
Joey Liu
Partner and Head of Southeast Asia Practice
Joey advises both Australian and international developers, property funds, family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on a broad range of matters, including clients from Singapore, Malaysia and China investing in Australian real estate.
She acts on residential, mixed-use, industrial and land subdivision projects across Australia, from site acquisition through to delivery and asset disposal. Her development work includes due diligence, contract negotiation, consultancy and access arrangements, development agreements, off-the-plan sales, land subdivisions and bulk settlements.
Joey also advises on the acquisition, disposal and leasing of shopping centres, office buildings industrial facilities, development land and agricultural land. She supports clients from initial acquisition through to the ongoing management and eventual divestment of their property portfolios.
As Head of the firm's Southeast Asia Practice, Joey is often is the first point of contact for Southeast Asian clients doing business in Australia, whether on a single transaction or an ongoing basis. Advising in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, she works closely with specialists across corporate and M&A, FIRB, funds and financial services, tax, private wealth and succession, employment and immigration, and disputes to provide clients with coordinated advice. Through the practice's relationships with independent law firms across the region, she also supports clients on matters extending beyond Australia.
- Major development projects, including advising on the acquisition, delivery and realisation of master-planned mixed-use communities such as the Orchard community in Tarneit (800 lots), the Riverhills community in Wollert (900 lots) and the Menangle Park development (more than 3,000 lots).
- Advising on various mixed use apartment development projects across the full development cycle, from site acquisition and planning through construction, off-the-plan sales and final settlement.
- Representing for a specialist disability accommodation provider on its multi-state acquisition programme of NDIS housing portfolios.
- Acting on the acquisition and ongoing management of various shopping centres.
- Supporting Southeast Asian property funds on their Australian real estate investments, including conducting due diligence on target assets, and on other related property matters, including acquisitions, leasing and ongoing asset management.
- Acting for a Chinese developer on the acquisition of greenfield site portfolios exceeding A$1 billion in aggregate.
- A major industrial site acquisition in Melbourne's northern growth corridor (A$70 million+), acting for the joint venture vendor.
- Acting for a joint venture vendor on the A$87 million sale of a 41-hectare industrial landholding to a major listed industrial developer.
- Advising family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on the acquisition, disposal, leasing and ongoing management of commercial, industrial and agricultural property portfolios.
Memberships and community involvement
- Australia China Business Council | Member
- Law Institute of Victoria | Member
- Victorian Women Lawyers Association | Member