Sydney Industries


Primary Contact

Deborah Cartwright

02 9228 2240
Sydney


Property

Pitcher Partners' experience covers all segments of the property industry including:

  • residential
  • commercial
  • industrial
  • retail
  • sports recreation
  • tourism

Our skilled team can provide direct and regular access to high quality, practical advice in all relevant areas including taxation, business advisory, audit and IT consulting.

We specialise in providing advice to privately owned businesses. Not only have we developed an understanding of the issues, but also the environment within which these clients operate. The industry, stakeholders and structure have a major impact on the advice clients require and how they receive it.

Our clients include family groups, development companies, financiers (both debt and equity), property owners, developers, investors, builders, valuers, agents and equity participants.

Why Pitcher Partners?
 
The key reasons for working with Pitcher Partners are:
 
  • our ability to assess a project at the outset and determine the structural, business, taxation and accounting issues critical to its success
  • our extensive experience in conducting feasibility assessments, whether for project financing, due diligence or consortia purposes
  • we can provide the taxation advice critical to the effective structuring of development projects, as well as, management of GST, an often underestimated and misunderstood issue impacting upon the financial success of development projects
  • our experience in building effective financing structures, including the introduction of equity and joint venture partners and mezzanine financiers
  • our skills in working through financing, debt or structural crises that can arise during a project or development and bringing them to a successful conclusion
  • the experience we have in developing and producing the regular and accurate reports that banks and financiers require for their ongoing monitoring, and to ensure projects remain on schedule and on budget
  • our commitment to partners providing regular and ready access to practical advice
  • value for money. Our charge out rates are approximately two thirds of the big four multinational firms. Our philosophy is to provide experienced and expert partners and senior staff at value for money rates

External Network
 
Our Property Group has developed strong working relationships with various professional firms and organisations across the property and development industry including:
 
  • real estate agents
  • lawyers
  • valuers
  • quantity surveyors
  • financiers
  • equity and mezzanine financiers and participants
We actively seek to refer business opportunities to our clients. Our regular client technical updates also offer our clients great networking opportunities.

Business Advisory
 
Not only do we understand the many financial, organisational and planning issues facing property today, we are able to develop practical solutions and plans to improve business results. We can also manage the implementation of these plans to ensure increased business value is delivered and sustained.
Our skills and services include:
 
  • structuring and strategic planning
  • building, structuring and managing consortia
  • commercial advice and mentoring
  • raising and restructuring finance
  • feasibility studies and financial modelling
  • contract negotiation and management
  • growth and profit strategies
  • budgets, forecasts and cashflow projections
  • management reporting, monitoring
  • pricing and costing
  • business planning
  • business restructuring
  • asset protection
  • temporary accounting assistance
Tax
 
With property and development projects, having the correct tax structure from the beginning can have an extremely beneficial effect on the project’s outcomes. Our tax team specialises in providing this early level advice that can assist organisations to maximise the profits of any given project.

We are also adept at managing relationships between our clients and the various revenue authorities.

Our skills and services include:

  • tax structuring
  • goods and services tax
  • stamp duty
  • liability minimisation
  • international tax issues
  • employment taxes
  • tax planning
  • liaison with revenue authorities
  • tax return preparation
  • compliance
  • tax reviews
  • capital gains tax

Corporate Advisory
 
We are able to provide advice at board level to public and private sector clients on their investments and business transactions, as well as, working with clients on a broad range of capital raisings.

Our skills and services include:

  • independent and other expert reports for inclusion in information memorandum, product disclosure statements, and prospectuses
  • extensive experience with Managed Investment Schemes
  • financial due diligence
  • public and private company valuations
  • merger and acquisition assistance

Audit and Assurance
 
We have an industry wide reputation for independent reporting. Clients appreciate the fact that we rarely encounter conflict of interest situations, and provide realistic fees for premium service. Property syndicates, which comprise passive equity investors, are increasingly seeking our services to assist in the preparation of syndicate/joint venture financial statements, and to prepare reports.

Our skills and services include:

  • statutory audit
  • due diligence and business acquisition
  • internal audits
  • risk assessment audits
  • finance security audits
  • pre-lending reviews
  • special purpose audits
  • investigative and forensic accounting

Technology Consulting
 
We are able to assist property clients in the development of systems and procedures and in maximising the value of their IT infrastructure and resources.

Our skills and services include:

  • IT strategy and planning
  • project management
  • solutions selection and delivery
  • web development
  • process improvement and reporting
  • group IT management
  • data mining / warehousing
  • knowledge management