Steven Nicholson

Steven Nicholson, one of the principals of McPhee Kelshaw, has dedicated over 25 years to navigating the complexities of commercial transactions. His extensive experience equips him with a profound understanding of legal intricacies and practical insights, enabling him to provide comprehensive advice to clients. Steven's expertise extends across various facets of small business operations, encompassing employment issues, leasing, and crafting distribution and franchise agreements. His involvement ranges from the sale of multi-million dollar enterprises to local businesses, ensuring seamless transitions and strategic outcomes. Regularly advising landlords and tenants, Steven has played a pivotal role in the establishment and structuring of numerous businesses. His proficiency in drafting commercial agreements includes crafting restraints of trade, confidentiality agreements, software licenses, mortgages, and loan agreements, ensuring clients' interests are protected and business goals are achieved. Beyond transactional work, he engages in commercial litigation, handling cases such as company wind-ups and resolving disputes between directors and shareholders. Steven's commitment to the not-for-profit sector is reflected in his roles as a director and former chair of a not-for-profit organisation and his ongoing service as the solicitor for the Baptist Union of New South Wales. His extensive advisory work in this sector highlights his dedication to fostering growth and stability in a range of organisations.