Gadens has strengthened its Planning and Environment offering in Brisbane, attracting a team of three into the Property and Construction Group. Gerard Timbs (Partner), Amelia Prokuda (Director), and Mitchell Osborne (Special Counsel) have joined in the last month from Holding Redlich.

Gerard, Amelia and Mitchell’s appointments follow the recent announcement that Paul Calvert (Partner) has returned to Gadens from Multiplex to advise on projects and construction.

Natasha Hood, joint lead of the Property and Construction Group said,

“The appointment of Gerard, Amelia and Mitchell is an excellent addition to our already thriving practice and will enable us to further expand the breadth and depth of planning and environment advice to our clients in an area that is so crucial to the success of projects and transactions in this space.”

Commenting on his decision to join Gadens, Gerard said,

“With significant infrastructure and development planned for South-East Queensland over the coming years, joining Gadens provides an immense opportunity to be part of a leading practice to work closely with top-tier developers, local and state government to provide advice on the plethora of planning and environment issues for their developments.”

Highly regarded in the industry having been recognised in both Best Lawyers and Doyle’s, Gerard brings over two decades of experience in both contentious and non-contentious planning and environment matters. His experience has included the delivery of major renewable energy, master-planned residential and commercial developments as well as local, state and federal government work.

Amelia brings town planning, development and environmental law experience to Gadens as well as experience in land acquisition and compensation matters, and appeals, applications and enforcement proceedings in the Planning and Environment Court, Land Court and Magistrates Court.

An experienced lawyer and qualified town planner Mitchell provides front-end and back-end advice to developers, landowners, local and state governments on planning, environmental, infrastructure and property matters.

John Nicolas, joint lead of the Property and Construction group said,

“These key appointments support the continued growth of our group into key areas where we expect strong demand from our clients. Gerard, Amelia and Mitchell are all highly regarded practitioners. Their capabilities and experience will strongly complement our offering, further enhancing our firm’s ‘fire-power’. We are extremely pleased they have joined Gadens and look forward to the valuable contributions they will make for our clients.”