Retail and Commercial Leasing Guide
On the surface leasing is so simple. A tenant forks over some cash. A landlord gives them a place to setup shop in return. What could go wrong? Well…A LOT. Fail to keep up with legal and market developments? Problems. Underestimate the intricacies of complex leasing structures or disclosures? Problems. Breach or forfeit a lease? Problems. Ensure you’re not caught out by these potentially disastrous situations by shoring up your knowledge and skills at this wildly useful and practical conference.
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
3.5 units in Legal Knowledge
0.5 unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 15 November 2018
Chair: Kathleen Ready, Partner, Ready Hocking Law
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Significant Leasing Cases, Reforms, and Developments
Analyse significant and recent cases, trends and legislative developments impacting retail and commercial leasing, your practice and your clients.
Presented by Samuel Lane, Barrister, McPherson Chambers
9.50am to 10.35am: Complex Leasing Structures
- Subleases: how to avoid common risks
- Concurrent leases: identifying when and why to use concurrent leases and best practices and procedures for implementing them
- Leases and licences under specific legislation
- Other unusual leases, including Crown land and leases involving unique businesses or unusual circumstances
Presented by Robert Cunningham, Special Counsel, Paxton-Hall Lawyers
10.35am to 11.20am: Exercising Options and Relief Against Forfeiture of a Lease
- Proper exercise of an option, relief against failure, breaches
- Practical tips: advising your client when there has been a failure to exercise an option
- Obtaining relief against forfeiture of a lease: advice to tenants and landlords
- Effect of non-compliance with and/or waiver of mandatory statutory obligations under the Retail Shop Leases Act
- Case law update
Presented by Susan McNeil, Barrister, Alfred Lutwyche Chambers
11.20am to 11.35am Morning Tea
11.35am to 12.20pm: Disclosure: The Retail Leases Act, What’s Required, and Consequences of Getting it Wrong
- When does the Retail Leases Act apply?
- Disclosure under the Retail Leases Act: What is required and what are the consequences of non-disclosure or inadequate disclosure?
- Drafting, documentation and best practices
Presented by Heath Gleig-Scott, Partner, Holman Webb Lawyers
Practice Management and Business Skills
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Retail and Commercial Leasing Market Snapshot
- Insights into current market conditions for Brisbane office, commercial and retail spaces
- The latest economic indicators and trends in rent
- Supply and vacancy data
- Analysis of the current market, possible trends to come, and the potential impact on the retail and commercial leasing space
Presented by Simone Dalley, Director, Capital Markets and Peter Dodd, Qld Head of Office Leasing, Cushman & Wakefield
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair