Melbourne based Aitken Partners has added to its strength in compulsory acquisitions with the recruitment of Peta Olive. Olive was formerly a partner with SBA Law where she was responsible for building and developing that firm's compulsory acquisition practice.

“As a law firm we have been active in compulsory acquisition for many years and that practice area for us has seen a spike in growth as our expertise has become more widely known,”  said Aitken Partners’ managing partner, Andrew Blogg.

“We have been representing land owners, businesses and tenants affected by projects such as the Regional Rail Link and the Harcourt Water Pipeline Modernisation Project but with other infrastructure projects like the East-West Tunnel coming on stream we realised we needed to look to ways of increasing our representation for affected persons.”

Aitken Partners has 10 partners and a staff of around 75.