Kinross-Smith & Co Lawyers Pty Ltd provides a wide range of legal services but with a focus on the needs of business owners, employment law, succession planning and people buying or selling property. It is operated by Matthew Kinross-Smith, a Law Institute of Victoria Accredited Specialist in Business Law since 2008 and with over 18 years experience in practice. Most services are within his expertise but he does not practice criminal law or Family law.

Matthew's experience is diverse, having commenced legal practice in 1990 with a large national firm in Melbourne. He has a Masters degree in Law (International Law) and worked on a range of international treaty matters for the Commonwealth Government for six years, returning to private practice in Geelong, where he grew up, in 2002.

Matthew has experience in a wide range of areas focusing more recently on commercial/business law (acting for those buying or selling businesses, structuring business entities), property and lease transaction work, succession law (Wills, Powers of Attorney and Appointment of Guardian documents and Will and Trust disputes), employment law and planning law.

He has provided advice/drafted documents and conducted litigation in these areas as well as advising in a range of other areas including intellectual property, franchising, insolvency, insurance, Trade Practices/consumer law, tax/Stamp duty, mortgages and advice on guarantees, occupational health and safety, transactions involving foreign jurisdictions and insolvency. In his early years in practice he also gained experience in criminal law and family law. This breadth of experience can assist in identifying issues that more narrowly focused lawyers may miss. If a legal question is beyond his experience, a referral to a competent lawyer will be provided.