Rankin Business Lawyers is delighted to announce its recertification as a B Corp company, scoring its best result yet on B Corp’s measures of social and environmental impact. B Corp certification assesses a company's social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency, and to become certified, organisations must achieve a minimum of 80 points on the [...]
Recently, we celebrated National Family Business Day; with so many of our clients, partners and friends at Rankin Business Lawyers running family businesses, we wanted to give these guys a special shout out. You can feel it when it’s a family business: it’s in the way they greet you by name, the pride they take [...]
BackgroundPresent entitlements are rights that a beneficiary of a trust has to share in the trust’s income. The two defining features of a present entitlement over trust income are that the beneficiary:• has an indefeasible and vested interest in the relevant trust income; and• has an equitable right to demand payment of the relevant trust [...]
If you are sued in another State or Territory in Australia it is possible to apply to have the proceeding heard in a more convenient jurisdiction to you. In a recent hearing before the District Court of NSW, Rankin Business Lawyers was successful in having proceedings filed against its Victorian client stayed (and in effect [...]
