Skip to main content

Insights · Articles

Field notes for WA business owners.

Plain-English thinking on contracts, structuring and growing a business — from the desk of Sakhawat Kabir.

Contracts

The most common contract mistakes Perth small businesses make

The clauses that quietly shift risk onto you, and how to spot them before you sign.

Sakhawat Kabir · 14 Oct 2025

Read more
Shareholders

Five shareholder agreement traps that derail growing companies

Deadlocks, valuation fights and 'bad leaver' ambiguity — and how to draft around them.

Sakhawat Kabir · 19 Nov 2025

Read more
Employment

Hiring fast? The employment terms that protect you later

Restraints, IP and probation clauses that matter when a key hire doesn't work out.

Sakhawat Kabir · 9 Jan 2026

Read more
Structuring

When to restructure: signs your business has outgrown its setup

Asset protection and tax-efficient structures for the scaling phase.

Sakhawat Kabir · 20 Feb 2026

Read more
Growth

What a fractional General Counsel actually does

Why fixed-fee, embedded legal beats calling a firm only when something breaks.

Sakhawat Kabir · 3 Apr 2026

Read more
Risk

Reading a liability cap: the one number that can sink a deal

Uncapped liability, consequential loss and indemnities, in plain English.

Sakhawat Kabir · 22 May 2026

Read more

Stay in the loop

Practical legal thinking, a few times a year.

Demo form — connect to your email tool before launch.

Want this applied to your business?