HOSPITALITY & LIQUOR LICENSING

Ryan & Co Solicitors provides practical and commercial legal advice to the hospitality industry.  Our experienced team of legal practitioners provide a full service offering on liquor licensing matters and related business issues, including property and transactional advice.

Our team offer clients practical legal strategies to deliver solutions to meet our clients’ individual requirements.  We understand your business needs and identify risks and opportunities to provide legal advice and solutions to achieve desired outcomes.

Our services include:

• New Licence Applications
• Licence Transfer Applications
• Sale and Purchase of Licensed Premises
• Leasing of Licensed Premises
• Applications to Vary Liquor Licence Conditions
• Liaison with Statutory Bodies
• Liquor Legislation Compliance Advice
• Gaming Machines Advice
• Disciplinary matters
• Wine Law and Agri-Business

PROPERTY LAW

Ryan & Co Solicitors provides practical and commercial property legal advice.  Our experienced team of legal practitioners provide a full service offering on all commercial property and transactional matters.

Our services include:

• Leasing – New Leases, Variations, Assignments, Extensions
• Reviewing Leases
• Market Rent Review Advice
• Property Advice
• Sale and Purchase of Commercial Property
• Co-Ownership Agreements
• Due Diligence
• Caveats

TAX

At Ryan & Co Solicitors we provide comprehensive professional advice in relation to areas of taxation.

Our services include:

• Tax advice including Commonwealth, State and international tax
• Tax structuring
• Tax disputes and litigation
• Advising in relation to debt collection and insolvency action by the ATO and State Taxation Offices
• Assisting with tax audits and investigations
• Trusts and Estate Planning
• Superannuation

i. Estate Planning

At Ryan & Co, we make the task of estate planning as easy as possible for our predominantly high net worth clientele.

Our team of lawyers liaise with clients’ existing advisors, such as accountants and financial advisors, in order to achieve an individually-tailored succession plan that suits each client’s distinct circumstances.

We provide advice in all aspects of Elder law.

Our services include:

• Preparing Wills with or without testamentary trusts
• Advising on business and personal succession planning
• Preparing Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPAs), Enduring Powers of Guardianship (EPGs), and Advance Health Directives (AHDs)
• Reviewing Family Trusts
• Reviewing Superannuation Trusts and preparing non-lapsing, binding and non-binding nominations

ii. Estate Administration and Litigation

Based on our vast experience of estate administration and estate litigation, Ryan & Co Solicitors gives our clients the advice they need to wind up estates whether contentious or otherwise. We also assist executors and administrators to administer deceased estates and provide them with advice about Family Provision claims.  We also advise beneficiaries of estates and trusts and act for applicants and defendants in contentious proceedings involving estates.

Our service include:

• Preparing applications for Grants of Probate of Wills, Letters of Administration (with the Will annexed) of Wills and Letters of Administration of intestate estates
• Advising executors and trustees as to their obligations when administering a Will
• Assisting clients when dealing with superannuation funds
• Advising clients about trust deeds
• Assisting in winding up estates
• Acting for parties in Family Provision claims (both Plaintiff and Defendant)
• Acting for parties where there are applications under the Trustees Act or under the Administration Act
• Acting for parties in State Administrative Tribunal applications for administration and guardianship orders
• Acting for parties in contentious Probate proceedings
• Acting for parties in general estate litigation including mediation and trial

SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW

Ryan & Co Solicitors provides practical and commercial legal advice to sportspersons and entertainers alike.  We provide advice to athletes and actors at all levels as well as advice to the bodies that govern them. 

Our team offer clients practical legal strategies to deliver solutions to meet their individual requirements.  We understand the needs of persons in sports and entertainment industries and identify risks and opportunities to provide legal advice and solutions to achieve desired outcomes.

Our services include:

• Contract advice and negotiations
• Sponsorship, merchandising and licensing
• Intellectual property
• Estate planning and asset protection
• Property and development
• Corporate governance and constitutions
• Disciplinary matters
• Employment and workplace relations

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Ryan & Co Solicitors engages in all forms of dispute resolution from conciliations and mediations to arbitrations and judicial-based determinations.

Litigation can be a very costly process and getting the law and strategy right is only the start. We guide clients on practicable outcomes with a strong focus on commercial outcomes.

Our Dispute Resolution team enhances its skill base with the benefit of our dedicated commercial lawyers.

Our services include:

• Wills & Estates, guardianship & administration, and family provision claims and interpretation of Wills – see Elder Law tab
• Liquor licensing – see Liquor Licensing tab
• Property disputes – sales, leasing (commercial, retail and residential) and strata – see Property tab
• Employment law, restraints of trade and employee claims including discrimination, unfair dismissal, general protections and contract claims
• Safety and other prosecutions – ATO, WorkSafe, EnergySafety and
• Environmental Protection Authority
• Business, shareholder/partnership and contract disputes, and consumer law – see Corporate & Commercial tab
• Construction projects and adjudications
• Professional negligence

CENVEYANCING

Coming soon.