WHAT DO WE DO?
Our core services
At Tom Evatt & Co we work with individuals, business owners, farmers, and property developers and investors advising on a broad range of legal issues and projects in the areas of commerce, agriculture and property law. We also act for clients on specific projects ranging from property development to irrigation to compensation claims.
Contact us with your enquiry and we will always either give our advice or give you the details of who to contact if we can’t assist you.
COMMERCIAL / business
> Company Incorporation
> Constitutions and shareholder’s agreements
> Disputes
> Business sales and acquisitions
> Business start ups
> Financing
> Business and shares sales and acquisitions
> Commercial agreements
> Terms of trade
> Franchising
AGRICULTURAL
> Farm sales, purchases and leases
> Stock sales and leasing arrangements
> Financing
> Irrigation
> Water rights
> Easements
> Fencing and boundary disputes
> Farm ownership structures
> Resource Management
PROPERTY
> Commercial: sales and purchases, leases, contracts and licences, subdivisions and development issues
> Residential: conveyancing, insurance issues, compensation claims, subdivisions, boundary adjustments
> Rural: sales and purchases, lifestyle blocks, easements, encumbrances
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
> Consenting
> Consultation
> Hearings
> Submissions
> Enforcement related issues
TRUSTS
> Trust formation and administration
PROJECTS
> Projects incorporating any number of legal and commercial issues where timely integrated advice is required across a broad range of issues
employment / health & Safety
> HR and employment advice and support
> Employment contracts, HR policies and advice on implementation and process
> Disciplinary issues, restructuring and redundancy
> Disputes, personal grievances and mediations
> Health and safety issues, policies, procedures and WorkSafe investigations
relationship property
> Contracting out agreements
> Advice on complex relationship property disputes including company and trust structures
> Separation agreements
construction
> Tender documentation and processes
> Contracts – NZS suite, residential forms of contract
> Risk allocation, sharing and associated liability
> Insurance
>Subcontractor contracts and terms of trade
>Securities, including retentions
>Delay and variation claims
>Payment claims
>EQC On-sold Over-cap assistance and advice