Adelaide Boutique Law Firm

ABOUT US

JL Lawyers is a boutique law firm specialising in commercial, property and taxation law.  Dedicated to providing value and certainty, we offer responsive, efficient and tailored legal services that are focused on value-add propositions for our clients and their businesses.

Collectively, sixty-five years of commercial legal practice and experience is on offer from our three owner/directors, John Levy, Talia Begley and Nathaniel Nguyen. A large proportion of these years were spent within the Top 10national law firms.

As a firm, we are flexible and nimble and actively leverage our strong business relationships with strategic partners in the accounting and financial industries (amongst others) to assist us to successfully meet our clientsprofessional needs in a holistic and time effective manner. Not hampered by excessive resources or significant overheads, our firm has personality, agility and confidence in the delivery of a highly valued and trusted legal service.

JL Lawyers is pleased to welcome O’Briens Solicitors as a member of the JL Lawyers Group.

Services

OUR TEAM

John Levy

John Levy

Director

John has nearly 30 years’ experience in acting in commercial, corporate and tax matters involving the provision of legal advice to private and public companies, high net worth individual and other SME clients and for clients in the not-for-profit sector.

John has had extensive experience in acting for a range of clients in the wine and agricultural industries.

 

Talia Begley

Talia Begley

Director

With 20+ years of experience in practice, Talia’s commercial expertise are broad.  She has honed particular skills in the following fields:

  • commercial transactions – structuring and restructuring of businesses in a tax effective manner, mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestments
  • business agreements including shareholder and unit holder agreements, business succession agreements, joint venture agreements, terms of trade, intellectual property licensing agreement, loan and security documentation.
  • corporate advisory – fundraising, corporate governance, financial services regulation
  • taxation advisory – advising on a range of taxation issues and strategies involving income tax, stamp duty, land tax and GST.

Talia works closely with the accounting industry and other trusted advisors to deliver a ‘whole of business’ legal service to clients in a broad range of industries including property, medical, the retirement sector and not for profit clients.

 

Nathaniel Nguyen

Nathaniel Nguyen

Director

Nathaniel has a broad range of legal experience in all areas of commercial and property law, advising mainly SMEs, with a particular focus on those within the community pharmacy and healthcare sectors.

Nathaniel aims to deliver commercial outcomes for his clients in a no fuss easy to understand way.

 

Tyson Bateman

Tyson Bateman

Senior Associate

Tyson joined JL Lawyers as a Law Clerk in 2020 before moving to the position of Lawyer upon his admission to practice in 2021.

Tyson is a lawyer working in our commercial transactions, corporate advisory and taxation advisory teams. Tyson has experience advising on Federal and State taxation law and assisting on commercial transactions in the agribusiness, property, retail pharmacy and retirement sectors. 

 

Oliver Johnson

Oliver Johnson

Senior Associate

Oliver joined JL as a GDLP student in the middle of 2020, before being admitted to practice as a Lawyer a year later.

Oliver is a lawyer working in our corporate and commercial practices, specialising in the areas of private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, corporate advisory, general commercial law, and civil litigation.

Oliver’s experience includes acting for clients in the agriculture, pharmacy, medical and retirement sector.

 

Sia Koulianos

Sia Koulianos

Practice Manager

With more than 30+ years in the legal industry, Sia is in charge of practice management, business development and client relationships (if we are truly honest… she’s in charge full stop!).

O’BRIENS SOLICITORS

Since the 1920s, O’Briens Solicitors has been providing exceptional legal services for individual and business clients in the Riverland and beyond, specialising in the areas of Wills, estate administration and planning, property and conveyancing law, agribusiness law and family law.

CONTACT

JL Lawyers

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JL Lawyers

Level 1, 14 Ebenezer Place
Adelaide SA 5000

+61 8 8227 1583

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