Minter Ellison Rudd Watts says environment and resource management lawyer Bianca Tree will be joining the partnership from October 2016.

Ms Tree was admitted in January 2001. She will co-lead the firm's Environment team.

Minter Ellison Rudd Watts says Ms Tree advises several of New Zealand's largest property and infrastructure companies, and her recent work includes representing these companies in submissions on the Auckland Unitary Plan.