Franchise Law Update

Arising out of a recent joint investigation by Four Corners and Fairfax Media into alleged underpayment of wages as well as alleged inaccurate payroll records by certain franchisees of the 7-Eleven franchise, an Inquiry was conducted by the Fair Work Ombudsman....

Enforceability of Foreign Parent Guarantees

Guarantees provided by parent companies are a common type of support in a wide range of commercial transactions. Besides the usual commercial considerations that need to be taken into account in deciding whether or not a guarantee is an acceptable mitigation of...

Is your business name registered?

Recently, we represented the buyer in a transaction in which it was purchasing (amongst other things) an operating business, the assets of which included several business names.  Although the buyer did not want to use the existing names of the business, the process of...

Why do Lawyers fail their clients?

One answer was suggested by Charles T. Munger in his address to the Harvard Law School class of 1948, as follows: To a lawyer, everything looks like a problem to be approached in a legal way and with legal tools. Munger calls this, “Man-with-a-hammer-tendency”, from...