Cooney Lees Morgan


Helping you make better decisions about entering, operating or exiting your business

Small start-up or large corporation, your business operates in a complex web of relationships and responsibilities.  Cooney Lees Morgan’s commercial specialists are pragmatic, sleeves-rolled-up, business advisers.  We’ll be with you, every step of the way, helping you achieve the outcomes you want.

Establishing or buying a business

  • Business sale and purchase agreements
  • Incorporation of new companies
  • Complying with Securities legislation and regulations
  • Prospectuses and investment statements
  • Shareholder/partnership agreements
  • Joint ventures
  • Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
  • Trading trusts
  • Financing arrangements
  • Franchising

Business operations

  • Complying with commercial legislation and regulations (such as the Commerce Act, the Consumer Guarantees Act and the Fair Trading Act)
  • Income tax and GST issues
  • Establishing standard terms and conditions
  • Managing business risk
  • Insurance
  • Financing and guarantees
  • Franchise Agreements
  • Trademark, copyright or intellectual property issues
  • Contracts for supplying/acquiring goods or services
  • International trade contracts
  • Tenders
  • Disputes with customers or suppliers
  • Employment/independent contractor contracts
  • eCommerce/internet issues
  • Disputes between business partners
  • Restructuring

Closing a business

  • Selling a business
  • Winding up a business
  • Managing insolvency, liquidation and receivership