HOSPITALITY & TOURISM

Our dedicated team of lawyers have specific industry experience working with both large and small businesses in the hospitality and tourism sector. We understand the complexities and challenges that businesses face when serving a fluctuating environment like the tourism sector. Our experience includes advsing generations of small business operators across regional Victoria and Metropolitan Melbourne.

We have a nimble and multidisciplinary team that provides specialist advice to the hospitality and tourism industry. Recent examples of our work include:

advising on planning schemes and requirements for the industry
providing advice about casual and short-term seasonal workers and OH&S obligations
acting on the sale of a large winery (land and business)
advising on commercial and farm leases
advising on the sale of licensed restaurants and cafes
providing specialist advice on the protection of intellectual property assets for a tourism business
advising business operators about their personal and business estate and succession planning goals;
corporate governance advice for large hotels
liquor licence applications, transfers, and variations.

We are committed to supporting the Tourism industry and have partnered with Tourism Greater Geelong and the Bellarine (TGGB). This partnership helps us to understand the sophistication of the tourism industry and visitor demands. Through this partnership, we provide regular commentary on legal issues to members of TGGB, and we have provided guidance to some of the nation’s most innovative and successful tourism and hospitality operators.

We are proud to be a full-service firm, which enables us to provide our clients with holistic advice in various areas of law as set out below: