Emily Masters is a key member of the highly regarded Mallesons Real Estate practice. She has extensive experience across complex real estate projects and capital transactions.
She is a trusted advisor to institutional and private investors, listed property trusts, developers and financiers. She has also advised offshore participants on their first forays into the Australian real estate market and is a member of Mallesons Japan desk.
Emily has advised on securing land, funding, subdivision and leasing arrangements for developments across Australia. She also regularly provides strategic advice on titling issues, structuring arrangements and risk allocation on real estate and infrastructure projects.
Her work highlights include:
- Real estate capital transactions: on high value real estate transactions, including Daibiru’s acquisition of a 50% interest in 7 Spencer Street, Melbourne and of 135 King Street, Sydney
- Residential development including build-to-rent (multi-family): including advising Local on many of their Australian build-to-rent developments and Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate on its investment in a build-to-rent project at 899 Collins Street, Melbourne
- Commercial development: structuring complex development and anchor leasing arrangements for landmark office, industrial and healthcare projects, including the Brenan Place project at St Vincent’s Hospitals’ Fitzroy campus and SAHMRI 2, a state of the art clinical and research facility within Adelaide's $3.6b BioMed City precinct
- Agribusiness: on high value transactions of agricultural property for operators and investors, including the acquisition of Cubbie Station, the largest irrigated cotton farm and irrigation property in the Southern Hemisphere,
- Infrastructure projects: on structuring tenure arrangements and implementing developments for infrastructure operators, primarily in airports, ports and logistics assets
- Joint ventures: structuring and advising on the implementation of joint ventures in the real estate sector
