Joey is a Partner in Hall & Wilcox’s Property & Projects team with extensive experience acting for developers, institutional investors, family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on complex property transactions and large-scale development projects across Australia. She is trusted by clients for her strategic thinking, commercial acumen and ability to deliver results in fast-moving and technically demanding projects.
With a comprehensive skill set spanning property development, acquisitions, due diligence, contract negotiations, planning, GAIC SPA approvals, and off the plan bulk stage settlements. She regularly acts on commercial property transactions with expertise in assisting local and foreign developers and investors with property acquisitions, due diligence, contract negotiations, ‘off the plan’ residential developments and land subdivisions.
Her practice also extends to advising family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on the acquisition, disposal and ongoing management of diverse property portfolios. This includes shopping centres, office buildings, industrial facilities, development land and agricultural land. Joey’s integrated approach ensures her clients receive end-to-end legal and commercial support from initial investment and acquisition structuring to long-term asset management and divestment.
Joey is a native Mandarin and Cantonese speaker. Her deep understanding of the Chinese culture and experience in assisting Chinese developers gives her real insight into her clients’ needs. Joey's clients include Dahua Group, Wuzhong International, Bewise Group, Inplace Living, Linkage Group, Titan Development, Eureka International Group, Synnex Australia Pty Ltd, RPM Group, and numerous property funds, among others, on a diverse range of property matters. Joey is known for her pragmatic and solutions-oriented approach, working closely with clients to manage complexity while maintaining focus on project deliverables and business outcomes.
- Dahua Group – advised on multiple acquisitions expanding Dahua’s Melbourne portfolio, including large-scale residential and mixed-use sites.
- CVC capital-backed buyer consortium – acted for the purchasers on the acquisition of a major industrial site in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor (transaction value A$70 million+).
- Linkage Property Group – acted for the vendor (in joint venture) on the sale of a 41-hectare industrial landholding in Craigieburn North to Frasers Property Industrial for A$87 million.
- Sightstone Group – acted for the vendor in the profitable divestment of a greenfield development site (transaction value A$100 million+).
- Inplace Living – acting on its ongoing acquisition program of NDIS housing portfolios across multiple states, including due diligence, contract negotiation and settlement of transactions exceeding A$100 million in aggregate.
- Orchard, Tarneit – acting on the acquisition and ongoing development of a large-scale residential community comprising over 700 lots.
- Riverhills, Wollert – advising on the acquisition and staged development of a community residential subdivision comprising 850 lots.
- Rivulet Project – assisting with the acquisition and greenfield subdivision of over 300 residential lots (estimated value A$150 million+).
- Off-the-plan developments and vacant-land subdivisions – advising vendors and developers on numerous large-scale projects, including consultancy agreements, access arrangements, and “off-the-plan” sales for development projects.
- Ultra-High net worth individual and family offices – advising on the acquisition and disposal of properties of all types, shopping central, office building, industry warehouse and farmland, and assisting with the ongoing legal work.
Memberships
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Member, Victorian Women Lawyers Association
- Member, Australia China Business Council