Chi Chau

Chi is a front end construction partner with a proven track record and broad experience acting for different stakeholder interests across development projects of various size, scope and nature.

Chi assists her institutional, developer and contractor clients by providing advice on project documentation, risk allocation, procurement strategy, delivery and administration. 

Chi’s experience spans across residential, commercial and industrial development projects, mining and infrastructure construction projects and PPPs.

Chi’s understanding of complex legal and technical issues, coupled with her commercial and practical approach, ensures a sensible outcome is achieved for her clients in a time and cost effective manner.

Project Experience:

• Developers – Acting for numerous developers on large scale residential and mixed-use development , including $800M mixed-used development project at Macquarie Park, mixed-use development project in Chatswood comprising six different classes of building under the Building Code of Australia and 285 residential apartment project in North Ryde.
• Leading Asian agribusiness group – Advising multinational food company on multi-million kina construction project in Papua New Guinea for a large scale flour mill.
• Privately owned investment groups – Acting for numerous property investors including advising an international investment group on a project involving a potential 15,000 residential apartment development and advising a national property investment company on the acquisition of land for construction and subsequent leasing of commercial office buildings in Docklands Victoria and Sydney Olympic Park.
• FM service providers – Acting for facilities management company as part of the consortium for student accommodation, sports stadium and international convention centre.
• National construction company – Acting for the contractor on a redevelopment project for a national airline’s global headquarters, involving consolidation of three existing office buildings into a single campus environment and 50,000sqm of office fitout.
• Banking group – Performing construction contract due diligence for the financier on $2.6bn construction facility for commercial office towers at Barangaroo South.