Adviser hub
As a professional adviser, accountant, consultant, financial planner or lawyer, there are often issues you and your client need assistance with to achieve the best outcome for your client’s situation. Set out on this page are some of the key areas advisers often seek our assistance with for their clients.
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Training services
CGW Structures
For more information, visit the CGW Structures website
Application forms
Fact sheets
- Business succession – outline of approach
- Comparison of companies limited by guarantee and incorporated associations in Queensland
- Private ancillary funds – outline of requirements
- Public ancillary funds – outline of requirements
- Private company shareholder agreements – issues for consideration
- Family constitutions – issues for consideration
- Selecting an appropriate business structure – what are the options?
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – appointing an attorney
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – responsibilities and duties of an attorney
- Testamentary trusts – features and operations
- What to consider
- Why it is more than just a Will
- Generational transfer trusts
- Joint ownership of property
- The role of executors and trustees
- Time to change your estate planning arrangements
- Should your Will include a testamentary trust?
- Limited recourse borrowing arrangements – permitted maintenance, repairs and improvements
- Self-managed superannuation funds and borrowing brochure
- Superannuation – death benefits and binding death benefit nominations
- Does your enduring power of attorney protect or expose your superannuation?
- Do your SMSF documents stand up to scrutiny?
- Self-managed superannuation funds – who should be trustee?
- Do I need a fixed or standard unit trust deed?
- Generational transfer trusts
- Negative gearing trusts – uses and strategy
- Trusts – different types of trust deeds
- Discretionary trusts – features and operations
- Unit trusts – features and operations
- Checklist for reviewing discretionary trust deeds – what provisions should you look out for?
- Discretionary trusts – who should be the trustee?
- Discretionary trusts – foreign duty and land tax surcharge
Adviser hub
Publications
Screenshots, DMs and secret recordings: how digital evidence is actually used in family law disputes
Evidence from phones and apps now sits at the centre of many disputes and courts are increasingly deciding how screenshots, messages and covert recordings should be treated.
AML/CTF reforms: their impact on the property sector
Major reforms to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 will take effect from 1 July 2026, expanding its scope to a range of businesses not currently caught by the legislation. This will include key participants within the property sector, who will become subject to the AML/CTF regime and need to demonstrate compliance with the applicable obligations.
When does a property consultant have authority to bind a commercial landlord to a lease?
Cooper Grace Ward’s disputes team recently acted for a major commercial landlord in the successful defence of a Queensland Supreme Court case about a consultant’s authority to bind a landlord to a leasing deal. The case provides some useful insights into the risks associated with commercial lease negotiations through agents.