MC Strategic
Advisory Group
Melbourne · Victoria
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Clear direction when the pressure is on.

MC Strategic Advisory Group supports company directors, business owners, builders and homeowners through the matters that do not wait — a liquidator's demand, an ATO notice, a building project that has gone wrong, a contract that needs attention before it is signed. We help you understand the situation, organise the facts and documents, and bring in the right accredited legal, accounting and financial professionals to advise you — then coordinate the matter with them through to resolution.

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How we work

One point of contact. The right accredited professionals behind it.

A director facing a liquidator, the ATO and a bank at once usually needs a lawyer, a tax agent and an accountant at the same time — and someone to keep them working from the same facts. That is the role we fill.

We organise and coordinate

We take the first call, gather the notices, financials and correspondence, build a clear chronology, and identify which kinds of professional the matter needs.

Accredited professionals advise

Advice comes from independent professionals we have access to and engage for you — Australian legal practitioners holding a current practising certificate, registered tax agents, chartered accountants, registered liquidators and, where relevant, licensed financial advisers.

You stay informed and in control

Each professional confirms their own scope and fees before they start. We keep the matter moving, the deadlines visible, and you across every decision.

You Director · owner · builder MC Strategic Advisory COORDINATES Legal practitioners Tax registered agents Accounting CA · CPA Insolvency registered liquidators
Areas we support

Four areas, handled in depth.

Most matters arrive with a deadline already attached. Below is the kind of matter we help with in each area, and the kind of accredited professional we engage to advise on it. The statutory references are general information only.

01

Insolvency & restructuring

Liquidator demands and insolvent trading claims, voluntary administration and deeds of company arrangement, small business restructuring and safe harbour, statutory demands and winding-up applications. The question that eventually gets asked is what the director knew and what they did about it — so the first job is assembling that record properly.

How we help

  • Gathering financial records, board minutes and correspondence into a clear chronology
  • Organising the cash-flow and creditor picture so it can be assessed quickly
  • Keeping a running record of steps taken — the kind of evidence safe harbour depends on
  • Coordinating communication with liquidators, administrators and creditors

Who advises

  • Legal practitioners on insolvent trading claims and director defences (ss 588G–588H)
  • Registered liquidators on small business restructuring (Pt 5.3B), voluntary administration and DOCAs (Pt 5.3A)
  • Accountants on solvency, forecasting and safe harbour plans (s 588GA)
  • Legal practitioners on statutory demands and set-aside applications
02

Taxation & ATO matters

Director penalty notices, GST, PAYG withholding and superannuation guarantee debts, penalty and interest remission, payment arrangements and settlements. The lodgement history is usually the first thing a tax professional will ask for — so we start by putting it together.

How we help

  • Collecting notices, lodgement history and account statements from the start
  • Mapping each debt, its date and the entity it sits in
  • Preparing the financial information a payment proposal will need
  • Tracking dates so nothing lapses while the matter is being assessed

Who advises

  • Registered tax agents on liabilities, lodgements, remission requests and dealings with the ATO
  • Legal practitioners on director penalty notices and available defences
  • Accountants on the numbers underpinning payment arrangements
  • Legal practitioners on garnishee notices and recovery action
03

Building & construction

Domestic building disputes over variations, defective or incomplete work, delay and termination, and the conciliation and tribunal steps that follow. These matters turn on documents — the contract, the variation paperwork, photographs and dates — and are much easier to resolve when that material is organised early.

How we help

  • Assembling the contract, variations, invoices, photos and correspondence in date order
  • Building a schedule of disputed items and defects for expert review
  • Arranging independent building inspectors and quantity surveyors
  • Coordinating the DBDRV conciliation process and follow-up

Who advises

  • Legal practitioners on HIA and Master Builders contracts, variations and termination
  • Legal practitioners on VCAT Building and Property List proceedings
  • Registered building practitioners and inspectors on defects and rectification
  • Quantity surveyors on cost, prime cost items and provisional sums
04

Commercial & property

Leases, assignments and business sales, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, debt recovery and security. Getting the right professional to review a document before it is signed is almost always cheaper than the dispute that follows.

How we help

  • Scoping the transaction and what needs to be reviewed
  • Pulling together leases, guarantees, PPSR searches and company records
  • Coordinating between the parties, their advisers and yours
  • Keeping settlement and option dates in view

Who advises

  • Legal practitioners on leases, business sales, joint venture and shareholder agreements
  • Legal practitioners on demands, recovery and enforcement of security
  • Accountants on business valuation, structure and tax consequences
  • Licensed financial advisers where finance or investment is involved
The window

Many of these deadlines are 21 days, and they do not pause.

Statutory demands and director penalty notices run on fixed periods. The options available early are rarely the options still available at the end — which is the single best reason to call as soon as something arrives.

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Why clients engage us

Fast, focused, and priced before it starts.

Speed

Urgent matters are looked at the day they arrive. Demands, notices and hearing dates carry deadlines, and we work to them.

The right people

Access to accredited legal, tax, accounting and insolvency professionals who work in these areas every day.

Industry depth

Experience across construction, hospitality, retail, education, transport and property. No time spent explaining your industry.

Fee certainty

Our fees are fixed or staged and agreed up front. Each professional engaged confirms their own fees with you before starting.

How an urgent matter runs

The first week decides most of it.

The usual sequence from the first call to the day the matter closes.

Day 0

First call

A discussion without obligation. We establish what has arrived, the date on it, and the date by which something needs to happen.

Days 1–3

Facts and documents gathered

Notices, financials, lodgement history, contracts and correspondence are collected and put into a clear chronology the professionals can work from immediately.

Days 3–7

The right professionals engaged

We introduce the accredited legal practitioner, tax agent, accountant or registered liquidator the matter needs. Each confirms their scope and fees with you directly before advising.

In the window

Advice given and response made

The engaged professionals advise you and prepare any response, proposal or application. We keep the documents, dates and parties aligned while that happens.

After

Resolution

We stay with the matter through negotiation and settlement, coordinating the professionals involved until it is formally closed.

Who we work with

Directors, owners, builders and homeowners.

Company directors

Facing a liquidator's demand, an insolvent trading claim, a director penalty notice or personal guarantee exposure.

Business owners

Carrying tax debt, a statutory demand or a failing contract, and weighing up restructuring, administration or an orderly wind-down.

Builders & homeowners

On either side of a domestic building dispute — variations, defects, delay, termination and conciliation.

Fixed fee

Defined pieces of coordination work — gathering and organising a matter, arranging reviews — quoted as one amount before we start.

Staged

Longer matters broken into stages, each priced and approved by you, so costs never run ahead of a decision you have made.

Professional fees

Accredited professionals set and agree their own fees with you in writing before they advise. We tell you what to expect before you are introduced.

Contact us

Speak with us early — the options are always better before a deadline passes.

If a notice, demand or hearing date has arrived, have the document and the date it arrived to hand. First discussions are without obligation.

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Office

Level 7, 21 Victoria Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Hours

Monday to Friday, and by arrangement for urgent matters

ABN

20 991 252 465

Send an enquiry

Tell us what has arrived and when. We respond to urgent enquiries the same business day.

An enquiry is not a request for advice and does not engage any professional. If a deadline is close, call rather than write.

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