Michael Tree­by

Exper­tise

• Com­mer­cial
• Cor­po­rate 
• Estate Plan­ning & Wills
• Prop­er­ty

Sec­tors 

• Finan­cial Services
• Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
• Real Estate & Construction
• Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional

Expe­ri­ence

My busi­ness law expe­ri­ence includes advis­ing on buy­ing and sell­ing com­pa­nies and/​or busi­ness assets of all sizes and com­plex­i­ties, draft­ing and nego­ti­at­ing share­hold­er and joint ven­ture arrange­ments, advis­ing on cus­tomer con­tracts includ­ing sup­ply, dis­tri­b­u­tion and exploita­tion agree­ments, and advis­ing on busi­ness suc­ces­sion structuring.

My prop­er­ty law expe­ri­ence ranges from straight for­ward home pur­chase and sale for indi­vid­ual clients to the pur­chase and sale of ful­ly and par­tial­ly ten­ant­ed high-rise office tow­ers, retail shops, agri­cul­tur­al farms and land devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties held as lease­hold, free­hold and stra­ta title.

I also have exten­sive prop­er­ty leas­ing expe­ri­ence in the retail, com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al areas act­ing for both land­lords and ten­ants through­out Aus­tralia. I cur­rent­ly advise a num­ber of well-known nation­al and inter­na­tion­al brands in their Aus­tralian prop­er­ty portfolios.

Busi­ness suc­ces­sion and estate plan­ning run hand in hand with my pri­vate client prac­tice and encom­pass Will prepa­ra­tion, buy/​sell arrange­ments and asset pro­tec­tion strate­gies. My expe­ri­ence includes:

• Due dili­gence, sale and acqui­si­tion of busi­ness­es, shares and units
• Due dili­gence, sale and acqui­si­tion of indi­vid­ual res­i­den­tial and mixed-use, rur­al, com­mer­cial, retail and indus­tri­al prop­er­ty portfolios
• Prop­er­ty leasing
• Draft­ing and nego­ti­at­ing joint ven­tures, strate­gic alliances, part­ner­ship and share­hold­er agreements
• Fam­i­ly busi­ness suc­ces­sion, organ­i­sa­tion and re-structuring
• Cor­po­rate advisory
• Per­son­al and busi­ness struc­tur­ing and asset protection
• Estate plan­ning

Roles, mem­ber­ships and education

• Bach­e­lor of Laws (LLB) from QUT, 1989
• Admit­ted as a Solic­i­tor of the Supreme Court of Queens­land, 1989
• Admit­ted as a Solic­i­tor of the Supreme Court of Eng­land and Wales, 1993
• Admit­ted as a Solic­i­tor of the Supreme Court of NSW, 1994
• Queens­land Jus­tice of the Peace (Qual­i­fied), 2015
• Sec­re­tary, Man­ly War­ringah Ath­let­ics Cen­tre Incor­po­rat­ed, 2016 – present