Hospitality including clubs, liquor and gaming

Hospitality operators, especially those involved in provision of liquor or gaming, are heavily regulated. Registered clubs are also regulated. CBP provides advice and legal services across the hospitality sector.

CBP are one of only a handful of law firms in New South Wales with a recognised club law practice, and further provides industry leading property, planning, construction and insurance law experience.

CBP's team has over 30 years' experience in the hospitality sector and registered clubs, providing commercial legal advice to ClubsNSW, a range of other leading clubs and hospitality providers as well as investors, including:

  • club amalgamations, insolvencies and workouts
  • hotel sales and purchases
  • property redevelopments and project development agreements
  • planning and zoning issues
  • building projects
  • hospitality business sales and purchases
  • prosecutions and complaints
  • registered clubs compliance
  • liquor licensing applications and transactions
  • gaming including gaming threshold applications and poker machine entitlement transactions
  • entertainment contracts
  • supply contracts and tendering
  • competition law issues
  • governance and statutory compliance
  • premises leasing
  • catering arrangements
  • workplace relations and industrial law
  • corporations legislation requirements
  • property taxes
  • intellectual property issues including trade mark and names protection
  • privacy requirements
  • anti-discrimination issues
  • contractor and consultant arrangements
  • advertising, marketing and promotions
  • unincorporated associations
  • insurance
  • constitutions
  • elections and conduct of meetings.