Expert Shareholder Agreement Lawyer in Sydney

A Shareholders Agreement is a key legal document. It clarifies the roles and responsibilities of shareholders of a company, ensures smooth operation, reduces conflict potential. When properly drafted if can attract new investors and will give them confidence in the security of their investment.

Our Sydney shareholder agreement lawyer’s will help ensure that your business will be on the path to stability and efficiency. We know from experience proper documentation pre-empting and avoiding shareholder disputes is key to maintaining stability in your organisation.

Key Elements of a Shareholder Agreement

Your tailored Shareholder Agreement will cover areas such as:

• The business’s nature and objectives
• How decisions will be made
• When shares can be issued or sold and share buy backs
• Dispute resolution procedures
• How profits will be distributed
• Rules around share valuation
• Non-compete clauses for outgoing shareholders

Each business is unique, and your Shareholders Agreement should be crafted to ensure it reflects the business. Our commercial lawyers will guide you through this legal process, ensuring that your agreement caters to the immediate needs of the business and encapsulates the future needs and considerations for the business to operate at it’s optimum.

Whether you are seeking a simple shareholders agreement or have a more complex structure we can provide you with the right legal guidance. Our commercial lawyers have extensive experience in drafting a range of documents and agreements for corporations and businesses.

We also have extensive experience in litigating and resolving shareholder disputes and understand the legal issues encountered by shareholders, directors and boards from all aspects.

Our lawyers can advise you quickly about the options you have available and ensure that the agreement you and your shareholders are entering is well drafted and provides clarity for all parties. It is important to ensure that you seek quality professional advice from lawyers who understand the commercial aspects of business.

Shareholders Agreements can be a legally complex documents, but they’re essential and need proper consideration to be effective. Tailoring documents to suit your requirements means that the advice you get will suit your circumstances and not be overly cumbersome or difficult to navigate if you are seeking a nimble approach. Alternatively, you may require a more robust shareholders agreement for your purposes. Either way, we can provide you with the options fit for your company.

At PCL Lawyers, we provide advice Australia-wide with offices in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane. We can assist in not only advising on or drafting tailored Shareholders Agreements. We can also assist if you need an existing shareholders agreement altered or if you need advice on your rights under the Corporations Act. We also help clients resolve shareholder disputes and our litigation lawyers can help with a wide range of disputes.

Our Sydney shareholder agreement lawyers bring years of experience and a wealth of knowledge to every case, ensuring the best possible outcome for you and your business.

Whether you are a director looking to invite minority or majority shareholders to have shares in your company there are many considerations to make. It is important to seek the right legal advice and not a budget or template option. It can have costly consequences and lead to disputes if issues are not properly considered especially when a shareholder is looking to exit the company.

To find out more about how we can help with your shareholders agreement contact one of our lawyers today on 1300 795 893.