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Melbourne Business LawyerWhether you’re a start-up, planning to buy or sell a business, or looking for advice on a business dispute, our team of expert business lawyers can help.

We have been serving Australian businesses for many of years, and have extensive experience across all the industries our clients operate in. We offer a wide range of practical legal solutions for individuals, start-ups and small to medium sized enterprises.

Our team of business lawyers can help you with:

  • Business structures: If you are establishing a new business enterprise we can help you make sure that you are setting the business up soundly, whether by partnership, joint venture, company, trust or franchise. If you’re looking to restructure your business we can help with partnership dissolutions and corporate restructures.
  • Business contracts: Our commercial lawyers can prepare or review all types of legal contracts including purchase or sale of business, Put and Call Options, franchise agreements, supply agreements, service agreements, distribution agreements, partnership agreements, commercial contracts. We’ll make sure that the contract terms and conditions are suitable for your business now and into the future and ensure that due diligence standards are met. For buyers, we ensure that you get what you pay for – for sellers, we help minimise risks associated with selling a business.
  • Commercial disputes and commercial litigation: We offer dispute resolution services and business litigation covering a wide range of problems including breach of contract, building and property disputes, debt recovery, copyright infringement, partnership disputes and corporations law.
  • Corporations law: We can assist with shareholders agreements, advice on corporate governance, documenting company administrations.
  • Franchises: If you’re looking to buy into a franchise we can help you go through the franchise agreement and franchisor disclosure documents to make sure that you are aware of all of the issues that could make or break your new business.
  • Copyright, trademarks and patents: We can help you manage and enforce your intellectual property rights, including litigation where needed. We can also help you with registering designs, patents and trademarks.
  • Property and leasing: We can assist with retail leasing and commercial leasing for both landlords and tenants. We can also assist with the sale or purchase of commercial property.
  • Commercial law and small business legal advice: We offer small business legal help in a wide range of matters including trade practices law and consumer law.
  • Workplace and employment: We can draw up or review employment contracts and workplace agreements as well as assist with disputes and unfair dismissals. We can also assist with occupational health and safety issues.
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency: We can assist with the whole process of recovering money owed to you from an initial Letter of Demand through to Statement of Claim and Court Judgment.
  • Taxation and finance: we can draft and review mortgages, guarantees, charges and other securities documentation as well as advise in regard to GST, Capital Gains and Land Tax.
  • Business succession and asset protection: You need a plan in place to make sure that your business and personal assets are protected. We can work with your business and family to devise a plan that keeps your hard won assets safe through unit, discretionary and family trusts, Wills and/or Powers of Attorney.

Whatever your circumstances, a good business lawyer on your side can help you mitigate the costly risks associated with running any business.

Contact us to find out more or to arrange a consultation with an experienced business lawyer in Melbourne.

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    Telephone and Video Consultations Now Available

    We understand that in these uncertain times it may be difficult for clients to attend our office for a consultation about their visa queries. That’s why we have now introduced the option for video consultations with our clients via Zoom, Skype, or any video platform of your choice.

    It’s a really simple process. Call our office as you normally would do on (03) 9640 0600 to make an appointment. From there, we will contact you via email with links to the online platform we’ll use to have our appointment.

    We are here to help our clients in any way we can.

    Contact Us

    • Level 8, 179 Queen Street Melbourne VIC 3000
    • (03) 9640 0600
    • (03) 9640 0611
    • jkotsifas@jklegal.com.au

     
    Book an Appointment

    You can now book your own appointments online and we also offer the option of a telephone or video interview if you do not wish to come to our office.

    For the immediate short term, given the COVID – 19 outbreak and the need to minimize close contact, we ask clients to book a telephone or video appointments.

    Temporary Visa Holders and Bridging Visa B Holders Stranded Overseas

    There are many temporary visa holders and Bridging Visa B holders that travelled overseas prior to the travel and re-entry restrictions came into force and these people are now stuck overseas and cannot return to Australia. Many have jobs and families to return to as well as ongoing studies.

    The Australian Government has announced that from 21:00hrs on 20 March 2020 only Australian citizens, residents and immediate family members can travel to Australia. “Residents” has been interpreted to mean “permanent residents”.

    The advice from the department so far, is that holders of BVB’s or any other visas which have or will expire will need to apply for another visa to re enter Australia. There is no consideration being given to extending these visas to enable people to return to Australia. Consequently, anyone caught up in this situation will need to lodge a Visitor visa but it remains to be seen how the department will handle such applications once the travel restrictions to Australia have been eased.

    We are here to help anyone caught up in this unfortunate situation.

    Update for Visa Holders

    The following programs have been made available for workers in Victoria who are unable to access other forms of Victorian Government and Commonwealth Government income support:

    Support for job seekers The Victorian Government has established the Working for Victoria initiative to help jobseekers find new opportunities. Temporary migrants who have Australian working rights are eligible and encouraged to register. For further information or to register, please visit https://www.vic.gov.au/workingforvictoria. The Migrant Workers Centre can also assist to address problems encountered at workplaces and provide advice on migrant workers’ rights and available supports. The Migrant Workers Centre is staffed from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday and can be contacted by 03 9659 3516.

    Extreme Hardship Support Program

    The Extreme Hardship Support program is providing emergency financial assistance, information and referrals to people who cannot access Commonwealth income support or the International Student Emergency Relief Fund. It assists the most vulnerable temporary and provisional visa holders, including undocumented migrants, who have no or very limited savings, income and community support. People experiencing financial hardship can apply via the Red Cross website. More information is available at: https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/financial-support-coronavirus-covid-19#extreme-hardship-support-program.

    Support for international students

    The Victorian Government has announced a $45 million International Student Emergency Relief Fund for international students facing financial hardship because of coronavirus. For more information, please visit Study Melbourne’s website: https://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/help-and-support/support-for-students-coronavirus/international-student-emergency-relief-fund

    Coronavirus (COVID-19) rent relief grant

    We have also worked to ensure that renters in Victoria, including students and temporary visa holders, are able to maintain safe, secure and stable accommodation. This includes rules that protect renters from eviction as a result of financial hardship and a one-off rental relief payment for eligible households. There are no citizenship or permanent residency requirements for applicants. For more information about the relief fund and other dedicated support, please visit: https://www.housing.vic.gov.au/help-renting/rentrelief.

    Emergency Relief Packages, Test Isolation Payments, Pandemic Leave Disaster payment

    Community members in self isolation or quarantine without family or networks can access free Emergency Relief Packages. Further support is also available to people who are unable to work or care for themselves while they wait for a test result, or isolate or quarantine through Test Isolation Payments and the Pandemic Leave Disaster payment. Enquiries about eligibility for a package or access to the payments can be directed to the Victorian Government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) hotline on 1800 675 398.

    Support for COVID medical advice or treatment

    For all people in Victoria who need to seek medical advice or treatment for symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) and do not have adequate insurance coverage, Victorian hospitals will waive the costs of treatment. These arrangements have been put in place to ensure that everyone can access Victoria’s healthcare system, including visitors, international students or temporary visa holders who fall ill in Australia and are not eligible for Medicare. This is in addition to the $59.4 million Mental Health and Wellbeing Response package, which will ensure that people, including temporary and provisional visa holders, can access critical mental health services. For details of this new arrangement, please visit www.dhhs.vic.gov.au.

    There are a number of other government and non-government supports available including food relief, housing, healthcare and cash support. The Australian Red Cross website has information on the wide range of supports available to temporary residents. More information is available at: https://www.redcross.org.au/get-help/help-for-migrants-in-transition.

    The Live in Melbourne website also provides a helpful summary of the types of support available from the Victorian Government: https://liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au/news-events/news/2020/government-assistance-for-temporary-and-provisional-visa-holders-coronavirus-covid-19.

    Note: Clients should be aware that there are other law firms with similar names to ours and lawyers with very similar names to "John Kotsifas". These firms and lawyers are in no way professionally related with John Andrew Kotsifas our principal lawyer and in no way associated with our firm JK Legal Barristers & Solicitors. Other lawyers with similar names which are NOT associated with our firm include John James Kotsifas, John Kotsifas & Associates, JK Law, J&K Legal, JamesKLegal, JK Lawyers & Co.

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