Stephen was admitted in 1976 and to the partnership in 1982. He was the driving force in establishing the firm’s Commercial Litigation section before branching out into Banking and Commercial Property Law. Stephen is an accredited Mediator.

Expertise

Listed below are Stephen’s principal areas of expertise:

• Leasing and licensing including special covenants

• Local Government appeals against development application refusals

• General commercial advice regarding all types of commercial agreements including joint ventures, trust etc

• Banking and financial documentation including loan facility agreements, mortgage and loan enforcement, workouts, finance litigation

• Company reorganization, receiverships, schemes of arrangement

• Acquisition and sale of commercial, industrial and residential property

• Asian investment into Australia and Australian investment in Asia and in particular Indonesia

Stephen Martin
Email: sem@ghb.net.au

Experience

• Supervising partner for over 2000 Colonial State Bank house loan advances.

• Numerous facility agreements for banks and associated security transactions

• Millers Storage and General Electric Capital $70 million company buy back and ongoing funding facility

• Purchase, amalgamation and development of 76-80 Clarence Street, Sydney

• Development & joint venture of 2 Bridge Street, Sydney, 368 Sussex Street Sydney and 321 Pitt Street, Sydney

• Purchase & Sale of 36 Carrington Street, Sydney

• Development of Castle Pines Retirement Village

• Boydtown tourist resort

• Commercial development of 3 Carlingford Street, Epping

• Numerous residential and subdivision developments

• Various fuel joint venture/distributorships with Mobil & other petroleum companies

• Numerous & varied sales of business

• Purchase and development of Bayside Apartments, New South Head Road, Edgecliff

• Purchase and development of “Whites Paddington”

Date of Admission - March 1976

Qualifications -

BA LLB University of Sydney

Accredited Mediator with LEADR