Best Lawyers in Australia 2017

Motus Legal is proud to announce that its director Craig Yeung has been selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2017 for Corporate Law. 

This recognition is even more noteworthy because Craig is the only one selected for Corporate Law in Adelaide from a non-traditional / NewLaw business model – further demonstrating that Motus Legal is a true corporate boutique and alternative to the traditional “top-tier” in Adelaide for Corporate Law and your complex corporate transactions.

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The team at Motus Legal

One year ago...

...was when it all began.

I am so proud of what Motus Legal has done over the last twelve months.

Some things to be proud of over the last 12 months:

- helped around 120 clients in relation to over 130 legal projects;
- worked on over a dozen sale/purchase/capital raising transactions (including angel, venture capital, private equity and ASX deals);
- had Motus Legal or its deals mentioned in the Financial Review, BRW and the Sydney Morning Herald;
- trained/training six law students and putting them on a path to build their legal careers; and
- built reputation as the agile/boutique transactional law firm for entrepreneurial businesses.

Most importantly of all, Motus Legal has allowed me to achieve my goal of spending more time with my two beautiful young boys (from a few hours here and there, to even one or two days a week in addition to the weekend).

What's next?  Expect more.  

The Motus Legal law students posse will be graduating soon, trained up and ready to rock and roll.

Motus Legal has also made its first senior full-time legal hire to boost capacity to do larger deals and more of them (more details to come).

From all of us at team Motus, we thank our supportive families and partners, and thank YOU our clients for believing in us.  Without you all, Motus wouldn't be able to do any of that.  Thank you!

Keep moving.

Craig on behalf of everyone at Motus Legal

Motus helps IoT client to backdoor list on ASX

Not even one year old (just!) and we are SO proud to be able to use our transactional expertise to help XPED in its bid to backdoor list on the ASX through the RAYA Group (ASX:RYG).  We are even prouder to have the privilege to be working with the great team at XPED on this critical journey to take them to the next level.

This transaction firmly cements Motus Legal's reputation as a preferred alternative to other legal firms for transactions, with our agile and non-traditional way of providing legal transactional support on these company-changing deals.

See the AFR article today: CLICK HERE

Becoming the M&A boutique of choice

The last couple of months have seen workflow continue to grow as more and more businesses (including interstate and even overseas!) embrace the new Motus Legal way of providing legal services.

One area that has seen a particularly large upward "spike" is our transactional services, such as acquisitions and sales of businesses.

A couple of deals that Motus Legal have advised on have even made the papers, see:

Acquisition of Viking Rentals - AFR (click for article)

Sale of Mori Fishing - Sydney Morning Herald (click for article) 

There are more that have been closed in the last six months that have not hit the media pages, and more in the pipeline that may.

So it seems businesses have realised the value and expertise Motus Legal brings to the deal table, particularly around these mid-market transactions that involve a level of complexity but do not warrant the traditional firm fee structures.

Nice to know Motus Legal is becoming quite the mergers and acquisitions boutique of choice for smart business owners.  Thanks again to all our supporters.

Keep moving.

The team at Motus Legal

Motus Legal is in the BRW and AFR

It has been a while since the last post, and the reason is because Motus Legal has had its busiest two months ever (OK we've only been here since last November but it's still something!)

We have continued to assist a large number of start up companies and entrepreneurs (our passion!), but the last two months have seen Motus Legal assist many more SMEs and established businesses with their transactions and commercial documents.  It is great that the non-traditional way of delivering legal services is spreading to the "traditional" companies and businesses as they too realise the compelling value proposition.  In fact, that's where we think we can REALLY make a difference.

In the last week, Motus Legal received a great write up in the BRW courtesy of Michael Reid at Majoran, and then the article was also picked up in the AFR in the same week.  It just shows what we have been doing is greatly valued, and even the "big end of town" is now trying to get into the action.  As they say, startups are now the "new black".  Check out the article - you can ignore the rest just scroll down to the end to the important quotes... :) 

We've also had two new faces join team Motus Legal, Taylor Pope and Charlie Aykroyd.  

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for more regular updates and to continue the conversation.

Keep moving.

The team at Motus Legal

One more makes six

With a nice little pipeline of work on the horizon, we have continued to build out our team to meet market demand.  Looking towards June 30 already, we are certainly gearing up for a big bang finish to our first financial year.

We can now proudly boast that Motus Legal is supported by some of the brightest young legal talent around town, with an enviable mix of practical commercial experiences already at such an early stage in their careers.

Why not put us to work for your business?  We'd love to hear from you.

...and we have grown!

In some respects it took longer than I had wanted, but it also came earlier than I first planned.  Thanks to the many clients that have supported Motus Legal over the last few months, we are now in a position to hire some bright young legal talent to build capacity so we can help MORE clients and spread our message.

Over the coming weeks, they'll be introduced individually, but for now check out their brief profiles at motuslegal.com.au/the-team

We've added a couple more templates for our friends to download for free, so please tell your friends to sign up and spread the word that lawyers are giving away documents (!!).  Now with the extra capacity, I'm hoping our new rock star legal talent will be able to get more templates out to our friends more often, and get more publications out there to help the industry.

If you have not experienced what a non-traditional legal consulting company can do for your business, now is the perfect time to contact us and put our awesome new team to work for your business.

Exciting times ahead!  Follow us on twitter @motuslegal to stay in touch!

Three months in...

It has been a busy first three months.  Aside from working with some awesome clients who embraced the new Motus way of legal services, we have been busy in the background building our non-traditional legal consulting company.

We've tried out heaps of online tools all designed to increase productivity and we've implemented those that we think fits our vision of a legal consulting company of the future.  You can see some of the results through our new online payment gateway and what our clients think of us so far - check it out on our website.

We've put more free template documents on our website (go sign up for yours) and started this blog.  We're working on articles and legal tip sheets to be released soon (hopefully!) to help the community.

Finally, we are in the middle of another exciting development in our company which we will announce shortly - watch this space.