Speakman Law: Expert Corporate & Commercial Legal Services

Speakman Law is a private law firm specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, taxation and company law advice. The firm provides expert legal services with a focus on being time critical and friendly, delivering top quality advice commensurate to that of a large firm. The practice is led by senior lawyers with extensive experience from major firms, ensuring clients receive expert guidance across all areas of corporate and commercial law.

The firm's expertise spans a comprehensive range of corporate legal services including business contracts, terms of trade, supply agreements, service consultancy contracts, manufacturing agreements, and compliance requirements under various Acts including the Companies Act and Anti Money Laundering legislation. Speakman Law also provides extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, handling share and asset sales, due diligence, structuring transactions, takeovers, and shareholding arrangements. Their corporate and securities law services encompass company law advice, directors' duties and liabilities, shareholder remedies and disputes, and compliance with the Financial Markets Conduct Act.

The firm offers specialised taxation services including transactional tax advice for corporate acquisitions and disposals, property transactions, tax disputes, and tax structuring advice. Their trusts practice covers trust deeds, trust variations, resettlements, beneficiary rights, trustee duties and responsibilities, and foreign trust registration. Clients comprise multinational companies and locally owned small to medium enterprises across various industries including flexible packaging, building componentry, financial investment, private tertiary education, manufacturing, professional services, IT, waste management, and freight forwarding.