Nevett Ford Lawyers’ China Conveyancing team has extensive expertise in assisting Chinese clients buying and selling Australian property.
Our China Conveyancing team, comprising Peter Lumb, Practice group leader and Associate Director, Nathan Xu, Senior Lawyer, and Lily Cheng, Conveyancing Clerk, advise clients in English and/or Mandarin, Malay or Cantonese.
We deliver advice in a range of Conveyancing matters relating to residential sales and acquisitions, FIRB approval and advice, sub-sale/nomination purchaser advice, stamp duty and other foreigner impost advice, international wills dealing with Australian assets, powers of attorney, and business and migration relation advice.
Our firm has more than twenty years’ experience in acting for foreign clients. We have set the benchmark in providing advice to our foreign clients by providing our written and oral advice in dual languages.
We act for many purchasers buying in various off-the-plan developments across Melbourne. As such, we are familiar with various off-the-plan contracts of sale currently in the market place. This means we can provide efficient advice tailored to your needs.
We can provide written and oral advice in Mandarin, Malay and Cantonese.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
Stuart Wilson
Director
Andrew Lumb
Special Counsel
Peter Lumb
Special Counsel
Nathan Xu
Senior Associate and Head of Property
John Rados
Senior Associate
Sibelle Amad
Lawyer
Stephanie Chafer
Lawyer
Jean Xu
Senior Conveyancer
Lily Cheng
Senior Property Paralegal
Hilda Felices
Paralegal
Julia Zajac
Paralegal
Topics We’ve Written About
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Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) Requirements
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