James Au & Associates' lawyers have strong commercial and legal practice background.
The lawyers in our team are fluent in English, Bahasa, Mandarin and Cantonese, are all qualified and trained, diverse in culture and background. These characteristics enable us to understand our clients' needs and to provide effective and personalised legal services to our clients.
Many people have unpleasant experience in dealing with legal matters because of the stress, costs and time involved. We understand this and we endeavour to relieve our clients' stress by using plain language and their native language to put everything in a proper perspective, and then we put forward our legal opinions and possible solutions for our clients to make informed decisions.
Our law firm situates at the heart of Central Business District of Melbourne. We offer you our knowledge and experience as legal practitioners. We have the credibility in the community that we can provide you with cost-effective services.
Immigration laws are complex and ever-changing. We have a dedicated team of lawyers and migration agent to keep abreast of these changes and provide the most updated advice and services to our clients.
Our lawyers have strong business background and years of experience in commercial and industrial fields across Asia and Australia. We will be able to understand your needs and help you to adapt to the community of Melbourne
Our services cover the following areas:
We assist clients in acquisition, merger, divestment (sale of business) and restructuring. For each of these service we could assist our client in some specific works, such as due diligence, negotiation and application for approval from regulatory regimes (e.g. Foreign Investment Review Board) and legal compliances.
We provide services for joint ventures of intra Australia or international, of various stages, such as incorporating start-up, restructuring or governance.
In the areas of Corporation Laws, we provide governance services in respect of the duties of board of directors and directors, legal compliances and protection of interests of shareholders (such as minor shareholders) and etc.
We assist clients in drafting and reviewing commercial contracts, particularly those related to complex financing or loan documents
We advise clients on a range of building and construction related matters such as:
We have a track record of assisting clients in the sale or purchase of wineries and vineyards, and farm lands.
We can provide you with professional advice and representation in all aspects of:-