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With a commitment to truly listening and addressing your legal needs, Sound Counsel provides clear, practical advice aimed at empowering you to make informed decisions with confidence. Our experience extends across workplace relations, employment, corporate, structuring, and property law, serving both businesses and individuals with reliable and honest guidance. For businesses, we assist at every stage—from starting up, through acquisitions and sales—offering comprehensive corporate and commercial advice. We support your workforce management needs, including employment documentation, compliance with pay regulations, and effective implementation of reward and incentive structures. Our services also include facilitation of international workforce engagement and global mobility for your Australian team. When interpersonal conflicts arise, we provide access to independent mediators and investigators specialising in workplace grievances and misconduct matters. For individuals and couples, we help structure investments efficiently, using legal vehicles to optimise borrowing capacity and manage tax obligations lawfully. Our expertise covers property transactions across all Australian States and Territories, estate planning including drafting wills to safeguard your wishes, and setup of Self Managed Super Funds for greater control over retirement savings. Sound Counsel brings up to two decades of experience complemented by legal qualifications from leading Australian universities. We have worked with a diverse client base, ranging from multinational corporations and ASX-listed companies to SMEs, government bodies, startups, and individuals building and protecting their property portfolios. Recognising the personal significance of conveyancing, estate planning, and wills, we approach each matter with diligence and empathy. Committed to transparency, we strive to offer fixed-fee arrangements wherever possible, ensuring our clients face no unexpected costs. Through conscientious, solutions-oriented service, we aim to be your trusted sounding board for all legal decisions.
We provide comprehensive legal support tailored to businesses, including drafting and negotiating contracts with suppliers and service providers to ensure clear and enforceable terms. Our expertise extends to preparing privacy policies that clearly outline how your business handles customers' personal information, ensuring compliance with relevant privacy laws. We also assist in protecting your business interests by drafting cease and desist letters to address breaches of intellectual property rights or restraints of trade by employees or third parties. Additionally, we prepare key corporate documents such as non-disclosure agreements to safeguard confidential information, founders agreements to clarify roles and equity among startup founders, and shareholders agreements to establish robust governance frameworks for your company.
With extensive experience in property investment structuring, the firm advises clients on optimising their borrowing capacity through strategic use of corporate and trust entities. This approach not only enhances the ability to acquire multiple properties but also provides essential asset protection and tax efficiency, tailored to individual investment goals. The team also offers comprehensive estate planning and will drafting services, ensuring clients’ assets are preserved and distributed according to their wishes. Their conveyancing expertise supports smooth property transactions across Australia, while assistance with setting up compliant self-managed superannuation funds empowers clients to take control of their retirement planning.
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