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Commercial Real Estate in Australia

Baker & McKenzie’s Real Estate Group assists major local and international clients in maximising the efficiency of their real estate investment portfolios throughout Australia, the Asia Pacific and beyond. The group is also renowned for its hotels practice and, in the last year, has acted on a significant proportion of the region's largest hotel mergers and acquisitions.

The group has extensive experience assisting real estate fund managers, private equity investors, hotel management companies, public and private sector clients (including high net worth clients), project financiers, developers and property trusts doing business across Australia and in offshore markets. The group has also built a reputation for helping large corporations meet their real estate needs by successfully negotiating commercial leases and assisting in their accommodation and facilities portfolio management transactions as well as outsourcing solutions.

Working closely with our global offices, as well as Baker & McKenzie's Construction, Hotels Resorts & Tourism, REITs, Taxation and Financial Services groups, we provide comprehensive, high-quality legal services to our clients, in their activities in Australia and across the globe.

Baker & McKenzie discusses the growing trend for co-investment in Australian commercial land and buildings This newsletter attempts to draw out some of the key issues to determine whether a co-investment investment in Australian commercial land and buildings is ultimately successful. We summarise the commercial drivers that are material to property investors in entering into such agreements as well as technical legal issues that need to be addressed.		Australia to cut withholding tax for Clean Building MITs On 16 August 2012, the Government issued draft legislation to reduce the final withholding tax rate from 15% to 10% for MITs that only hold newly constructed green buildings.		Key considerations when dealing with liquor licensing in hotel transactions This article reinforces the importance of undertaking several key steps to understand a hotel’s liquor licensing operating and ownership structure when executing hotel transactions. Failure to do so can put the transaction timeline — or the transaction itself — at risk and result in greater regulatory exposure for sellers and buyers.
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