Welcome to our restructuring series. Asset protection is a major driver of restructuring and involves different components of your business separating from each other and also separating your assets from your business risks. All businesses begin at a time where circumstances of that moment determine the structure chosen. As businesses develop, [...]
Last Thursday, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas announced the Budget plans for 2021/22. The property sector in particular will be significantly impacted as a result of the announcements made. The table below outlines the changes announced and proposed start date. Tax Change Effective on Stamp Duty Premium stamp duty introduced Premium [...]
Pointon Partners are pleased to have acted on the sale of Greg Tucker & Associates Pty Ltd (GTA) to New York Stock Exchange listed Stantec Inc. Melbourne based GTA operates a traffic engineering business and Stantec is a professional services company in the design and consulting industry. The deal was [...]
We are increasingly acting in transactions where the purchaser is requiring that the vendor, or the vendors if more than one, continue to be employed in the business post settlement. This is a function of the knowledge oriented nature of today’s economy where value lies in intangibles such as specialized skills, [...]
Our team members at Pointon Partners are regularly requested by clients to establish not for profit bodies. The activities proposed to be undertaken may be charitable in nature, community oriented or the body may be being established to operate as a sporting club. Or possibly to act as a peak sporting [...]
In today's world, brand management and protection strategies are the key to the success of many businesses. Business owners are continuing to move their businesses online focusing on remote sales and developing new remote products and services in this new world. New markets are also opening up to many businesses [...]
We are pleased to note that Thomas Abraham of our firm has recently been appointed into the Law Institute of Victoria’s State Taxes Committee. Thomas looks forward to further involvement in discussing law and policy related to the administration of taxes by the State Revenue Office (“SRO”). Prior to commencing at [...]
It has been gratifying to see that the horse racing codes, both thoroughbred and harness, have been able to continue to stage meetings throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. The implementation of strict bio-security measures for participants and other measures, such as the absence of crowds, has meant that the racing product [...]
In 1989, former Prime Minister Paul Keating boasted for being able to garner public support for difficult reforms when he pronounced: “I’ll guarantee if you walk into any pet shop in Australia, the resident galah will be talking about micro-economic policy.” Thirty years on, with the initial headwinds of the [...]
As of 1st May 2020, Tony Pointon has been appointed Chairman of LAWorld. ‘’I am very honored to be appointed as the Chairman of LAWorld which is a premier international legal network of law firms throughout the world. LAWorld offers exceptional networking opportunities for our lawyers in their chosen [...]
