Antony Harrison

Position

Antony is a partner at Mahoney Lawyers, specialising in commercial law, commercial property, and business law.

Qualifications

Antony holds a bachelor of laws and a bachelor of commerce (accounting). He was admitted as a barrister and lawyer in New Zealand in 1997 and as a lawyer in Queensland and to the Australian High Court in 1998. Antony has been working with John Mahoney since 1998. 

Experience and Services

Antony has extensive experience in commercial practices, business and structuring both corporate and personal, leasing, and property development. He has dealt with a broad range of commercial and property issues affecting corporations as well as small and large businesses and high wealth individuals.

Antony offers corporate service, including:

• Implementing and advising on corporate and business structures including shareholder, partnership, unitholder and joint venture agreements
• Personal structuring including entity establishment, restructuring and estate planning
• Supply agreements
• Franchising agreements
• Employment agreements
• Share sale and purchase agreements

Antony’s property experience includes:

• Leasing - retail and commercial
• Business sales and purchases - both multinational and small retail shops
• Rural property purchases
• Property development including drafting & implementation of development and joint venture agreements

Antony was instrumental in the acquisition, development, sale and leasing of the Logan Mega Centre site on Pacific Highway.

Antony’s focus is on clients achieving results. His approach is to tackle each issue head-on by being proactive in the pursuit of obtaining the clients desired outcome within legal and commercial ambits. This ordinarily leads to the client achieving the desired outcome.

His contribution to his clients businesses is best described by clients, who have advised him that they are impressed by his “efficient and expert completion” of complex commercial matters

Antony also prefers plain English drafting of both advices to clients and legal documents so that everyone understands the transaction, not just lawyers.

Interests

Antony loves all sport and seems to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the rules and statistics from cricket and rugby union. Antony is an extremely keen All Black follower and is always willing to wager a beverage with anyone prepared to take the side the All Blacks are playing. He is hoping that his two sons will grow up to share his passion for his native country’s rugby team, but understands that, as they were born in Australia, this may be difficult to implement.