Commercial leasing for landlords

Acting for property trusts and funds with large property portfolios. National ‘stream’ leasing. Creating and maintaining extranets to house all of the vital transaction documents. Ensuring that each asset is always ‘sale ready’. Weekly progress reporting on the status of all transactions. Drafting precedent leases for use across a national portfolio. National retail law compliance. Protecting landlord’s interests on an assignment or sublease.

Commercial leasing for tenants

Acting for entities with large national real estate portfolios as a tenant or on ‘one-off’ transactions for key sites, including commercial, industrial, infrastructure and retail leases. Drafting pro forma leases, key clauses, agreements for lease and licence documents for tenants. Conducting audits of tenant portfolios to identify risks and issues. National retail law compliance. Documenting, negotiating and implementing agreements to assign and sublet.

Non-compliance advice

Advising on landlord and tenant rights under commercial leases and strategies to achieve a successful resolution where there has been an (alleged) breach, including lease enforcement rights and lease restructures. Working with external litigation experts to advise on property law aspects of disputes. Documenting agreements to resolve disputes. See more at Distressed Real Estate.

Property aspects of corporate transactions

Working with external corporate and M&A experts as part of a team on a listing, share sale, asset sale, business sale or other transaction to expertly advise where the target company has property assets.

Specialist leasing advisory

• Airports: Advising on leasing of airport sites nationally and dealing with complications arising from airports being located on Commonwealth land. See more at Airports.
• Retirement villages and aged care: Complex leasing and licensing structures used in aged care and retirement villages, including concurrent leases. See more at Specialist Advisory.
• Crown land: Leasing and licensing of Crown land reserves and community land. Dealing with farming land, enclosure permits and water rights. See more at Local Government & Crown Land.
• Environmental and renewable: Dealing with contamination and other environmental issues in the context of a leasing transaction. Documenting the agreed ‘baseline’ and ‘make good’ positions. Advising on remediation projects, environmental risk allocation, contamination management and renewable energy-related leasing arrangements. See more at Environmental & Renewable.
• Heritage: Dealing with heritage issues in the context of a lease. See more at Local Government & Crown Land.
• Liquor: Dealing with liquor licensing issues which arise as part of a lease transaction. Leasing restaurants, pubs, hotels and bars. Dealing with liquor law non-compliance issues as part of a lease. See more at Specialist Advisory.