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Colin Biggers & Paisley bolsters property and development practice
National law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley has strengthened its property and development legal services offering with two new appointments across two offices.
Lauren Croft
The two new appointments join the firm’s Sydney and Melbourne offices, bringing with them more than 35 years of experience combined. Deanne Methven joins the Sydney property and development team as a special counsel, and the bourgeoning Melbourne team welcomes Marina Basile as a senior associate.
“We are thrilled to welcome Deanne and Marina onboard. Experience as a client, and a senior lawyer, makes Deanne an incredibly strategic, effective property lawyer with extensive experience negotiating and drafting leases, leading to commercial outcomes for her clients,” he said.
“One of our major priorities for the next year is to continue to secure greater share of the institutional office, retail and industrial leasing market, and Deanne’s expertise in this area, including with GPT and Lendlease, working with our senior property partner Matthew Castley, will help enormously to bring this vision to life.”
This news follows the appointment of David Passarella, partner in the planning and environment team in Melbourne, a move which, according to the firm, “completed a strategic objective of the practice to have an end-to-end property and development legal services offering in the southern state”.
“We intend to focus very heavily on ‘staking our claim’ in the Melbourne legal services market and leveraging our profile as one of the pre-eminent east coast property and development practices offering end-to-end legal services for property development projects,” Mr Oliver added.
“As such, Marin[a] Basile’s appointment to the Melbourne team, and her experience across some of Victoria’s premier developments, will further underpin our investment in this state, with David Passarella, and the arrival last year of Michael Lanyon and his team aligning well with our existing substantial client base in Victoria.”
Lauren Croft
Lauren is a journalist at Lawyers Weekly and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Macleay College. Prior to joining Lawyers Weekly, she worked as a trade journalist for media and travel industry publications and Travel Weekly. Originally born in England, Lauren enjoys trying new bars and restaurants, attending music festivals and travelling. She is also a keen snowboarder and pre-pandemic, spent a season living in a French ski resort.
