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Samuel Brown

Samuel Brown is a partner in the firm's Real Estate practice. He focuses on real estate and infrastructure transactions, developments and investment funds. Sam’s experience includes acquisitions and disposals of development and built form assets, project and development agreements, title structuring and subdivisions, transaction and investment structuring, management agreements and complex leasing.

Samuel is a commercially minded lawyer who believes in taking the initiative, being responsive and adopting an astute, solutions based approach. He communicates in a clear and straightforward manner to attain successful outcomes. He is ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020 with clients noting his "commerciality and responsiveness" and in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 clients described him as "an exceptionally talented real estate transactions lawyer.“ Samuel was also awarded Real Estate Partner of the Year, at the 2020 Lawyers Weekly Partner awards.

Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Samuel led the finance and commercial property team at a boutique firm in Sydney.

  • Recognised by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Real Estate in Australia, 2019-2024
  • Recognised by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Next Generation Partner for Real Estate in Australia, 2021-2024
  • Listed by Best Lawyers in Australia™ 
    • Leasing Law, 2023-2025
    • Real Property Law, 2023-2025
  • Listed by Doyle's Guide as a recommended Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyer - New South Wales, 2023
  • Finalist in the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards for Real Estate, 2021-2023
  • Recognised by Australasian Law as an Excellence Awardee, 2021 
  • Recognised by Lawyers Weekly as the winner of the Partner of the Year Award for Real Estate, 2020

Samuel is a member of the organizing committee for the annual LAWSKI conference Thredbo, NSW, a not-for-profit event for the profession that also seeks to raise funds for charitable purposes.

In 2013, Samuel travelled to Kenya to co-present with the Kenyan Capital Markets Authority and a major Kenyan law firm to investment banks and developers on REIT regulations that were proposed for Kenya, modelled on Australian law.

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  • Mentioned, "K&L Gates guides Elka Capital through residential land lease joint venture", The Australasian Lawyer, 9 October 2024
  • Quoted, "The Evergrande collapse and its potential impacts on the Australian market", Lawyers Weekly, 20 February 2024
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