Ruby Manukia

Ruby is a highly experienced property lawyer with an extensive international background. Her practice covers residential and commercial sale and purchase transactions, contract negotiation, compliance frameworks, and risk management - with a strong emphasis on getting complex and cross-border deals across the line cleanly.

She is regularly the lead lawyer on conveyancing matters where there is a wrinkle: defective titles, registered interests that need negotiating around, overseas-buyer compliance, or trust and ownership structures that need to work in multiple jurisdictions. Clients describe her as approachable and meticulous in equal measure - strong negotiation skills combined with attention to the kind of detail that matters when the contract is signed.

Ruby also advises in the charitable and not-for-profit space on governance, structures, and compliance. Her cross-jurisdictional experience - spanning NZ, three US states, and Tonga - makes her a natural point of contact for clients with international interests or who are themselves moving between markets.