Areas of Practice

At Proper Legal we offer a wide range of services across many areas of law and in each area of service that we offer, we promise that you will receive the very best legal treatment in the industry. 

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Click on the area of interest, or scroll to see the scope of law we cover at Proper Legal.

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Business Purchase / Sale

Business disputes are part of every business. We help you protect your best interests.
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Wills & Estate Planning

We provide employers with practical and strategic advice and guidance.
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Business & Commercial

Draw upon our full complement of services to safeguard and manage your assets.
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Property Conveyancing

We help create business entities, such as corporations, partnerships and joint ventures.
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Business Purchase / Sale

Proper Legal has the necessary skills and experience to advise you on the purchase or sale of a business. We can assist you with business types including companies, partnerships, and trusts.


Each party to a sale or purchase of business transaction should be independently advised by a lawyer and an accountant.

Buying or Selling?

If you’re looking to buy a business or you’re putting your place up for sale let us know and we can handle all the legalities of selling or purchasing a wide variety of businesses and companies.

Proper legal can help:

  • Business structures
  • Contracts
  • Lease terms
  • Put and call options
  • Goodwill and valuation of business assets
  • Tax considerations
  • Liaison with financial institutions
  • Transfers of liquor licences and poker machine entitlements
  • Transfers of equipment licences
  • Franchising agreements
  • Arranging due diligence searches and inspections
  • Organising and attending settlement

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Wills & Estate Planning

Planning for your family’s future after you’re gone is a really important legal task.



If you take the time now to make an effective legally binding Will and Testament you can save your family not only stress but money in what will undoubtedly be a difficult time for them.

Proper legal can help:

  • Advise you in regard to estate and Probate laws
  • Write a will that maximises the inheritance for your family
  • Set up family and testamentary trusts
  • Advise you in regard to choosing executors and guardians
  • Minimise the chance that your will is contested and subject to litigation
  • Advise you in regard to estate tax (including capital gains) and financial concerns
  • Safely store your will and other important legal documents

POA & Guardianship Documents

At the same time as considering your Will we strongly recommend that you also put in place plans for any future incapacity through Power of Attorney (POA) and Guardianship documents. 


This will ensure that if you somehow become unable to make decisions about your finances, your medical treatment or living arrangements then the person or persons who you trust to make these decisions can do so unhindered.

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Business & Commercial

Whether you’re a start-up, planning to buy or sell a business, looking for a business lawyer to assist with commercial litigation or looking for advice on a business dispute. 



Our team at Proper Legal has extensive experience with Australian businesses.

Proper legal can help:

  • Business structures
  • Business contracts
  • Commercial disputes and commercial litigation
  • Corporations law
  • Franchises
  • Copyright, trademarks and patents
  • Property and leasing
  • Commercial law and small business legal advice
  • Workplace and employment
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency
  • Taxation and finance
  • Business succession and asset protection

Business Covered

Whatever your circumstances, a good business lawyer on your side can help you mitigate the costly risks associated with running any business.

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  • BUSINESS STRUCTURES

    If you are establishing a new business enterprise we can help you make sure that you are setting the business up soundly, whether by partnership, joint venture, company, trust or franchise. If you’re looking to restructure your business we can help with partnership dissolutions and corporate restructures.

  • BUSINESS CONTRACTS

    Our commercial lawyers can prepare or review all types of legal contracts including purchase or sale of business, Put and Call Options, franchise agreements, supply agreements, service agreements, distribution agreements, partnership agreements, commercial contracts. We’ll make sure that the contract terms and conditions are suitable for your business now and into the future and ensure that due diligence standards are met. For buyers, we ensure that you get what you pay for – for sellers, we help minimise risks associated with selling a business.

  • COMMERCIAL DISPUTES AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

    We offer dispute resolution services and business litigation covering a wide range of problems including breach of contract, building and property disputes, debt recovery, copyright infringement, partnership disputes and corporations law.

  • CORPORATIONS LAW

    We can assist with shareholders agreements, advice on corporate governance, documenting company administrations.

  • FRANCHISES

    If you’re looking to buy into a franchise we can help you go through the franchise agreement and franchisor disclosure documents to make sure that you are aware of all the issues that could make or break your new business.

  • COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS

    We can help you manage and enforce your intellectual property rights, including litigation where needed. We can also help you with registering designs, patents and trademarks.

  • PROPERTY AND LEASING

    We can assist with retail leasing and commercial leasing for both landlords and tenants. We can also assist with the sale or purchase of commercial property.

  • COMMERCIAL LAW AND SMALL BUSINESS LEGAL ADVICE

    We offer small business legal help in a wide range of matters including trade practices law and consumer law.

  • WORKPLACE AND EMPLOYMENT

    We can draw up or review employment contracts and workplace agreements as well as assist with disputes and unfair dismissals. We can also assist with occupational health and safety issues.

  • BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY

    We can assist with the whole process of recovering money owed to you from an initial Letter of Demand through to Statement of Claim and Court Judgment.

  • TAXATION AND FINANCE

    We can draft and review mortgages, guarantees, charges and other securities documentation as well as advise in regard to GST, Capital Gains and Land Tax.

  • BUSINESS SUCCESSION AND ASSET PROTECTION

    You need a plan in place to make sure that your business and personal assets are protected. We can work with your business and family to devise a plan that keeps your hard-won assets safe through unit, discretionary and family trusts, Wills and/or Powers of Attorney.

Property Conveyancing

Proper Legal is able to help with all stages of QLD and NSW property transactions whether you are buying or selling a home, unit, vacant block, strata title, commercial real estate or rural property.

Proper legal can assist you with:

  • Legal advice in regard to real estate contract law
  • Drafting and reviewing contracts
  • Sustainability declarations, disclosure and warning statements
  • Auction contracts and purchases off-the-plan
  • Cost appraisal including stamp duty, and disbursements such as search and registration fees
  • Tax considerations and asset protection 
  • Property tenancy including joint tenants and tenants in common
  • Vendor’s statement (general & special conditions)
  • The cooling off period and deposits
  • Commercial property including leases
  • Retirement village purchases, leases and service contracts
  • Building contracts, owner builder issues and the Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991
  • Liaison with financial institutions in regard to deposit bonds, loans, mortgages and discharges of mortgages
  • Execution of contracts and settlement
  • Adjustments to the purchase price (rates and allowances)
  • Advice for first home buyers (First Home Owner Grant)
  • Preparing and registering Powers of Attorney
  • Advice on title searches (easements and covenants)

Do you know tax considerations can include:

Capital gains tax, and sales or purchases by companies, self-managed superannuation funds, family and discretionary trusts and deceased estates

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Conveyancing During COVID

By Dean Brown • October 31, 2020
Something very relevant right now is the impact on negotiation of contract terms during COVID. The biggest effect from COVID has been on the time that banks are taking to approve finance and how that is holding up and even losing contracts.

Telecommunications & Commercial Leasing

Telecommunication (Telco) Tower leasing has peculiarities unique to the Telco industry. 


While on the face of it, the lease may appear to be a standard lease document, the specialised needs of Telco companies require terms and clauses rarely seen in other commercial leases.


At Proper Legal we have the necessary experience to unravel the complexities of the lease and assist you in protecting your interest while leasing your property to a Telecommunication provider.

Have you been approached?

If you have been approached by Telstra, Optus, NBN Co, Vodafone, Crown Castle or any other Telecommunication provider to lease part of your land or roof top call us today. 

Proper legal can assist you with:

  • New Leases
  • Sub leases
  • Concurrent Leases
  • Amendments
  • Extensions
  • Exercise of options
  • Equipment upgrades
  • Access rights

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Migration Law

We take our obligations to provide our services while complying with highest professional standards seriously. 


In addition to complying with our obligations under the Legal Profession Act (QLD) we also conduct our services having regard for, and complying with the Migration Agents Registration Authority Code of Conduct (OMARA). 


Please refer to the OMARA website for the Code of Conduct.

Heading overseas?

Our services at Proper Legal include assistance with all of the following visas and their various sub classes.

Proper legal can help with:

  • Business and investor visas
  • General skilled migration
  • Employer sponsored visas (457, Regional & State Sponsored)
  • Family members – parents, spouse/partner, de facto, prospective marriage and children visas
  • Retirement and retirement investor visas
  • Tribunal and Federal Court Reviews and Appeals

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