Professional biography
Stuart Dixon-Smith is a Partner in our Sydney office where he specialises in property development and property finance law.
He acts for developers or lenders on the construction, financing and development of major properties and infrastructure projects.
Stuart generally acts as coordinating partner in major transactions. Consequently he has developed broad legal and non-legal skills.His legal skillcover property acquisitions and sales, leasing, planning, subdivision, construction, banking and finance, stamp duty, property related taxation, public property trusts, listings, and debt issues. Non-legal skills include business finance, financial budgeting and modelling, transaction structuring, database information management, computer systems, negotiation skills and management of large property transactions.
Stuart also has particular experience of complex residential developments, hotels, tourism and hospitals.
Stuart has been nominated as a leading individual in Real Estate by PLC Which Lawyer? 2009 and APL 500 2008/2009. Chambers Global Guide 2009 also recommended Stuart in the area of Real Estate and described him as a "leading light" and said he is "highly regarded for his handling of large transactions..."
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