Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Robert Schneider, Consultant, HWL Ebsworth; Best Lawyers Australia for Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2020 - 2023 editions
What Vendors, Purchasers and Third Parties Need to Examine: Due Diligence in Standard Property Deals, Collective Sales and Rezoning
Missing a key detail can cost your client everything. From standard transactions to collective sales and rezoning, you need to know exactly what to check, who to question, and where the traps lie. The renowned and experienced Ian McKnight will provide a clear, methodical framework for conducting thorough due diligence, ensuring your client’s interests are protected at every stage.
Presented by Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers
Presenters
Robert Schneider, Consultant, HWL EbsworthRobert has extensive experience acting and advising in commercial disputes and has specialised in retail and commercial lease disputes and other property related litigation. Robert has assisted a broad range of clients in the property industry, including owners of shopping centres, owners of other retail properties, owners of commercial properties, large retail and commercial tenants and property developers and investors. Robert regularly chairs and has previously presented at external seminars on commercial and retail leases and other property related seminars. Robert has been listed in Best LawyersTM Australia for Alternative Dispute Resolution in the 2020 and 2021 editions as well as the 2022 and 2023 editions.
Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers
Ian McKnight is a Practice Group leader and widely regarded as a doyen of strata law in New South Wales. His standing has been earned over the course of a 43 year career bestriding property law and strata management. Unique amongst property lawyers, Ian is a genuine specialist. Strata and community title law is not a part time pursuit, it forms the core of his day-to-day legal practice. He brings firsthand experience of the strata challenges to his advice from his time as a director of a corporate strata management firm. A sought after keynote speaker, Ian provides regular education sessions to the Real Estate Institute of Australia and on occasion to Strata Community Australia. He publishes widely on the subject of strata law. Ian counts among his clients strata managing agents, owners corporations, developers, building managers, property professionals, real estate investors and regulators.
