Business Law Advisory is a law firm specialising in commercial law
Call us on 0418 317 606
Legal Services
Choosing a legal structure – sole trader, partnership, company
Company constitutions
Shareholder agreements
Choosing the location – home or remote facility
Protecting data and ideas
Leasing a property
Planning for growth here and overseas
Selling/buying a business
Trading terms
Purchase contracts
Supply contracts
Leases of equipment
Leases of property
Joint ventures
Partnerships
Identifying the opportunity
Meeting compliance requirements
Choosing a CSF intermediary
Fine tuning the share capital
Getting the Constitution right
Choosing the Board
Other types of funding and capital raising
Fine tuning a company Constitution
Board of Directors
Directors meetings
Shareholder meetings
Corporate disclosure
Corporate compliance
Accounting
Business sales & purchases
Clubs and Associations
Employment law
Equity raising
Family law
Mediation
Wills and estates
Wills – challenges
About
Business Law Advisory is a law firm specializing in commercial law. Peter Hercules has 40 years experience in business law. He is passionate about success in business, using the law to build success in business is his art.
Peter graduated with a law degree from University of Melbourne in 1980. He worked for several medium and large regional and CBD firms before opening his own law practice in 1991.
Early in his career Peter developed an interest in business law, working on copyright and creative talent, business innovations and startups. This led to an interest in business structures, equity raising, crowd sourced funding and corporate governance.
Peter likes to visit the office, factory or workspace where clients work, so he can see and understand their business, and offer practical legal insights.
Peter explains, negotiates and writes business contracts, with an emphasis on making them easy to understand. Using transparent business documents assists clients and their customers in developing relationships of trust and mutual respect.
Through curiosity and interaction with a diverse range of enterprises, he has developed a deep knowledge of how business works, what makes it tick, what entrepreneurs can do to protect their innovations and how to grow a foundation business safely with minimised risk.
Peter has served on the Boards of a number of Clubs and not for profit enterprises, and advised companies on Board room strategy and corporate governance.
Peter has served on the Boards of a number of Clubs and not for profit enterprises, and advised companies on Board room strategy and corporate governance.
More recently, he has developed an interest in crowd sourced funding, advising clients on how to best structure their corporate vehicle for equity raising and writing tailor made constitutions for management of their company.
Business Law Advisory strives to provide high quality, practical legal solutions for your business projects
Core Values
Business Law Advisory prides itself on the pursuit of success for clients dreams and ambitions. Creating success through insight into your concerns and challenges. Communicating effectively with you. Fostering integrity and reputation through honesty and transparency. In summary, we work by 4 key values: