Liquor & Hospitality 

Our liquor and hospitality team provides practical advice in this competitive industry. We have acted for major entities, owners of resorts, investors, wine growers, producers, wine makers, liquor stores, printers, exporters, importers and distributors. 

Having developed a significant wine law practice, we have become involved in all aspects of wine businesses. We have unique insight into the complex and changing issues, which enables our clients to successfully operate in the Australian wine industry. 

Liquor and hospitality encompasses the expertise of asset sales, distribution contracts, environmental and planning law, grape supply contracts, liquor licensing, property sales, process and bottling contracts. It also relies on our cross-disciplines of workplace relations, intellectual property and insurance. 

Summary 

• Acted for internationally-renowned and award-winning Western Australian wineries in all aspects of corporate restructuring, due diligence, and wine law requirements, including liquor licensing of premises.
• Acted for a chain of liquor stores in the corporatising, ownership and management of the group.
• Acted for well-known resorts in the South-West as well as iconic Perth hotels, in complex liquor licensing matters.
• Acted for a popular CBD precinct in grants bar licences.
• Acted for wine producers in the grant of a wine producer's licence, undertaking necessary matters, including requisitions for parties involved.
• Acted for a major Perth hotel, transferring the liquor licence on the restructure of assets between subsidiary companies.
• Acted for numerous wine businesses in contractual and other disputes relating to the supply, storage, processing, bottling and sale of wine.