Business Sale Risks and Structures Summit
Issues covered include: Warranties, indemnities, indemnity clause, insurance, due diligence, cybersecurity, privacy, consumer data, business structures, tax strategies, GST, franchise
Description
If you’re involved in business sales and purchases this event will provide a useful update on all of the key legal issues you regularly face. From the negotiation process to astute due diligence incorporating new legislation for data. You will also gain insights on tax and valuation issues in business sale transactions that you need to know to avoid a deal gone wrong and a client relationship gone sour.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Legal Knowledge
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 6 March 2019
Chair: Peter Janssen, Principal, Corporate First Lawyers
9.00am to 10.00am: Warranties, Indemnities and Insurance: Covering Your Client in Ironclad Armor
- What to warrant and why
- What risks require insurance cover
- The ‘long tail’ of indemnity clauses
- War stories
Presented by Margo Harris, Barrister, Level Twenty Seven Chambers; Recommended Transport Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2018
10.00am to 11.00am: Due Diligence Update: Privacy and Your Professional Duties
- Emerging issues in cybersecurity and privacy
- Consumer Data Right legislation and how it will impact on business sale/purchase
- Increased client risk appetite and professional duties
Presented by Ken Petty, Managing Partner, MinterEllison Gold Coast
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Business Structures and Tax Strategies: What Lawyers Can’t Afford to Ignore
- What is to be sold?
- Know the structure and where assets and liabilities are
- Is there a better way to sell and can it be done now?
- Duty and GST issues
- Buyer planning strategies
- Consolidated group aspects
Presented by Philip Byrnes, Partner, Thomson Geer; Leading Corporate & Commercial Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2016; Best Lawyers 2019, Commercial Law and Tax Law
12.15pm to 1.15pm: How Franchise Business Sales can go Wrong
- A discussion of cases and real life examples of franchise business sales that went wrong
- Gain strategies and procedures to help your clients to avoid similar mistakes, traps and pitfalls
Presented by Elizabeth Gore-Jones, Principal, The Franchise & Business Lawyers