Current PracticeWith close to 20 years experience in property law, Peter heads up the Property, Planning & Construction team.
Peter's experience includes:
- sales, purchases and advising on structuring of commercial property transactions;
- acting in relation to all key components of commercial and residential developments;
- conduct of property and environmental due diligence;
- leasing of commercial property; and
- mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and entities.
ExperiencePeter has acted for APN Property Group, the Drive Projects Group, Dennis Family Corporation and many other companies and property developers as well as private companies and family groups. He has undertaken a wide range of transactions for these clients, including:
- acting in the acquisition of a large development site in north-western Melbourne involving due diligence and contract negotiation, preparing construction contracts for the construction of a multiple warehouse/office complex on the property;
- negotiating and preparing agreements for lease and leases of shopping centres and commercial and industrial complexes in all easter seaboard states;
- acting for a private group in relation to apartment developments including acquisition of the development site, advising on town planning issues and other construction and development issues and acting in relation to the off-the-plan sales of the apartments;
- acting for the developer in the development of a significant suburban Melbourne commercial property worth approximately $35 million;
- acting in the sale by a family group of its industrial property portfolio for $120 million;
- acting for the landlord vendor of an Australia-wide portfolio of in excess of 40 leased commercial properties worth in excess of $300 million; and
- advising in relation to the structuring of, and negotiating all documents for, co-venture agreements between a private client and his listed company co-venturer for the development of residential subdivisions.
QualificationsPeter has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University. He became a partner in 2000.
Peter is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Property Council of Australia. |