Strategic edge. Connected advantage.
Leasing
We focus on supporting owners, developers, managers and leasing agents in their dealings with the range of legal issues inherent in the acquisition, development, leasing, management, financing and sales of retail shopping centres and other retail outlets, commercial buildings, industrial and business parks, and other business premises. Our key clients know that what we do for them and how we do it gives both them and us a competitive advantage. Clients find that:
- We attend to all the matters after a lease is signed or a license to occupy is entered into so that clients can get on with their business, without having to worry about tying up the loose ends;
- Our relationships and contacts in the industry provide valuable backup to get deals done;
- Our people deal urgently with matters such as Notices to Remedy a Breach;
- Having undertaken the Property Council of Australia's Diploma in Shopping Centre Management, partner Clive Nichol more fully appreciates the challenges centre management staff face and the environment in which they must deal with them. This is reflected in the ad hoc and telephone contact he has with clients and their staff who know we relate to the situations they face;
- Our understanding of the economics of shopping centre management based on the thousands of transactions we've handled adds another dimension to the advice we provide and the due diligence matters in which we are involved; and
- We assist in on-the-job training of centre management staff formally through providing seminars and workshops and informally through telephone and site contact.
- Agreements to lease /letters of offer
- Assignments
- Deeds of consent/covenant
- Disclosure statements
- Duties Act advice
- Fitout/incentive agreements
- General advice
- GST advice
- Guarantees & indemnities
- Insurance
- Key money
- Letters of demand
- Mortgages of leases
- Notices of renewal
- Notices to remedy breach
- Options
- Outgoings
- Promotions fund
- Redevelopment issues
- Relocation issues
- Restraints of trade
- Repairs
- Relief against forfeiture
- Retail Shop Leases Act compensation
- Securiy deposits/bank guarantees
- Subletting
- Surrenders
- Termination/default
- Trading hours issues
- Turnover rent
- Unconscionable conduct/Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and Fair Trading Act 1989 issues
