Sonya Tanevski

Sonya Tanevski

Senior Legal Consultant, Reach based in Sydney

Sonya Tanevski

Sonya Tanevski is a senior associate in our Advanced Delivery Services team in Ashurst's award winning global NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance

Since starting her career in private practice, Sonya has spent a large part of her career as in house legal counsel for some of Australia's largest property and infrastructure owners. This means that Sonya has not only excellent technical ability but also an understanding of commercial objectives.

Prior to joining Ashurst Advance, Sonya gained experience with some of the following legal teams:

  • Sonya spent 5 years as in house legal counsel at Woolworths where she was involved in the retail leasing for supermarkets, liquor, Big W and Petrol. At Woolworths she also worked on various acquisitions for land banking and other purposes and general advice work;
  • she worked as a member of the Lendlease legal team for more than 2 years where she was involved in a number of urban regeneration developments acting for both Lendlease and on behalf of its mandate investor clients. The work included leasing of commercial and retail lots; and
  • time spent at the Department of Planning and Environment obtaining invaluable experience with public sector developments and title work.

More recently Sonya was a Senior Associate at a national law firm working on stream leasing projects in the real estate division. The stream leasing work was across various portfolios being:

  • commercial leasing (including the consolidation of office space);
  • retail leasing (acting for an institutional landlord on leases with international major tenants and cinema companies); and
  • industrial leasing.

Sonya has experience with large scale complex leasing and other property transactions and has a detailed understanding of the law in this area.