Our team provides clients with expert advice focussed on achieving the successful completion of real estate projects and transactions.
We assist major corporates, REITs, global technology conglomerates, retailers, investment funds, sovereign wealth and pension funds, fund managers and property developers with their most innovative and strategic transactions and projects.
Our team offers expert, commercial advice on the acquisition, development, financing and sale of key property classes including commercial, industrial, logistics, data centres, student and affordable housing, healthcare, agriculture and forestry.
We act for clients on:
- acquisitions and disposals
- leasing and lease negotiation
- sale and leaseback transactions
- structuring property developments and acquisitions
- property development and project delivery
- mixed-use developments
- urban renewal projects
- joint venture, co-ownership, project management, property and asset management negotiations and documentation
- general real estate issues including subdivisions, easements, enforcement of securities, lease expiry management, disputes and financing.
Work highlights
Mubadala Investment Corporation
Establishment of a joint venture industrial / logistics real estate fund with KKR that is managed by Logos (resized to circa $2 billion).
Volvo Group Australia
Pre-commitment to a purpose built 2-hectare warehousing and distribution centre in Western Sydney for the Australian truck and bus manufacturing business.
PepsiCo
Development and lease from Charter Hall of new purpose-built logistics facility in Adelaide and a head office lease negotiation in North Sydney.
Microsoft
Acquisition and development of brownfield sites in New South Wales and Victoria, typically former industrial assets, for redevelopment for data centres under a range of delivery models, with ongoing involvement in the permitting development and delivery of those sites.
Alvarez & Masal
Acting on all CBD head office leasing transactions in Sydney and Brisbane for this market-entry challenger to the Big 4.
BDO Corporate Restructuring
Acting for the provisional liquidators on the portfolio sale of the real property assets (including development projects) of the Crown Property Group across numerous asset classes in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
