Lawyers
Corporate Advisory
Sydney commercial law firm
Commercial law for the decisions that matter.
Daniel Jude Lawyers acts for business owners, companies and private clients across commercial law, tax, corporate structuring, succession and dispute resolution. We work closely with our clients and are in tune with the business behind the legal question, and focused on getting your foundations right.
Where we Sit
Law, practised commercially.
Legal advice is only useful if it can be acted on. The firm’s practice is built for clients who want their lawyer to understand their business first. We are here for the owners, directors and families for whom a legal question is never only a legal question. Our advice is direct, our engagements are clearly scoped, and our recommendations come with a considered approach.
We are deliberately a focused firm. We stay close to the areas we know deeply, corporate and commercial law, tax, disputes, compliance and succession panning. We tell clients plainly when a matter needs a specialist we are not.
The firm
Advice you can act on.
We stay close to the areas we know deeply, and we tell clients plainly when a matter needs a specialist we are not.
About the firm
How engagements work
Clear scope. Clear fees. Clear advice.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about what you actually need, a written scope of what we will do, and fee arrangements agreed before work begins. No matter is too small to be scoped properly, and no advice leaves the firm without a clear considered approach.
How we work
When the matter is a transaction
Legal advice and deal advice are different disciplines. The Daniel Jude group offers both separately, and properly.
Some matters are legal questions: a contract, a structure, a dispute, an estate. Others are transactions: the sale of a business, an acquisition, a merger, a succession event. For those, clients may engage Daniel Jude Corporate Advisory — a separate advisory firm focused on guiding owners through the commercial side of a transaction from first conversation to completion.
The two businesses are independent of each other, and you are never required to use both. But when a matter calls for legal rigour and transaction judgement working in step, the option is there.
Insights
The questions clients ask most
All insights
14.08.26
Why every multi-owner company needs a shareholder agreement
Where the assumptions between owners become enforceable — decisions, money, exits and deadlocks.
Business
30.07.26
A dispute is brewing. What you do next matters more than you think.
The window before a dispute crystallises is short. Used well, it is worth more than most of what follows.
Disputes
16.07.26
Estate planning when the business is the estate
For most business owners, the largest asset in the estate isn't in the estate at all.
Estates
02.07.26
Directors' duties in plain terms
What the duties actually require, in usable terms — and the habits that protect you.
Business
Enquiries
Talk to us before the question becomes a problem.
The best legal outcomes are usually the ones considered and approached early. We’re here to help.