Gaze Burt is a progressive law firm, with seven partners committed to a close working relationship with our clients based on quality, service and integrity.

We offer expertise over a wide range of commercial law and we have a commercial law team who major in this area of practice. This team is part of the wider Gaze Burt firm, and is able to call on those wider resources to meet needs outside the strictly commercial area.

When you consult Gaze Burt, you will receive individual attention. We are committed to:

• Developing an understanding of your business.
• Providing sound, practical advice.
• Delivering commercial solutions tailored for your business.
• Carrying out your work quickly and efficiently.
• Being contactable.

We invite you to contact Les Allen for more assistance.

Our commercial law team can assist in all areas of commercial law including:

Commercial

• Business and property sales and acquisitions
• Partnerships
• Joint ventures
• Business agreements of all kinds
• Leases and tenancies
• Intellectual property (includes trademarks and copyright)
• Franchising and licensing
• Financial securities
• Insurance law
• Commercial negotiations
• Mediation and dispute resolution
• Employment agreements and disputes
  

Resource Management

• Applications and appeals
• Compliance advice/risk management
• Water rights and environmental issues
• Compensation for land acquisitions

Public Offers

• Securities Act advice
• Preparing and reviewing prospectuses
  

Company Law

• Formations
• Share purchases
• Amalgamations and reconstructions
• Constitutions
• Qualifying companies
• Receiverships and liquidations
• Directors’ liability
• Statutory compliance and risk management
  

Taxation

• Income tax planning
• General taxation advice
• Income tax & GST disputes and objections
• GST advice

Non Profit Bodies

• Societies and Club incorporations
• Charities
• Churches
• Mediation
  

Retirement Villages

• Advising owners of retirement villages
• Advising retirement villages residents