Claudia Marcellos

Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Sydney, Australia

Claudia advises on direct and indirect real estate transactions, real estate joint ventures and platform arrangements, complex due diligence and large-scale developments.

Claudia has extensive advising private sector clients - both local and international - on high-value commercial deals and multi-jurisdictional mandates across key real asset classes.

Experience & capabilities

Selected matters

  • BWP Management Limited as responsible entity for the ASX Listed REIT BWP Trust (BWPM) on its script for scrip off-market takeover of all of the issued securities in ASX listed Newmark Property REIT, which resulted in BWPM indirectly acquiring a large-scale national retail portfolio*
  • Blackstone Group on various acquisitions and disposals of commercial and industrial real estate assets via various structures, including joint venture arrangements and unit sale agreements across Australia*
  • Brookfield on various direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of various commercial assets in NSW and WA*
  • Cabot on the acquisition of a multilevel logistics property in NSW*
  • Centuria on various direct and indirect acquisitions and triple-net leasebacks of major hydroponics glasshouse assets in VIC, SA and NSW *
  • ESR on the acquisition of a 20.8-hectare former clay pit from CSR Building Products, and disposal of various commercial assets in*
  • Keppel REIT on its acquisition of a 50% freehold interest in 255 George Street, Sydney from Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund including new Co-Owners Agreement, Property Management Agreement and car parking arrangements*
  • other real estate transactions, including establishing a tripartite joint venture for a large-scale staged development in NSW and acting for a confidential client on an indirect acquisition of a national retail portfolio by way of unit sale agreement *

*Experience prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Background

Claudia graduated from University of Technology Sydney in 2019 with a BBus / LLB (with Honours) and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and holds a NSW legal practising certificate.