Hotels
The firm's heritage practice, built around hotel operators.
LAS Lawyers was founded in 1989 as a specialist advisory to the NSW liquor and hospitality industry. Three decades later, hotel operators remain the firm's core clientele.
Overview
How we work with hotels.
We act for hotel groups, family-owned hotels, and incoming operators on every dimension of running a hotel: the freehold and the business, the licence and the GMEs, the lease and the operator, the trade and the regulator.
Our work spans acquisitions and divestments, NCAT appeals, licence variations and transfers, gaming entitlement transfers and threshold increases, and the disciplinary work that doesn't make the press but decides whether a venue keeps trading.
Hotel operators come back to LAS because we understand the deal commercially: the lease is the deal, the licence is the deal, the GMEs are the deal, and the cash flow that funds it all is the deal. We work the whole stack.
Practices we apply
The relevant areas, through your lens.
Liquor & Gaming
Licence applications, transfers, variations, NCAT appeals, gaming machines, threshold increases and prosecutions.
Read the practice pageProperty
Freehold acquisition and divestment, leasehold transfers, mortgages, and PEXA settlement.
Read the practice pageCommercial
Hotel business sales and acquisitions, structuring, supply contracts and operating agreements.
Read the practice pageLeasing
Leases of licensed premises (landlord and tenant) including operating leases and management agreements.
Read the practice pageFinance
Hotel finance arrangements, security over freehold and gaming entitlements, and PPSR registration.
Read the practice pageDisputes
Licensing prosecutions, regulator complaints, NCAT proceedings and commercial litigation.
Read the practice page
Hotel operators
Ready to act on the venue?
Whether you're acquiring, divesting, varying, defending or restructuring, LAS Lawyers can handle every dimension of the matter, from the freehold to the licence.
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