AXE Co

Property advisory

Property acquisition.
Precisely executed.

We advise business owners and investors across property acquisition, development and strategic partnerships, bringing corporate finance, legal and property expertise to every decision.

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01 / Why Axe Co

We come from inside the transaction.

Axe Co was founded by professionals who built their careers inside a global investment bank's property group, at a top-tier law firm, and across major residential and commercial development projects. We understand how these transactions are structured, assessed and negotiated, from every angle.

Our clients are business owners securing their premises and investors building commercial and residential portfolios. They choose Axe Co for a team that understands how opportunities are structured, assessed and executed, from the initial brief through to completion.

Institutional Capability
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Structural clarity / commercial alignment
50+Years combined experience
$50MMaximum deal size focus
100%Client-side representation
$9B+Transaction experience

02 / The founding team

Three perspectives. One mandate.

Nadine Kahlon, Jordan Zubani and Adam Flohm
AXE Co / Founding team

Founding partner

Jordan Zubani

Commercial strategy & acquisitions

Jordan brings 18 years of corporate and institutional banking experience to Axe Co, including 11 years at Macquarie as a Director in the Corporate Property Group. Across his career, he has originated and structured, or led teams underwriting, more than $6 billion of commercial property finance. He brings commercial strategy, capital structuring and transaction advisory judgement to each mandate, and applies a lender's discipline to how capital, asset fundamentals and execution risk converge through a transaction. His experience spans origination, structuring and underwriting, including credit recommendation, risk assessment, borrower engagement and senior stakeholder management.

Founding partner

Nadine Kahlon

Transaction & legal intelligence

Nadine brings more than 15 years of institutional legal and property finance experience to Axe Co. Her career includes more than six years at Allens across Real Estate and Banking & Finance, followed by a decade at Macquarie, where she was a director and Head of Legal for Commercial Property Finance. Having advised on more than $3 billion of complex property lending transactions, Nadine brings a strong risk focus and sharp transaction judgement. Her experience includes legal and transaction-risk leadership across documentation, security, priority, conditions precedent, amendments, enforcement pathways and governance escalation.

Founding partner

Adam Flohm

Asset diligence, development & execution

Adam brings more than 25 years across property acquisition, development and delivery. He has led projects up to A$120m, including multi-site aggregation, rezoning and planning approvals for private investor syndicates. His experience spans acquisition negotiation, site aggregation, feasibility, planning strategy, consultant coordination, delivery oversight and sales coordination across residential, retail and commercial projects. This direct operating experience brings a practical perspective to testing asset value, development risk and viable execution pathways.

03 / Services

Property strategy across acquisition, development, aligned capital and collective owner-side decisions.

01

Axe Acquisitions

Commercial | Residential

We identify, assess and secure property across commercial and residential markets, with a disciplined mandate, a clear view of value, risk and execution, and negotiation grounded in the client's objectives.

02

Axe Developments

Development advisory

We bring a practical development lens to site selection, feasibility and execution, leveraging 25 years of experience across major residential and commercial development projects to test what a property can become.

03

Axe Partners

Aligned capital

Where an acquisition calls for an aligned partner, we may make a relevant introduction on a case-by-case basis. We bring the property case, mandate and transaction pathway into focus; any partnership is considered directly by the parties with appropriate specialist advice.

04

Axe Collective

Vendor Advocacy

For neighbouring landowners, strata schemes and owners corporations considering a property amalgamation, a coordinated collective sale or responding to an unsolicited approach, Axe Collective provides a structured, professional owner-side process before anyone is asked to make a binding decision.

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04 / The acquisition brief

Every mandate begins with the risk.

Before an asset is selected, the mandate is defined. The acquisition brief brings together the operational need, commercial logic, financing context, property fundamentals and transaction strategy required to make an informed decision.

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Internal / acquisition brief

Protocol / 01–04

Acquisition protocol.

One measured process, from a clear brief to disciplined execution.

  1. 01

    Define

    Establish the mandate, capital range, operating requirements and non-negotiables.

  2. 02

    Source

    Identify suitable listed, pre-market and off-market opportunities.

  3. 03

    Assess

    Test the asset, lease, capital structure, compliance and downside, working with the client’s advisers where required.

  4. 04

    Execute

    Negotiate, coordinate advice and manage the transaction to completion.

05 / Conversations

Two ways to start a conversation.

A confidential route for clients, and a discreet introduction path for professional partners. Both begin with the same clear view of fit, mandate and risk.

For clients / 01

Ready to acquire? Let's talk.

For business owners and investors with a clear property requirement, every mandate starts with a private, direct conversation.

For professional partners / 02

Referral network.

For accountants, lawyers, finance brokers, wealth advisers and property professionals who want a trusted property advisor for a client.

  1. 01

    Introduction. Make an informal introduction when there is a genuine property requirement.

  2. 02

    Fit. We clarify the brief and establish whether there is a fit.

  3. 03

    Mandate. We confirm the core requirements and any non-negotiables.

  4. 04

    Handover. We manage the property work directly and communicate clearly throughout.

An informal conversation is the starting point. If there is a fit, we take it from there.