One adviser, start to finish
The person who scopes your engagement is the person who does the work and signs the advice. Nothing is handed down a bench.
Melbourne · Victoria
Corporate and commercial advisory for Victorian businesses.
We work beside directors and owners on the decisions that are difficult to reverse: structure, contracts, transactions and the numbers behind them.
An Australian-registered private company based in the Melbourne CBD, working with businesses across Victoria.
Registration extract
Public record
- Registered name
- Lempriere Harrington Pty Ltd
- Australian Business Number
- 99 700 636 424
- Australian Company Number
- 700 636 424
- Registered state
- Victoria (VIC)
- Office
- Melbourne, VIC 3000
How we work
Advisory that arrives in writing, not in adjectives.
Most of what we are asked to do sits between the accountant and the lawyer — the commercial judgement that neither is engaged to make. We take that part.
A documented position
Every engagement closes with a written recommendation, the options considered, and what we would do differently if the facts changed.
Alongside your existing advisers
We coordinate with your accountant, tax agent and solicitor rather than replacing them, and we say plainly when a matter belongs to one of them.
Services
Four areas we are asked for most.
Engagements are scoped to a defined question and a defined output — a structure recommendation, a negotiated contract, a board pack, a completed transaction.
Corporate structure and governance
Holding and operating entity arrangements, constitutions and shareholder agreements, director duties and delegations, and a board reporting rhythm that a small company can actually sustain. We map the group you have, then set out the group you should have and the order to get there.
Commercial contracts
Supply, distribution, services and lease agreements reviewed and negotiated before signature — with the commercial risk explained in the same language as the clause.
Transactions and succession
Buy-side and sell-side support: deal structure, due diligence coordination, conditions precedent, and the sequencing of a hand-over between generations or owners.
Reporting and performance
Management accounts that answer a question, rolling cash-flow forecasts, budget-against-actual review, and a monthly pack a board can read in fifteen minutes.
Risk and compliance
An obligations register your team can maintain, entity housekeeping kept current, and policy and delegation frameworks sized to the business rather than to a template.
Engagement
Three steps, and you know the cost before the second one.
We would rather decline an engagement than run one with an open scope. The first conversation exists to find out whether there is a defined question to answer.
The conversation
You describe the decision in front of you. We tell you what we would need to see, and whether this is properly our work or your accountant's or solicitor's.
The scope
A written engagement note: the question, the documents we need, the output you receive, who does the work, and the fee basis. Nothing starts before you accept it.
The position
A written recommendation with the reasoning attached, walked through with you, and the implementation steps in the order they need to happen.
The practice
A small Melbourne practice, by design.
Lempriere Harrington Pty Ltd is a private advisory company registered in Victoria and based in the Melbourne CBD. We keep the practice deliberately small so that the adviser you meet is the adviser who does the work.
The businesses we work with are typically owner-led and privately held — the kind that have outgrown informal arrangements but are not yet carrying a full executive bench.
- Owner-led and family-held companies across Victoria
- Boards that need papers, minutes and a decision trail
- Businesses approaching a sale, a purchase or a succession
- Teams without an in-house finance or company secretarial function
Group structure, ownership and the reporting line between them — drawn before anything is changed.
Registered entity
Lempriere Harrington Pty Ltd
ABN
99 700 636 424
ACN
700 636 424
State of registration
Victoria (VIC)
Tell us the decision you are weighing.
One email with the entity name and the question is enough to start. If it is not our work, we will say so and point you to whose it is.