Partner

Deren Hassan

Sector

Property ,

Services

Commercial Disputes ,

Deren is a leading commercial disputes lawyer who regularly acts on multifaceted, high profile and complex legal matters for Australia’s leading businesses and individuals.
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Renowned for his incisive and strategic approach to commercial and real estate disputes, Deren has for more than 20 years acted for clients across various jurisdictions in superior and appeal Courts and specialised Tribunals in addition to mediations and alternative dispute resolution processes.

Deren is widely recognised for his particular expertise in retail, commercial and industrial lease disputes and has represented Australia’s premier shopping centre owners, landlords and managers.

Valued by his clients for his commercial acumen and his in depth understanding of their key objectives, Deren represents and advises a diverse range of clients including ASX listed and private companies, prominent individuals, banking and financial institutions, investment companies, real estate investment trusts, institutional landlords, property developers, franchisors, brokerage houses, security firms, manufacturers and distributors, professional services executives and medical organisations.

Deren is well known for resolving client challenges and delivering legally sound outcomes.

Expertise

Deren’s expertise includes:

Commercial disputes
Retail, commercial and industrial lease disputes
Corporate disputes
Franchise disputes
Misleading and deceptive conduct claims
Sale of land disputes
Wind Up Proceedings
Bankruptcy Proceedings
Sale of Business Disputes
Contract disputes
Administrative and consumer law
Commercial real estate disputes
Joint venture and partnership disputes
Debt recovery and insolvency
Professional conduct and disciplinary matters

Recent Projects

Acting in retail lease disputes for the world’s largest shopping centre owners and Australia’s leading shopping centre owners and landlords.
Acting in various commercial disputes for a multinational company manufacturing and supplying building and construction materials.
Acting for a private company claiming $17 million in the New South Wales Supreme Court for breach of contract and misleading and deceptive conduct.
Acting for a shopping centre owner in the New South Wales Court of Appeal and Supreme Court successfully opposing multiple urgent relief against forfeiture applications, Duty Judge applications and an appeal during COVID -19 Regulations restricting lessor’s rights to take enforcement action.
Acting for a property developer who funded land acquisition to successfully recover $6 million, holding costs and other losses in the Supreme Court of Victoria against a joint venture party who failed to deliver project construction.
Acting for a private technology company receiving government subsidies for installing internet in remote and regional areas to successfully defeat substituting creditors in a Supreme Court wind up application.
Acting for a serviced apartment operator in the High Court of Australia to successfully oppose a special leave application on grounds the application raises no point of general principle or issue of public importance and does not seek revision of settled principles relating to jurisdictional error.
Acting for a buyer in a sale of business dispute in the Supreme Court of NSW in relation to whether a special condition in the contract for sale obligated the buyer to pay an additional fee to the seller when granted a further licence at the occupy the premises.
Successfully acting for a vendor in the Supreme Court of NSW and NSW Court of Appeal where it was alleged that a fee paid pursuant to a put-and-call option agreement. was a conventional deposit rather than an option fee.
Acting for a purchaser developer in a sale of land dispute in the Supreme Court of Victoria for breach of contract and misleading and deceptive conduct against the vendor, real estate agent and conveyancing lawyers regarding a failure to disclose soil contamination at the property.
Acted for a former equity partner of a national accounting firm in the Supreme Court of Victoria who made a claim against a former partner who, in breach of the partnership deed and their fiduciary duties invested in a former client of firm without presenting the offer to the other partners.
Successfully acted for an industrial landlord regarding the lessee’s failure to pay arrears and make good costs.