Current practice

On the basis of her broad corporate law experience, Jane undertakes a wide range of work for various clients who are involved with property development and infrastructure projects across a variety of industry sectors.

Jane’s experience extends to transaction structuring, acquisitions and disposals, commercial and retail leasing, development agreements, all types of construction/works contracts, consultant agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, supply/distribution agreements and facilities management agreements.

Industry experience

Recent projects that Jane has taken a key role in or been involved with include:

Property/Development

• Lend Lease’s Victoria Harbour development at Docklands (including the NAB Head Office, Ericsson Head Office, Marina arrangements, Dock 5 Apartments, Mosaic Apartments, ANZ Head Office, Lend Lease Melbourne Head Office)
• Lend Lease’s bid to the Banyule Council for the Greensborough town centre re-development
• Equity Pacific Capital Partners’ development of a head office for National Foods
• Fairfax’s sale of its head office in Melbourne and new head office development in Melbourne
• CBA’s bid to finance the Babcock/CITTA bid for the St Kilda Triangle Project
• Coles property acquisitions and leasing arrangements in Victoria
• Delfin Lend Lease’s residential developments at Edgewater, Craigieburn, Caroline Springs, Laurimar Estate and Pakenham
• Waterfront City’s development at Docklands.

Construction

• Bovis Lend Lease’s construction management services arrangements with United/Telstra
• QIC’s expansion of the Watergardens Shopping Centre at Melton
• Ford’s upgrade of its facilities at Geelong in Victoria
• National Australia Bank in relation to the construction aspects of the Cove Apartments Project in Sydney and Eureka Tower Project in Melbourne
• Queen Victoria Project in Melbourne involving acting for the financiers on the construction aspects of the transaction
• ANZ’s financing of the Botanicca, Verve 501 and Mondo mixed use development projects
• Bank West’s mezzanine financing of a stage at MAB’s New Quay development at Docklands.

Public Private Partnerships

• Melbourne Convention Centre acting for the Macquarie Consortium
• Royal Showgrounds Project acting for the financiers
• Royal Womens Hospital Project acting for the Leighton Consortium
• Melbourne Docklands Studios bid for a studios complex at Docklands.

• Swanbank’s proposed greenfields paper mill in Queensland
• Proposed pulp mill at Penola in South Australia
• Gunn’s proposed greenfields pulp mill in Tasmania
• PaperlinX’s Maryvale Mill Upgrade – wood yard BOO arrangements
• CHH’s various national wood supply and equipment supply and installation arrangements
• Various equipment supply and installation arrangements for Olex at its Tottenham plant in Victoria.

Transport

• Melbourne City Link Project
• Melbourne City Link Extension Project
• MTE/CGEA Connex new rolling stock procurement and financing.

Professional background