
Commercial Risk Management: Dodging Disputes
Every commercial activity carries with it some risk of dispute. Sometimes, that risk is so slight as to be...
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...
28 Jun 2020
Dealing With Disputes: Some Helpful Hints
Disputes are commonplace in the business world. Whether between suppliers, clients, customers, or competitors, most...
08 Jun 2020
Misleading Conduct and Marketing: The Rules of Proper Promotion
Marketing: it’s effectively the basis of all successful businesses. Whether you’re selling goods or services, your...
16 Mar 2020
Directors’ Duties: How do They Affect your Business?
As a small to medium business owner, you’ve no doubt got a lot of regulations to contend with. Almost all commercial...
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