MST Lawyers

Our lawyers have experience in acting for both private and ASX listed public companies both nationally and internationally.

When it comes to making the best decision for your company, it is important that all parties involved are fully aware of their rights and responsibilities. We understand that each company is different and we cater our advice to the specific needs of each of our clients.

Areas of Expertise

• Corporate Advisory
• General Commercial
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Company Secretarial
• Fund Raising and Capital Markets
• Financial Services
• Tax
• Superannuation
• Joint Ventures
• Succession Planning

Our dedicated team of Corporate and Commercial lawyers specialise in these areas and hold relevant industry memberships with Family Business Australia, The Tax Institute and The Law Firm Network, an association of law firms with affiliates in more than 35 countries.

EMPLOYMENT LAW

The lawyers in our Employment Law team provides great service and sensible solutions to employment, industrial, OHS and HR advisory related matters.

The vast experience of our team, complimented by their practical and ‘hands on’ style, makes it the answer to all your workplace problems and issues.

Areas of Expertise

• Enterprise agreement design and implementation
• Strategic management of restructuring and redundancies
• Independent contractor agreements
• Unfair and unlawful dismissal disputes
• General protection disputes
• Litigation with respect to employment and commercial issues generally
• Industrial relations and dispute resolution
• Design and implementation of executive contracts, senior level employment restraints and agreements to protect confidential information and intellectual property
• Design and legislative interpretation and compliance
• Discrimination, harassment and bullying claims
• Employee to executive management level training
• WorkCover advice for employers
• Employer sponsorship migration matters

Our Workplace Solution Products is a suite of fixed price products designed specifically for SME’s, franchise systems and associations. These products include:

• Fixed price enterprise agreements
• Employment manual and policy training packages
• Occupational health and safety audits
• Deeds of confidentiality, intellectual property and post employment restraints
• Independent contractor checklist and agreements
• General workplace audits
• Registered Agreement minimum wage annual updater service
• Hotline support service solutions

 Our team is comprised of five dedicated and highly experienced lawyers, including a Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialist.

FAMILY LAW

Our Family Law Team will listen to you, understand the things that concern you and provide sensible advice and a strategic plan to achieve the best solution for you. They will represent you in a way that implements your strategic plan and achieves your goals in the best possible way.

Areas of Expertise

• Assessing a client’s situation and advising the best legal options
• Suggesting expedient and cost-effective solutions in order to minimise emotional and financial stress
• Negotiating and drafting Binding Financial Agreements applicable to domestic (de-facto) and/or same sex relationships
• Negotiating fair and sensible outcomes for property division and children’s arrangements following the breakdown of marriages and relationships
• Representing clients in mediations and other dispute resolution processes
• Obtaining valuations of matrimonial assets, including complex business interests and corporate structures
• Tracing of assets/income streams and obtaining forensic accounting advice if appropriate
• Representing clients in contested court proceedings relating to property division, spousal maintenance claims, and/or urgent proceedings involving restraints and injunctions, e.g. sole use of former matrimonial home
• Representing clients in contested court proceedings relating to arrangements for children, including:
  • parental responsibility
  • who a child is to live with
  • arrangements for a child to spend time with and communicate with a parent
  • relocation issues (including the unlawful removal of children from the jurisdiction)
  • passport disputes, and other specific issues
• Representing clients in child support and adult child maintenance disputes and negotiating and drafting private Child Support Agreements
• Negotiating and drafting superannuation splitting orders and agreements
• Preparing and appearing in Divorce Applications
• Representing clients in Intervention Order Applications

Our team includes lawyers who are Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialists.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & TRADE MARKS

Our Intellectual Property & Trade Mark team provides commercial intellectual property solutions for your business needs.

We provide a range of services from the creation of rights, the expansion of rights into overseas jurisdictions, creating documentation for the exercise of intellectual property rights and enforcing those rights. Our Intellectual Property & Trade Mark Team understands the importance of adding value to your business through your intellectual property strategy. Working closely with our Corporate, Franchising and Litigation Teams, our Intellectual Property & Trade Mark Team provides the services set out below.

Areas of Expertise

Commercial Projects

• Reviewing and drafting commercial intellectual property documents including licensing, assignments, due diligence reports, co-existence agreements and others.
• Reviewing and advising on the Intellectual Property aspects of Franchising documentation, sale of business/restructuring projects and conducting audits.

Trade Marks

• Filing trade mark applications in Australia and overseas, searching and advising on registration issues in Australia and overseas.
• Advising on rebranding projects including clearance searches and filing applications.
• Advising on and handling trade mark oppositions and removal actions.
• Conducting Watching services.
• Trade mark portfolio management in Australia and overseas.

Domain Names & Business Names

• Advising on conflicts, registrations and transfers.
• Enforcing Rights
• Advising on infringement, sending letters of demand and litigation.
• Lodging Notices of Objection with Customs and taking legal action to prevent the importation and sale of counterfeit products in Australia.

MEDIATION

MST Lawyers is committed to the philosophy that appropriate dispute resolution is the most efficient way to resolve conflict. It is for this reason that we will recommend mediation as the first course of legal action in most of the cases we handle.

Our qualified mediation lawyers have expertise and experience in mediating, acting for disputants and advising as to policies and dispute avoidance in the following areas:

• Franchising
• Business law
• Contractual disputes
• Court ordered mediations
• Employment related conflicts
• Industrial relations and good faith bargaining
• Intellectual Property disputes
• Trademark disputes
• Technology licensing disputes
• Technology commercialization conflicts
• Rent roll disputes
• Partnership disputes
• Shareholder disputes
• Product liability claims

Mediation & Seminar Facilities

MST Lawyers has facilities available to accommodate disputes ranging from 2 person disputes to 120 person workshops. This helps us to ensure that, no matter what the dispute, it can be handled in a timely and professional manner.

Regardless of the reason that you require mediation assistance, the mediation lawyers employed by MST Lawyers will endeavour to help you to the best of their ability.

PROPERTY & LEASING

Our Property & Leasing Team provides advice and solutions on all property, infrastructure and environment and leasing related matters at the local, State and Territory and national levels. Our Landlord lawyers and Tenancy lawyers have had experience in a number of issues. 

Areas of Expertise

• Leasing advice for national tenants, including negotiating leases.
• Drafting leases for landlords (retail, commercial, industrial) in all States and Territories including negotiating leases.
• Review and negotiation of ancillary documents, including letters of offer, storage licences, seating licences, car park licence agreements, subleases and deeds of assignment.
• Advice and representation in leasing disputes, including mediations.
• Legal and commercial advice in relation to rights, liabilities and legal and commercial strategies for the surrender and termination of leases.
• Advice on retail leasing legislation in all States and Territories.
• Developing standard leasing documents for large landlords and large national tenants in all States and Territories.
• Residential, Commercial and Industrial property acquisitions and disposals.
• Development work for landlords/vendors including commercial and residential off the plan developments, drafting agreements for lease, leases, advice on planning and subdivision issues, contracts for sale, owners corporation rules / by laws and reviewing, drafting & advising on Section 173 Planning Agreements.
• Due diligence on property acquisitions, including reviewing leases, advice on environmental matters, including zoning and planning issues and compliance with covenants.
• Property Joint Ventures, including drafting and reviewing joint venture agreements for property developments.
• Adverse Possession, including advising on and drafting of applications and supporting documents for submission to Land Victoria.
• Advice to real estate agents, including the recovery of advertising fees, marketing fees and commissions.
• Retirement Village Sales and Purchases.
• Landlord Law, Tenancy Law and Property Law.
• Conveyancing Law.

WILLS & ESTATES

At MST Lawyers, our Wills & Estates team is here to guide you through disputes surrounding inheritance and superannuations, Wills and deceased estates.

Working across a wide spectrum of legal matters, our professional team of Will lawyers can assist you through the legal obstacles that may arise when you’re planning for your future. 

Solicitors For Wills

As lawyers specialising in Wills, our experienced and trusted team aim to help you achieve your desired results. Our Will lawyers are recognised as Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialists. If you need a lawyer to write a Will, or are seeking assurance that your Will accurately reflects your plans for the future, the Will Lawyers team is here for you. 

With years of collective Wills Law expertise, we can provide guidance in the following areas:

• Estate planning.
• Preparing Wills and Power of Attorney (Financial, Medical and Guardianship).
• All Probate matters including the administration of deceased estates.
• Any dispute relating to inheritance, superannuation or challenges to Wills.

Highly regarded as estate lawyers in Victoria, we help to ensure that you and your family are looked after in your time of need. Our team at MST Lawyers work with you to outline who will be the beneficiary of your property and help you to determine what will happen to your business once you pass. Our knowledgeable team of solicitors for Wills are here to take the stress off you and work towards creating a Will that protects your loved ones and your assets. 

Our trusted team of lawyers and solicitors are here for you in all aspects of personal legal matters.