Rachael is a senior associate in Russell McVeagh's commercial real estate team. She advises New Zealand's most sophisticated property investors and developers, including leading domestic and overseas funds, NZX-listed entities, property institutions and corporate property owners/occupiers on their most important projects, including market-leading, high-value capital markets transactions, real estate investments, leasing and development projects, and obtaining overseas investment consent. Rachael has broad experience in legal project management and implementing complex and large-scale real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, freehold and strata subdivisions and greenfield/brownfield developments across the retirement village, grocery, health, logistics, office and tech sectors. She also has a keen interest in forestry, ETS and green energy projects, working with a number of clients on the expansion and management on their portfolios in these areas.
Prior to joining Russell McVeagh in mid-2020, Rachael most recently spent two years working in the real estate team at Clifford Chance in London and previously also worked in the property team at another New Zealand top-tier law firm.