Nicola is an environmental and planning lawyer based in Sydney.

Nicola's practice covers all areas of environmental law, including waste, pollution, contaminated land, planning law and compulsory acquisition. Nicola's extensive experience includes environment and planning advisory work, litigation, transactional matters and regulatory/compliance work.

In addition, Nicola has extensive experience acting for government agencies and private clients in litigation in the Land and Environment Court of NSW, Supreme Court of NSW, NSW Court of Appeal, and special leave applications to the High Court of Australia. In particular, Nicola is currently acting for RMS in the largest compulsory acquisition matter in NSW's history, relating to the acquisition of the Alexandria Landfill and claims in excess of A$400m.