Corporate & Commercial Law

We provide a wide range of professional services to meet your business needs. We provide every service with expertise and attention to detail,  to your highest level of satisfaction. 

Geelong's Business Law experts. 

Contact us for the best advice.

Our legal expertise will enable you to run your business with confidence, and our cost-effective packages will help you keep your profit margins. Come to us for dependable legal solutions to business formation, development and management. We've got the knowledge you need. 

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Startups

Competitive Business Formation Packages for Website Terms & Conditions & NDAs

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Buying & Selling

Franchises, Pre-Purchase Evaluation, Shareholder Buyouts, Mergers & Acquisitions

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Contracts

Drafting & Reviewing Contracts, Employment, Shareholder & Partnership Agreements, Litigation 

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Why choose Van Beveren Lawyers

Prepared

We plan for your success

People often start or purchase a business genuinely believing that it will be successful. Setting up a new business correctly from the start can make the difference to whether it survives the critical first year or not. 
Van Beveren Lawyers takes care of the legal requirements of launching or managing a new business for you, so you can focus on doing what you do best without the legal worries or hassles. 

Agile 

Agile business packages

Our commercial law solutions will provide you with the legal documents you need to operate your business successfully, and essential advice to avoid unnecessary delays or costly mistakes. For businesses with whom we are doing work on a continual basis, we act as in-house counsel and offer our clients a very reasonable monthly retainer fee with an all inclusive package or volume-based pricing for repeat clients.

Experienced

A team you can count on

Van Beveren Lawyers have decades of entrepreneurial knowledge and experience  you need to give your business the best chance of success. We aren't just your lawyers, we are your advisors, too. John, Van Beveren's principle lawyer, has both an MBA specialising in financial policy, and a PhD in Economcs and Commerce and a senior lecturer in marketing - a formidable level of expertise that any startups and business can rely upon.

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Partners in Your Success

Need regular Business Law support? Take your pick from an ongoing monthly retainer, volume-based or fixed flat pricing for regular business clients. 
When Van Beveren Lawers become partners in your ongoing success, you have 24 hour on-call access to legal advice, legal precendents, board support, management advice, strategic risk advice, employment and consumer law advice, contract drafting and negotiation.
  • Fixed Price Projects

    For straightforward matters such as issuing a letter, reviewing a contract, or drafting an agreement, we quote the cost up front. This means that you won’t be charged on a time-cost basis and will know exactly what you’re paying before we do the work.

  • In House Counsel

    For businesses with whom we do work on a continual basis, we act as in-house counsel and offer our clients a monthly retainer fee, with an all inclusive package. Contact us to discuss your needs. 

  • Volume-based Work

    We create a specific menu of legal services, with a fixed price for each item, for businesses that we work with on a repeat basis.

Property Law

Commercial Tenancies, Conveyancing, Covid-19 Rent Relief for Landlords & Tenants


Commercial Law

Corporate & commercial litigation, Legislative requirements, including corporate structure, governance and compliance


Employment Law

Employment contracts, Employee rights, & unfair dismissal, employee share & option schemes


Business Law Packages

Best Value Startup Packages from $7990

Business Startup Package

Are you starting a business and not sure about what legal documents and protections you need? We offer a full suite of solutions to help your new venture succeed.

Timely Legal Advice

  • 5 x 30 minute consultations with an agile lawyer
  • Online or in the office
  • Discuss all your business formation and management concerns and needs

Founder Documents

  • Company constitution
  • Shareholder agreement
  • Co-Founder agreement
  • Advisory agreement
  • SAFE agreements (available upon request)

Business Formation

  • Company Constitution
  • Business Name advice & Registration
  • Incorporation of a company including;
  • ACN
  • ABN

Essential Contracts

  • Terms & Conditions for your website
  • Privacy policy
  • Confidentiality agreement (NDA)
  • Employee contract or Service contract

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We want to know your needs exactly so that we can provide the perfect solution. Let us know what you want and we’ll do our best to help. 
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Complete Business Law Services

Business Formation

  • Business name & company registration
  • Partnerships, trusts and corporations
  • Shareholders agreements
  • Joint venture agreements
  • Preliminary agreements & negotiation
  • Investor agreements

Change Management

  • Pre-purchase evaluation
  • Shareholder buyouts
  • Corporate mergers & acquisitions 
  • Investor exists
  • Lending agreements & the securities market
  • Guarantees and security documents
  • Business valuation advice

Protecting Your Brand

  • Trademark applications
  • Copyright and intellectual property law
  • Confidentiality agreements and NDAs
  • Licensing & franchises

In-House Counsel

  • Drafting & reviewing contracts
  • Consumer Law
  • Tax law including capital gains tax
  • Debt collection
  • Superannuation compliance

Related Services

  • Representing business partners in property settlements after separation
  • Estate and succession planning
  • Bankruptcy and administration

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