Jane Ma is a Senior Associate in the Mallesons Taxation Group in Sydney, with over 15 years of experience advising on the application of income tax law across a broad range of industry sectors and transactions.
Her clients include major domestic and multinational corporations, financial institutions, private companies and high net worth family offices. Jane advises on a range of matters including domestic and cross-border investments, financing transactions, financial products, securitisation and leasing arrangements.
Jane is also a recognised specialist in land tax, regularly advising on land tax assessments and available exemptions. She lodges exemption applications and objections with the Revenue Office on behalf of clients and has successfully secured primary production exemptions on various NSW land parcels.
Jane's work highlights include:
- National Australia Bank: advised on key tax aspects of major transactions including NAB’s $1.44 billion sale of MLC Wealth to Insignia Financial, NAB's acquisition of Citigroup's Consumer Banking Business, NAB's sale of its New Zealand wealth advisory businesses and the NAB/MLC MySuper Class Action settlement.
- Westpac Banking Corporation: advised on a range of tax matters, including withholding tax.
- Temasek: advised on various tax matters, including managed investment trusts.
- MLC Investments: advised on various investments in domestic and offshore funds.
- BetaShares: advised on the tax implications of its fund products and investments.
- Sunsuper/QSuper: reviewed investment fund transfer documentation in connection with the merger of Sunsuper/QSuper.
- Mirvac, Dexus, Ausgrid and other real estate clients: advised on land tax assessments, sought land tax exemptions and lodged objections with the Revenue Office on behalf of clients.
