We advise business owners and investors across property acquisition, development and co-investment, bringing corporate finance, legal and property expertise to every decision.
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.
Structural clarity / commercial alignment
Combined experience
50+Years combined experience
Deal size focus
$50MMaximum deal size focus
Representation
100%Client-side representation
Transaction experience
$9B+Transaction experience
02 / The founding team
Three perspectives. One mandate.
01 / 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.
02 / Founding partner
Nadine Kahlon
Transaction & legal intelligence
Nadine brings more than 16 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. She has advised on more than $3 billion of complex property lending transactions, bringing a legal lens to the terms, protections and judgement calls that shape a transaction well before completion.
03 / Founding partner
Adam Flohm
Property & execution
Adam brings more than 20 years of property acquisition and transaction experience to Axe Co. He combines deal formation with a practical understanding of planning, helping identify the potential for development uplift before a mandate is executed. Adam has developed his own Eastern Suburbs homes and townhouses, and delivered end-to-end projects for investor syndicates and project consortiums across multi-storey residential, luxury apartments, retail and commercial buildings. His experience allows him to assess not only what an asset is today, but the practical route to what it can become.
03 / Services
Property strategy across acquisition, development and investment.
01
Axe Acquisition
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 Adam's experience across major residential and commercial development projects to test what a property can become.
03
Axe Invest
Syndication | Co-investment
We create access to considered syndication and co-investment opportunities for investors seeking aligned capital, institutional transaction discipline and a clear view of risk.
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.
Internal / acquisition brief
Protocol / 01–04
Acquisition protocol.
One measured process, from a clear brief to disciplined execution.
01
Define
Establish the mandate, capital range, operating requirements and non-negotiables.
02
Source
Identify suitable listed, pre-market and off-market opportunities.
03
Assess
Test the asset, lease, capital structure, compliance and downside.
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.
01
Introduction. Make an informal introduction when there is a genuine property requirement.
02
Fit. We clarify the brief and establish whether there is a fit.
03
Mandate. We confirm the core requirements and any non-negotiables.
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.
