A well drafted lease agreement protects both parties rights and obligations. Our team have a deep knowledge of the Australian property environment, whether acting for a tenant or a landlord.
Lease agreements can play a pivotal role in determining the profitability, sustainability and legal compliance of any project or investment, and partnering with a team that has profound knowledge and experience is paramount.
With years of experience, our team brings together a unique blend of legal expertise, industry insight and a thorough understanding of the complexities associated with property leasing. Whether it's negotiating favourable lease terms, mitigating risks or ensuring compliance with evolving regulations, our team of over 60 Partners and lawyers can provide you with comprehensive and strategic legal support at every step.
Our multidisciplinary team can advise nationally across all facets of leasing. We act for landlords and tenants on commercial, retail and industrial leasing. We create value by managing the delivery of risk and protecting long term interests. We can advise you on the terms of tenancy agreements, taking into account market context.
We offer a full range of leasing solutions including, land lease models, leasing arrangements, portfolio management, NABERS ratings, car parks, contracts with major tenants, specific requirements of government tenants, licences for signage, section 173 agreements and staged leasing arrangements.
We also offer our new technology leasing tracker that allows for seamless, real-time monitoring the status of each of your leasing matters, on a self-service basis.
A recent VCAT case highlights the issues landlords need to consider in retail leasing.
There are stricter rules for foreign persons wanting to purchase residential property in Australia.
Maddocks supports property developers and investors across all types of build to hold projects.
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Our team specialises in property work across the education sector, including schools, universities, TAFE/government and private education businesses, colleges and institutes.
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Our expertise in the infrastructure real estate sector is relied upon by both the public and private sector, having worked on some of the largest energy, water and rail projects in the country.
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Maddocks brings over 15 years of experience advising private developers and investors on land lease communities, including involvement in the structuring of the first ever Australian land lease model.
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Our Real Estate team support developers with thorough and flexible master contracts of sale, management of staging, owners corporation structuring and rules, responding to planning permit conditions and managing integration of elements in mixed use projects.
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Our team advises a number of participants in creating and implementing restructuring, insolvency and recovery strategies.
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For nearly 20 years we have assisted the City of Sydney with various leases, terminations and disputes for a wide variety and scale of tenancies (retail, commercial and industrial). Our work is across a number of sites in Sydney owned by the council. Tenants include various educational facilities, major retailers, entertainment and restaurants.
Managing the leasing portfolio of the historic Georges Building, including setting up a suite of precedent leasing documents for this building, negotiating numerous long-term leases (both retail and commercial) and drafting bespoke clauses to accommodate the needs of tenants whilst maintaining the historic significance of this building.
Large commercial leasing with complex fit-out and incentive deeds and leasing of premises with high degrees of technological requirement over the past decade, including significant leases at 259 George Street Sydney, and 601 Pacific Highway, St Leonards.
For over a decade our team has been advising Early Light International on their full portfolio of leases including Northpoint Tower Property Pty Ltd, 1 Castlereagh Street Pty Ltd, Bridge Street Exchange Centre Pty Ltd. Our work includes all aspects of leasing comprising of office space, retail and hotel.
Supported Stockland on its premium master planned industrial precinct. Drafting and negotiating the agreement for lease, lease and incentive deed for New Aim’s new purpose-built tenancy of 31,000sqm of warehouse and office space, and co-ordinating the new leasing arrangement with the surrender of New Aim’s three older facilities.
Our team has work on the leasing of 222 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, a newly constructed 9-storey office building with ground floor café and co-working space. We set up the precedent leasing documents, including fit-out and incentive deeds, and have now assisted with 12 leases.
Providing pro-forma leasing documents and negotiating Agreements for Lease for Woolworths and over 35 other speciality shops as part of a $500m revitalisation at Mernda Town Centre.
Maddocks has been supporting EIG Development for several years to deliver its Opalia Estate project - a major masterplanned community located in Melbourne’s rapidly growing western corridor, Melton South.
