ADVICE YOU CAN ACT ON

ADVICE YOU CAN ACT ON

We transform complex into simple and develop unique solutions that achieve real results, responding with accessibility and reliability to ensure your investment in us delivers the outcomes you need.

AXE LEGAL IS A BOUTIQUE CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW FIRM.

AXE LEGAL IS A BOUTIQUE CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW FIRM.

We transform complex into simple and develop unique solutions that achieve real results, responding with accessibility and reliability to ensure your investment in us delivers the outcomes you need.

Building & Construction

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS THAT KEEP PROJECTS MOVING.

Employment Law

SUPPORTING BOTH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES WITH PRACTICAL ADVICE.

Intellectual Property

SAFEGUARDING INNOVATION TO STRENGTHEN YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE.

Taxation

MAKING SENSE OF COMPLEXITY WITH TAILORED TAX SOLUTIONS.

Borrowing & Lending

SECURING AND MANAGING FINANCE WITH CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY.

Business Structures

DESIGNING FRAMEWORKS THAT PROTECT WHAT MATTERS MOST.

Insolvency & Restructuring

CLEAR PATHWAYS THROUGH FINANCIAL PRESSURE AND UNCERTAINTY.

Property, Planning & Development

FROM ACQUISITION TO COMPLETION, WE GUIDE EVERY STEP.

Borrowing & Lending

SECURING AND MANAGING FINANCE WITH CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY.

Building & Construction

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS THAT KEEP PROJECTS MOVING.

Business Structures

DESIGNING FRAMEWORKS THAT PROTECT WHAT MATTERS MOST.

Employment Law

SUPPORTING BOTH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES WITH PRACTICAL ADVICE.

Insolvency & Restructuring

CLEAR PATHWAYS THROUGH FINANCIAL PRESSURE AND UNCERTAINTY.

Intellectual Property

SAFEGUARDING INNOVATION TO STRENGTHEN YOUR COMPETITIVE EDGE.

Property, Planning & Development

FROM ACQUISITION TO COMPLETION, WE GUIDE EVERY STEP.

Taxation

MAKING SENSE OF COMPLEXITY WITH TAILORED TAX SOLUTIONS.

Featured insights

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We have an inherent understanding that your need for advice serves a greater purpose.

To meet this, we go beyond the technicalities of law and provide insights that are important to you.

While you may be familiar with the process of changing the trustee of a trust, you may not be so familiar with the taxation consequences that could arise from changing trustees.

So are there tax consequences that arise on a change of trustee? If so, what are they?

Ordinarily, your intellectual property rights would be owned and registered by a sole trader, company or trust, but is there a better way to hold and commercialise your intellectual property?

The short answer, yes!