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How to Set Up and Structure a Business: Your Expert Guide

In the current challenging environment, it has never been more important to know what business structures will best align with your client’s needs. Explore the various structuring alternatives including companies, limited partnerships, trusts and tax implications as well as what does and doesn’t work. You will learn what options are available and develop the skills to think carefully about what is needed to future proof a structure, contemplate possible scenarios and what is needed for best practice.

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Attend and earn 3 hours

Chair: Andrew Kennedy, Principal, Prudentia Law

9.30am to 10.25am: Comparing Structures: Tips and Traps

  • Company vs. corporate trustee
  • Joint ventures and shareholder agreements
  • Limited partnership
    • Structuring agreements what to include
    • Entry/exit
    • Capital considerations

Presented by Greer Fredricson, Senior Associate, Chapman Tripp

10.30am to 11.25am: Tax Issues Specific to Each Structure

Join a respected and experienced taxation advisor who will explore some of the common tax issues that are associated with each structure and gain insight into how to expertly identify the most appropriate structure for you and your clients.
Presented by Maurits van den Berg, Senior Manager - Tax, Bakertilly Staples Roadway 

11.25am to 12.30pm: What to do When Your or Your Client’s Business Face’s a Crisis

  • Shareholder support and security
  • Insurance or can I sue?
  • Compromise with creditors
  • Administration
  • Walking away

Presented by Bret Gustafson, Barrister, FortyEight Shortland Chambers

Learning Objectives: 

  • Compare and gain a deeper understanding of company structures
  • Examine the various tax implications 
  • Develop skills to handle a company crisis

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This seminar is the ideal way to earn your required CPD points along with gaining excellent, detailed and practical insights into the financial area of family law. Gain a greater understanding in how to deal with difficult clients and how to manage conflict and complaints. Learn practical tips from the experts and return to your practice ready to apply them immediately.

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Annual Education Law in Wellington

Employment issues are the perennial thorn in the side of many schools. If left unmanaged, things can go wrong – fast and be severely detrimental to your school’s morale, culture and the quality of education. This programme assembles 8 legal experts who will galvanise you with updates, information and tips that can be practically implemented in your school.

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Public Inquiries: Powers, Practice and Procedure

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Issues covered include: making good decisions, artifical intelligence, privacy

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Issues covered include: heads of agreement, pre-contractual representation, liability, contract trisks, indemnities, contract breach, contract remedies, mitigation, dispute resolution clauses, technology contracts, hackers

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3 Major Developments: Mainzeal Case and Directors, Insolvency Legislation, Cross Border Recovery

Issues covered include: Mainzeal case, directors, insolvency legislation, cross border recovery, chasing debtors, claims against directors, director's liability

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Evidence in Criminal Matters Intensive

Issues covered include: recent cases on evidence, Evidence Act, appellate trends, expert opinion evidence, hot tubbing, cross-examination, drug trials, search powers, warrantless searches, searching electronic devices

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Employment Law: Critical Updates

Issues covered include: bullying and harrassment, bully policies, Health and Safety at Work Act, WorkSafe, ERA, collective bargaining, Fair Pay Agreements, Holidays Act Audits, Labour audit

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Appearing in the Employment Relations Authority

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Issues covered include: mediation skills in commercial and family matters

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Trusts, Wills and Estates Symposium

Issues covered include: trust law reform, removal and retirement of a trustee, non-compliant trusts, independent trustees in family trust disputes, estate planning and succession across jurisdictions and overseas, relationship property, claims Under the Family Protection Act 1955

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Construction Law: Critical Updates, Cases and Disputes

Issues covered include: building and construction, defective buildings, earthquake strenghtening, asbestos, building regulations, building products, building levy, insolvency and bankruptcy, builders and suppliers, construction disputes

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IP Infringement: How to Protect and Enforce IP Rights

Issues covered include: IP infringement, cease and desist letters, IP disputes, IP strategy, commercial IP considerations, IP dispute resolution

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4 Major Property Updates

Issues covered include: Overseas Investment Act, residential land sale, warranties in agreements, purchase of real estate, due diligence, tax in property, commercial property, industrial property, lease inducements, residential real estate investment, subdivision, resource management reforms

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A Statutory Interpretation Masterclass

Issues covered include: purpose, context and structure of legislation, statutory interpretation rules, legislative intent, delegated legislation, technical terms, interpretation of statutes

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Buying and Selling a Business: 4 Areas of Risk

Issues covered include: Business transitions purchases and sales, agreement for sale, intellectual property, tax, employment

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Franchising Law: Practice and Procedure

Increasing regulation of the franchise sector, occasional negative media coverage and the risk of litigation requires franchisors and their lawyers to bullet-proof their knowledge and processes. Settle in, because this timely seminar covers a whole host of critical developments in franchising law with analysis from leading practitioners.

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Criminal Law: Ethics & Managing Client Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability

In this intensive and in-depth program you have an opportunity to develop skills to better handle individuals who have experienced a mental health issue, severe trauma or when you are confronted with a difficult ethical decision about what you ought to do. With the spectrum of clients extending, and an aging population these types of tough situations will arise more frequently which is why it is important consider how you and your practice will respond.

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Business Structuring: Alternatives, Tax Implications and Disputes

You will explore the various structuring alternatives including companies, limited partnerships, trusts and tax implications as well as what does and doesn’t work. You will learn what options are available and develop the skills to think carefully about what is needed to future proof a structure, contemplate possible scenarios and what is needed for best practice.

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Employment Agreements Intensive

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Contract Law: Drafting and Enforcement

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Immigration Law Conference in Wellington

In the constantly evolving world of immigration law, it is paramount that you stay on top of the latest changes that affect your clients. Join leading immigration experts and advisors to unravel the key policy and legislative updates and explore the crossover between immigration and employment. Attend the full day to receive practical insights in navigating the legal issues that arise if your client is faced with deportation.

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Education Law Conference 2020 in Wellington

Issues covered include: Mental Health and Your Staff, Dealing with Competency Issues and Allegations of Bullying Staff, Breaches of the Employment Agreement, The Health and Safety at Work Act 4 years on, Insights from the New Zealand School Trustees Association, Managing Staff Misconduct on Social Media, Protection from Parents, Insights from the Teaching Council

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Education Law Conference in Auckland

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Family Law Inter-disciplinary Issues: Trusts, Tax and Domestic Violence

Issues covered include: Family court, family controlled companies and trusts, tax issues, settlement, discretionary trusts, child maintenance trusts, employment considerations, domestic violence

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Lawyers on Boards: Advance Your Career by Being Board Ready

Issues covered include: board roles, lawyers on boards, Crown Entities Act 2004, board members

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Contract Law Intensive

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Workplace Investigations in the Public Sector

Issues covered include: Dealing with a complaint; Conducting the investigation from the Terms of Reference, interview planning, interview techniques, difficult parties and wintesses, anaysis of evidence and making findings

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Maori: Intersection with Crown and Commercial Law

Issues covered include: Crown and Māori Relations, Doing Business with Māori Organisations, Unlocking the Value of Your Intangible Assets,

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Drone Regulation: Risk & Liability

Issues covered include: drone, UAVs, BVLOS, technology, privacy, AI, contractual arrangements, insurance issues, ministry of transport, flight

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Not-for-Profit Law Critical Updates

Issues covered include: charities law, Charities Act, NFP, not-for-profit, Trusts Act, charity

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10 Hours in One Day: Private and Commercial Clients

Sure it’s a whole day, but once you’re done, you’re well and truly done! Featuring an expert speaking panel and timely topics hand-picked to cover the latest legislative developments, proposed reforms, cases, updates and essential practice skills you need to know right now. All your CPD hours, all in one day.

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10 Hours in One Day for Public Sector Lawyers

Designed specifically for public lawyers, hear from public sector experts about ten of the most topical issues you need to know right now. 10 Hours. One Day. All your CPD hours in one go.

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In-House Counsel Summit

"Issues covered include: privacy Consumer Law Update; employment law update; employment agreements; IP, Leading Transformative Change, Operations Issue covered included:The New Privacy Era, New Zealand Consumer Law Update, Employment Law: Recent Changes and Cases, Negotiating Employment Agreements: Watertight or Full of Holes?,IP Considerations for In-House Counsel,In-House Counsel Leading Transformative Change, Strategies to Improve In-House Legal Operations.

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Aged Care Symposium

Issues covered include: Interface between Retirement Villages and Aged Care: An Update, Capacity Issues Intensive, Supported and Substituted Decision-Making, End of Life Choices Bill , Insights from the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner, Immigration Law Changes and What They Mean in the Aged Care Context, Privacy, Recording and Data Security , Employment and Health & Safety Law and its Relevance to the Aged Care Sector

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IP in Focus

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Professional Ethics in Focus

Issues covered include: legal responsibility, ethical responsibility, profressional responsibility, behaviour

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CANCELLED: Property Law: Advice Management and Disputes

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Commercialising IP Intensive

Issues covered include: Conducting IP Audits, IP Licensing and Commercial Arrangements: Legal Considerations and Business Decisions, Maximising the Value of Your Client’s Business through a Strong Intangible Asset Strategy

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10 Hours in One Day for Litigation and Disputes Lawyers

Issues covered include: Recent Family Law and Property Division Cases, Estates Litigation Updates, Clients Behaving Badly, Contract Disputes: Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, Calculating Lost Profits: Commercial Damages, Insurance Law Reform and Case Law Update, Running a Paperless Litigation File from Start to Finish, Litigation Finance and Class Actions, Employment Investigations, Mediation in Employment Disputes,

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Estate Planning and Succession

Issues covered include: Case Law Update, Capacity and Vulnerability in Succession Law, Drafting Wills and Structures for Blended Families, The Danger Zone for Succession Lawyers, Mediation in Deceased Estates,

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Probate: Complex, Informal and Solemn Form

Issues covered include: Seeking a Grant of Probate in Solemn Form, Proving Informal Wills, Complex Probate Applications,

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Immigration Law: Visas Updates

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The Civil Litigator’s Toolkit

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Your Criminal Client: Your Responsibilities

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CANCELLED: Directors and Officers Forum

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CANCELLED: Health Products and Devices: Therapeutic Goods, Patents and Privacy

Big changes are happening in Health law and regulation. The proposed Therapeutic Products Bill is about to hit Parliament and together with the new privacy laws and recent developments in patent litigation, this area of law is about to erupt.

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Insurance Law: Facing the Changes

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Traffic and Driving Offences

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Trust Law: 4 Key Areas

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CANCELLED: Comprehensive Legal Update for Your Commercial Clients

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10 Hours in One Day – Critical Updates for All Lawyers

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Employment Law: Critical “Post Bubble” Changes

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Family Law Agreement Drafting: Overseas Assets and Separation Agreements

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D&O Hotspots: Information Security and AI Systems

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Environmental Law: Critical Reforms and Cases

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CPD Saver 2020-2021

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Education Law Series

This series will cover some of the most important legal issues affecting schools, 1 hour at a time until the end of 2020. Hear from leading education lawyers and gain practical, up-to-date insights into family law, employment law and staff misconduct, privacy, online and social media issues and bullying. Watch live online to interact with the speakers and other delegates or register for the on-demand to watch the webinar at a time that suits you.

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Employment Law Series

Employment law issues are currently front and centre with employees adapting to the new way of working and businesses doing their best to survive. This 6 part series will examine good faith in restructuring and redundancies, work-from-home arrangements, restraint of trade and protecting confidential information, recent cases and the Holidays Act, employee performance management, medical incapacity, bullying and harassment. Choose the session most relevant to you or attend them all.

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The New Trusts Act and Trust Wind Ups

Attend and you will comprehensively examine the requirements and trustee duties under the new Trusts Act that you need to know. Receive essential tips for getting your trust wind ups back on track as quickly as possible. You will also gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of trust deeds, including drafting, modification, indemnity clauses and powers.

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