Online event
How to do business in Australia
Wednesday 15 October at 2:00PM
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Thinking of expanding your business into Australia? We'll provde you with insights into key business, tax, legal, and practical considerations for entering and operating in the Australian market.
What you’ll learn
- Key legal, tax and accounting differences when doing business in Australia and the UK
- what you need to consider when forming and running a company in Australia
- an overview of how employment works in Australia
Description
Are you already operating in Australia or who looking to expand into Australia?
Join us to hear all about doing business in Australia. We'll talk you through the legal, tax and accounting considerations, and how to approach forming and running a company in Australia. We'll weigh up the pros and cons of operating via a branch, vs setting up an Australian company.
We'll cover how to protect your business brand and whether you need to register for Australian trademarks and domain names.
We'll also dive into employment considerations, such as how to move existing employees to Australia or how to employ staff in Australia, along with the differences between employment between the UK and Australia.
Finally, you'll hear about how other UK companies have managed to navigate and enter the Australian market; and how they overcame and challenges they experienced.
Speakers
Ned Shelton
Founder and Director, Sheltons Accountants Australia
Ned career has been primarily focused on advising internationally operating clients, something he has done for more than 25 years, whilst based in Australia and in Europe.
In this respect, Ned and his team in Australia work exclusively with non-Australian based clients – whether they be merely exporting to Australia, setting up operations in the form of a fully-fledged operating company or perhaps with just one part-time employee in Australia.
Ned’s work these days covers a wide range of business, tax, legal, accounting and administrative advice and assistance to this specific target group. Ned has a very strong international tax background and has written a 650-page book on The Application and Interpretation of Tax Treaties at the request of Butterworths Tolleys / Lexis Nexis UK.
Ned qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Australia in 1983 and holds degrees in Commerce and in Law from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was with Mann Judd (now HLB Mann Judd) in Sydney and then was a Tax Manager with Arthur Andersens in Sydney before setting up his own firm.
Courtney Gleeson
Partner / Principal Lawyer (Australian Qualified), Sheltons Group Legal
Originally from Australia, Courtney graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and a Bachelor of Psychological Science before completing a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the College of Law.
Following her admission as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia in January 2011, Courtney worked at a boutique law firm in Queensland, Australia practising in a wide range of areas before focussing predominantly on commercial and corporate matters including contracts, leasing, litigation and disputes just to name a few.
Courtney relocated to the United Kingdom in August 2017 and took on a role as an Associate at a corporate law firm in London where she gained invaluable experience in the corporate sector within this jurisdiction.
Since joining Sheltons, Courtney has been heavily focussed on working with clients operating within Australia with head offices in the United Kingdom and Europe where time differences can prove difficult to navigate. The need for such assistance grew to the extent that Sheltons incorporated its own Australian law practice, Sheltons Group Legal, in 2021. Courtney is Principal Lawyer and Partner in Charge of Sheltons Group Legal and continues to provide in-depth and bespoke legal advice and assistance to clients in varying sectors.