Keypoint Grows its Estate

Keypoint Grows its Estate

Progressive law firm, Keypoint Law, has launched a new practice area in Estate Planning, with the joining this month of Michelle Meyer and Michael Eyers AM.

The firm, which has no billable-hour targets for lawyers and offers fee earners 70% of what they bill, has grown to 8 lawyers since it launched in Australia just 10 weeks ago.

Keypoint Law CEO Warren Kalinko said:

“Estate Planning is becoming increasingly important as Australia’s baby-boomers move towards retirement.  In addition, with many clients having substantial assets in family trusts and in superannuation funds, with significant tax implications, this area has become increasingly specialised.  Michelle and Michael’s appointments provide our private clients with a depth of expertise in this fast-growing and at times complex area of law”.

Michelle Meyer (Hons 1 USYD) is one of Australia’s leading estate planning lawyers with extensive commercial expertise.  Prior to joining Keypoint, Michelle was the founder of NextGenLaw, a boutique estate planning and business succession firm servicing private clients with combined personal assets in excess of $1.7b.   Before that, she was a senior estate planning lawyer at Clarendene Estate Planning Lawyers, now a business unit of PWC; and also worked for several years with Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

Mr Eyers is a former partner at both Blakes (now Ashurst) and Atanaskovic Hartnell, and a former Director at Macquarie Corporate Finance.  He has held senior roles in both the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments, including as Deputy CEO of SOCOG (Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) and Director of Housing for New South Wales, and as an adviser to the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and to Infrastructure Australia.  He is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Keypoint Law’s new practice area will cover all aspects of Estate Planning law including wills incorporating sophisticated testamentary trusts, powers of attorney and enduring guardians, superannuation death benefit nominations, probate and administration, review of family trusts and self-managed superannuation fund trust deeds, business succession, binding financial agreements and estate litigation.

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