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Need legal assistance or have questions? The team at BSV Liquor and Gaming Lawyers is ready to help. Led by Tony, an experienced solicitor with over four decades in the liquor and hospitality industry, we provide expert guidance and support. Whether you're dealing with licensing issues, regulatory compliance, or legal disputes, we are committed to delivering practical and tailored solutions for your business.

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PROFILE

Tony Schwartz

Tony is a prominent figure in the liquor and hospitality industry, known for delivering practical and precise legal advice to modern licensed businesses. His primary objective is to understand and fulfil his clients' needs. He provides timely and cost-effective advice, with a strong emphasis on finding practical solutions that can be tailored to meet their brief. Practising as a solicitor since 1979, Tony has spent most of his career specialising in the liquor and gaming sector. For over 39 years, he has been the author of textbook McDonald’s Liquor and Gaming Laws of NSW. His extensive experience, meticulous approach, professionalism, and exceptional client service are widely recognised. Tony frequently receives instructions from hospitality industry operators, other legal firms, planning consultants, architects, and interior designers. He offers specialised legal advice to a diverse range of businesses within the hospitality sector, including key stakeholders in state significant developments throughout NSW. These include venues located in regional and rural locations and throughout Greater Sydney. He supervises a team at BSV Liquor and Gaming Lawyers that often act for developers, project managers and applicants involved in major Sydney CBD office towers, hotels, international accommodation venues, resorts, golf courses, as well as shopping centres, registered clubs and sporting arenas.

His clientele includes both major and niche businesses involved in the retail, wholesale, or production of liquor. Tony has substantial experience representing both applicants and stakeholders in various liquor licence and gaming-related applications, assisting with the planning approval component and acting in matters involving a comprehensive range of compliance issues, licences, club, and gaming-related authorisations. Since 2004, Tony has been actively engaged in the preparation and evaluation of evidence for community or local impact assessments, particularly focusing on social impacts related to liquor licences and their authorisations. This extensive experience positions him well for the recent 1 July 2024 reforms, including the preparation of the Statement of Risk and Potential Effects, which will replace the Community Impact Statement. The BSV Lawyers liquor and gaming team was led by Tony for over 30 years as a principal at Back Schwartz Vaughan Lawyers.

Examples of some of his work follows and can be accessed on this link.

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We welcome you to visit our office conveniently located in Potts Point in Sydney. At BSV Liquor and Gaming Lawyers, we provide a welcoming and professional environment where you can discuss what you would like to achieve with your business in person.

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