Business Services for Optometrists

If you are an owner of an optometry practice, or looking to be one, you can rely on us to provide competent and clear advice.

Our dedicated health professions team has experience advising on:

• Acquisition and sale of businesses, including due diligence, document preparation and negotiation. This includes liaising with lenders and satisfaction of lender requirements.

• Negotiating premises leases (including detailed knowledge and experience of issues arising in retail leases) and lease disputes.

• Business structures, including service entities, and advising on the transfer of existing businesses to new structures, with advice on business and asset protection.

• Franchises and similar arrangements, including advice on so-called partnership and shared equity models.

• Protecting your goodwill, including advising on the protection of intellectual property rights and the enforceability of trade restraints.

• Refinancing of debt.

• Optometrists wishing to enter, exit or establish partnerships, including assistance in resolving partnership disputes.

• Business succession planning and advice on funded buy-out arrangements and preparation of related documentation.

• Regulatory issues relevant to optometrists, including health profession registration and trade practices issues.

 

For further information on how Guild Lawyers can help, contact one of our optometry team members:

Sydney	Paul Baker , Brent Wilson
Melbourne	Mark Fitzgerald , Laura Dhana, Evelyn Woo
Canberra	John Kelly