NEVETT FORD MELBOURNE PTY LTD

The regulatory framework around property is technically complex, having evolved over many years.  Added to this complexity, investing in or developing property is also a significant transaction.

We believe there is great value and benefit in ensuring your agreements are properly structured and that you are assisted through the minefield with useful advice and guidance by an experienced and skilled team.

Our property and conveyancing team is well-equipped and experienced in a broad variety of property-related matters.

We act for property developers, landlords and tenants.  We also have a transactional property team to look after conveyancing services.

We have a unique combination of skills, with practitioners who have vast experience in property-related transactions and developments, including development management experience.

Our practice areas include:

• site due diligence investigations and pre-transaction advice,
• joint venture and development agreements,
• residential and commercial purchases and sales, including nominees and sub-sales,
• off-the-plan sale contracts,
• stamp duty, land tax, GST and CGT advice,
• retail and commercial leasing (including shopping centre tenancies),
• town planning related matters,
• financing and securities matters including mortgages, charges and PPSR,
• Foreign purchaser and FIRB advice,
• adjoining owner risks and disputes,
• adverse possession applications,
• subdivisions,
• retail and commercial leasing,
• building and construction matters (including Australian Standards contracts, Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (Vic) and Building Act 2003 (Vic)), and
• property joint ventures.

We have multi-jurisdictional experience in providing advice in conveyancing (VIC, NSW and QLD).

We have acted for developers of low to medium rise developments and greenfield subdivisions.

We have capabilities to provide written and oral advice in Mandarin, Malay or Cantonese.

Businesses have a lot of moving parts. We understand that, in business, you need practical, quick and cost-effective advice, guidance and solutions tailored to fit your circumstances and objectives.

At Nevett Ford, we believe we can give you the best value by gaining a deep understanding of your business, including your objectives and challenges. Our expert team of corporate lawyers in Melbourne can guide your business to the most efficient and beneficial solution.

We prefer relationships that are not transactional and strive to establish a lasting quality relationship with you so we can be a trusted resource throughout your journey.

Our experience with our clientele demonstrates not only long lasting relationships, but strengthening ones, that are continually growing in breadth and scope.

Our business law team of corporate lawyers in Melbourne are highly skilled, with a blend of experience and expertise across a comprehensive range of corporate/business and commercial matters.

Our areas of practice and expertise include:

Corporate and business

• business structuring and succession – including companies, trusts, partnerships and many shapes of co-investment,
• sales and acquisitions of businesses (shares or assets), including transaction due diligence and risk advice,
• business services agreements including advising on and documenting day to day legal arrangements,
• governance and corporate management advice including guidance for directors and business operators, shareholder and board meeting procedures and voting
• shareholder interests and disputes,
• corporate transactions and restructures including share issues and buybacks, capital raisings or reductions, rights issues and similar transactions,
• shareholders and joint venture arrangements,
• advice to trustees and beneficiaries,
• capital and finance advice including debt and securities,
• tax advice, and
• intellectual property rights and protection.

Commercial property and development

• due diligence investigations, acquisitions and sales of commercial properties and development sites,
• advice on retail and commercial leasing,
• advice under the Building Act 2003 (Vic),
• property joint ventures, and
• sport and licensing agreements.

As experienced corporate lawyers in Melbourne, we understand your need for transparency, and we will always be open with our processes and fees. With our proven track record of delivering results for individuals, small businesses and large companies, we are confident in our abilities to assist our clients in a wide range of legal matters.

We are also able to provide written and oral advice in multiple languages of Mandarin, Malay or Cantonese. To find out more, speak to our qualified team today.

Based in Melbourne CBD, Australia, Nevett Ford’s top immigration lawyers have earned an international reputation for their service in this complex and important area of law.

Nevett Ford’s reputation for innovation is best exemplified by it becoming one of the first legal firms in Australia to become active in advising intending migrants. Our Australian immigration lawyers will consider a range of alternatives to find one that is suitable to the needs of migrating clients. As one of the best full-service firms in Melbourne, our lawyers are able to offer strategic immigration solutions to intending migrants. Decisions about migration are often difficult. Our involvement in this area means that we understand how intending migrants feel, their concerns and fears and their desire to have a smooth transition to Australia.

Nevett Ford’s Migration Services

Our services in this area include all aspects of Australian and American migration including independent applications, family migration (including partner – spouse and de facto – and child/parent), employer nominations, corporate and business sponsored temporary and permanent residence visas, business skills migration, general skilled migration, Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) appeals and Federal Court matters.

The team at our immigration law firm is led by Ryan Curtis-Griffiths and comprises an accredited specialist in immigration law, Mr David Stratton, and other highly experienced senior immigration lawyers and registered migration agent practitioners. Whether you require an immigration appeal lawyer, immigration lawyer for citizenship or an immigration lawyer for spouse visa, the team at Nevett Ford has years of experience behind them so you can trust you are in safe hands. Our local immigration lawyers look forward to assisting you, every step of the way.

Nevett Ford Lawyers’ Litigation-Workplace Relations Group practises in all aspects of civil, commercial and workplace litigation. 

The team includes an LIV accredited specialist in workplace relations and all members are experienced in the practice and procedure of litigation. 

The team regularly posts blogs and other updates on developments and recent cases of workplace litigation.

Our team works closely with Nevett Ford lawyers’ commercial, family, migration and general services to provide comprehensive advice to businesses and individuals.

Our workplace relations lawyers provide advice and assistance to both employers and employees in workplace relations matters and to people who want to initiate or find themselves involved in civil litigation. 

Our team has knowledge and experience across all courts and tribunals. What sets our team of workplace relations lawyers apart is our dedication to our clients, our emphasis on referrals to mediation as soon as practicable and the expertise, which comes from our extensive knowledge and experience of how courts and tribunals work.

Nevett Ford Lawyers prides itself on building quality relationships with its clients to achieve their objectives.

Our family law lawyers in Melbourne CBD have a wealth of experience assisting clients, dealing with a full range of simple to very complex property law matters, from parenting disputes and intervention orders to criminal charges.

Members of the team include Senior Lawyer Richard Hamilton, Lawyer Erin Trantino and paralegal Stacey Raphael.

As the top family law firm in Melbourne, our lawyers regularly, our lawyers regularly deal with helping people going through a separation to obtain an outcome that they are happy with both in relation to property and parenting matters. We deal with complex intermingled trust and company issues, but also help with working out how the family home and your superannuation can be best protected, or fairly apportioned between parties.

We often provide advice to clients at the beginning of relationships to help them achieve better asset protection structures, or to ensure that they have clarity about what would happen in the unlikely event of a separation. Often, we draft financial agreements, or ‘pre nups’ in these situations.

Our team also deals with all types of divorce, spousal maintenance, intervention order and breach of intervention order matters. We have an extensive network of referrers who can also assist you with taxation advice, further financial planning, or more complex criminal matters.

Nevett Ford’s team of family lawyers in Melbourne difference is that we genuinely believe in putting our client’s experience of the legal system and our service as a priority. This means we are open and transparent with you about the process, and the cost, of our service and the family law.

Contact the best family lawyers in Melbourne at Nevett Ford to get started today.

As experienced real estate dispute lawyers, we understand your need for transparency, and we will always be open with our processes and fees. With our proven track record of delivering results for individuals and businesses, you can trust you are in safe hands. Speak to our qualified local real estate dispute lawyers to find out how we can help you today.

Our estate planning lawyers take the time to understand your circumstances and objectives and tailor a solution for you to achieve your outcomes in providing for your family and enabling smooth succession of your estate assets.  It is important to properly consider and design strategies and structures to protect and plan the management of your assets, both during your life and after your death.

We know that, sometimes there can be disagreements in a family or some family members can feel that the distribution of an estate is unbalanced.  We can assist to reduce the chance of those disputes at the outset by designing a thoughtful succession and estate management structure including a Will or testamentary trust, but if those types of disputes do occur, our estate litigation lawyers can guide you through the process and assist to achieve a sensible outcome with a minimum of fuss.  Our focus is on providing practical and helpful guidance and reducing the impact and strain on you and your loved ones.

Our team can assist you with:

advice on business and family succession structures,

preparation of simple and complex Wills and testamentary trust arrangements,

succession and estate planning advice and structures,

management of family disputes and contested Wills,

Powers of Attorney and other structures to assist flexibility with your personal and business affairs,

estate administration, Probate and Letters of Administration, and

• restructuring

We understand your need for transparency, and we will always be open with our processes and fees. We provide results for individuals and businesses, so you can trust you, and your assets are in safe hands.  Speak to our estate planning lawyers to find out how we can help you today.