Expertise
Cairns Slane boasts strong, successful, focused and performance-driven teams of specialists in business law, property law, and trusts and estates. We are keenly aware of the trust placed in us by clients, and we consider it vital that we stay ahead of the game, with continuing legal education and keeping up-to-date with the latest legislative developments.
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- Leases
- Franchising
- Commercial agreements (distribution, supply agreements, terms of trade)
- Fair Trading
- Compliance
- Intellectual Property
- Shareholder and joint venture agreements and disputes
- Business and personal finance
- Banking and finance
- Business and asset structures
- Sale of Goods Act
- Consumer Guarantees Act
- Employment Law
- Insolvency
- Mortgagee sales
- Corporate governance (director and shareholder issues)
- Succession planning
- Sale and purchase of businesses
- Personal Properties Securities Act (debentures, mortgages)
- Construction Contracts
- Employment
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- Trusts
- Asset planning and management
- Relationship property
- Wills
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- Sale and purchase of residential, commercial and rural property
- Arrangement and documentation of mortgages, and business and property financing
- Residential subdivisions
- Residential tenancies
- Cross-leasing
- Unit titles
- Residential and commercial leasing
- Relationship property management
- Resource management
- Litigation and dispute management eg Leaky Buildings
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Our goal is to work with clients to develop and implement strategies that if possible avoid litigation.
We are experienced in mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. However if Court work is required we use prefered expert suppliers.
Areas we have expertise in or have access to, include; |
- Building and Construction Disputes
- Contractual disputes
- Insurance law
- Resource Management law
- Employment law
- Defamation
- Media law
- Local authority issues
- International trade
- Professional negligence
- Statutory liabilities
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