We are specialist legal advisors to the property, liquor, and hospitality industry.
A practice with expertise across both residential and commercial matters
Our property practice offers a broad range of services, with our lawyers experienced in all facets of property transactions and frequently handling a wide range of matters.
- Conveyancing – sales and purchases
- Property development – advice and document preparation for land and strata subdivisions
- Property transactions – sales and purchases
- Property development – off the plan sales
- Commercial and retail leasing – act for lessors and lessees
We enable our clients’ businesses to grow and prosper
Our firm is fundamentally a commercial practice servicing the needs of our clients engaged in business endeavours. Our clients entrust us to provide the advice and document preparation necessary for the continued operation and growth of their enterprises.
- Commercial real estate transactions – acting for vendors and purchasers
- Commercial and retail leasing transactions
- Business transactions – acting for vendors and purchasers
- Advice on business structures
- Negotiation, preparation and advice on supply and service contracts
- Preparation and advice on commercial loan and security agreements
- Commercial litigation and dispute resolution
- Preparation of bespoke contracts for specialised business requirements
The bedrock of our firm, our knowledge in this area is unparalleled
Our firm was founded as a specialist practice servicing the hospitality and liquor industry, and today it remains a core focus for LAS. We are widely considered to be a leading firm in the field of liquor and gaming law in NSW.
- Sale and acquisition of hotel businesses
- Community Impact Statements
- Due diligence advice
- Compliance advice
- Legal representation in prosecutions for licensing offences
- Legal representation in relation to any applications for the imposition of conditions on the licence or disciplinary complaints
- Applications for new and removal of existing liquor licences
- Liquor licence transfers
- Applications for liquor licence authorisations
- Objections to liquor licence applications
- GME leasing
- Gaming Machine threshold increases and Local Impact Assessments
- Gaming Machine entitlement transfers
Navigating the sea of applications and documentation on your behalf
The foundation of any project is obtaining the necessary approvals and consents to carry out the development proposed. We help hospitality clients create new venues or intensify existing operations, and developer clients create a new mixed use residential strata subdivision, or residential land estate.
- Review of planning determinations
- Advice and interpretation of planning controls to guide developer strategy
- Planning appeals to the Land and Environment Court
- Defending environmental prosecutions and civil proceedings for breaches of planning laws
- Liaison with architects, surveyors and building contractors
- Preparation of development applications and supporting documents
- Advice and document preparation on subdivision, including strata subdivisions
- Preparation and advice on development joint inventure agreements and option agreements