- Essential Reading For Australian Business Owners & Investors
Protect Your Assets
A practical guide for Australian business owners, professionals and families who want to keep what they’ve built safe from avoidable risk.
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- ABOUT THE BOOK
What Separates The Protected From The Exposed
You work hard to create wealth. The hard part is keeping it.
Protect Your Assets is a plain‑English guide to how Australian law actually treats your home, savings, business and investments when things go wrong. Drawing on nearly two decades of advising business owners, investors, family offices and high‑net‑worth families, Gavin McInnes explains how smart structuring can put a buffer between your assets and the risks you face every day.
Rather than abstract theory, the book walks through real‑world patterns Gavin sees in practice – from business failures and disputes, to relationship breakdowns, regulatory action and unexpected claims – and shows how different structures hold up under pressure. The goal is simple: give you enough understanding to work with your advisers and put robust, ethical protection in place.
01 - The Anatomy Of Wealth Exposure
A practical overview of where Australians most commonly put their wealth at risk – from how the family home is owned, to business structures, personal guarantees, investments and informal arrangements between family members. The aim is to help you see your own weak spots before a creditor or claimant does.
02 - Protecting The Home, Savings & Investments
How to think about protecting the family home, cash savings and investment portfolio in an integrated way. This section explains, in plain English, the different tools that can be used to separate everyday risk from long‑term wealth, and the trade‑offs that come with each approach.
03 - Structuring Businesses & Investment Vehicles
A guide to using companies, trusts and other entities to house active business activities and more passive investments. Rather than focusing on tax, the emphasis is on practical asset protection, control and succession – how ownership and decision‑making really work in practice.
04 – Planning For Disputes, Creditors & Relationship Breakdown
What actually happens to your assets when things go wrong – disputes, insolvency, claims and relationship breakdown. This section does not promise “bulletproofing”, but shows how well‑thought‑out structures can reduce the impact of common events and give you more options when pressure comes.
05 – Building Your Asset Protection Team & Next Steps
Why asset protection is a team sport, not a DIY project. Gavin outlines how lawyers, accountants and financial advisers should work together, what questions to ask them, and how to review your arrangements over time so your protection plan keeps pace with your life and wealth.
- About The Author
Counsel Trusted by Those Who Can’t Afford To Be Wrong
Accredited Specialist
Recognised In Doyle’s Guide
Featured In Lawyers Weekly
Gavin McInnes is an Accredited Specialist in Business Law and the founding partner of GRM LAW. For nearly 20 years he has advised private and listed companies, private credit funds, real estate fund managers, business owners and high‑net‑worth families across Australia.
His practice sits at the intersection of corporate, banking & finance, property and structuring. Gavin has acted on major roll‑ups, significant real estate transactions and complex private credit deals, giving him a front‑row view of how different ownership and protection strategies perform in the real world.
Gavin is consistently recognised in leading legal directories and awards and is known for his direct, commercial approach. Protect Your Assets distils the principles he applies with clients every day into a guide that any motivated reader can understand and act on with the right team.
- WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY
Those Who Protect Their Legacy Speak Plainly
“I’ve run businesses for more than 20 years and thought I understood risk. This book showed me, in simple language, exactly where I was exposed and what conversations I needed to have with my advisers. It paid for itself many times over in peace of mind.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Private Company, Brisbane
“Protect Your Assets finally connected the dots between my personal finances, our family trust and the operating company. It doesn’t try to turn you into a lawyer – it gives you the questions to ask so you can get proper advice and sleep at night.”
FOUNDER
Professional Services Firm, Sydney
“As an investor with assets in different entities, I found Gavin’s explanations of control, ownership and risk incredibly useful. The real‑world examples make it clear what works, what doesn’t, and why structure matters long before anything goes wrong.”
INVESTOR
Property & Equities, Melbourne
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