Ruby Manukia
Senior Property & Commercial Lawyer
Ruby is a senior property and commercial lawyer at NZ Legal with international practice experience across New Zealand, the United States, and Tonga. She advises on residential and commercial conveyancing, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, dispute resolution, and the charitable and not-for-profit sector — with a particular focus on complex and cross-border transactions.
Ruby is a highly experienced property lawyer with an extensive international background. Her practice covers residential and commercial sale and purchase transactions, contract negotiation, compliance frameworks, and risk management — with a strong emphasis on getting complex and cross-border deals across the line cleanly.
She is regularly the lead lawyer on conveyancing matters where there is a wrinkle: defective titles, registered interests that need negotiating around, overseas-buyer compliance, or trust and ownership structures that need to work in multiple jurisdictions. Clients describe her as approachable and meticulous in equal measure — strong negotiation skills combined with attention to the kind of detail that matters when the contract is signed.
Ruby also advises in the charitable and not-for-profit space on governance, structures, and compliance. Her cross-jurisdictional experience — spanning NZ, three US states, and Tonga — makes her a natural point of contact for clients with international interests or who are themselves moving between markets.
