Our vision is to become Australia's most client focused law firm. We are working to achieve this goal by listening to our clients, understanding their needs and understanding their business context. We can then work with our clients as a team towards business outcomes where our clients goals become our goals and we can commitment to the level of service delivery our clients demand.
We have established genuine relationships with some of the largest and most prestigious clients in the Asia Pacific region. Our client base includes over half of the top 100 Australian companies as well as over 250 Federal and State Government Departments, Agencies, and companies.
Our reputation for legal innovation and excellence and commercial, creative legal solutions has seen us appointed on some of the country's - and the region's - most significant deals and litigation, across a range of industry sectors.
For example, we have advised, or are currently advising:
- Origin Energy on its A$9.6 billion deal with US liquefied natural gas operator ConocoPhillips to jointly develop Origin's vast coal seam resources in Queensland, and concurrent defence of a hostile takeover bid by BG
- HBOS plc on the sale of BankWest and the St Andrew's wealth and insurance business to Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- A global pharmaceutical company on a long-running product liability class action, currently the largest product liability class action in the Asia-Pacific
- Centro's entire range of unlisted investment funds in relation to a range of issues arising out of debt funding issues announced by its listed headstock in December 2007 as a result of the credit crunch
- NSW Health on all aspects of the public tender for the A$700 million Royal North Shore Hospital redevelopment, the biggest health PPP project ever carried out in New South Wales
- The Victorian Department of Human Services on the A$850 million redevelopment of the Royal Children's Hospital in Victoria
- Sunshine Gas on its A$830 million merger with Queensland Gas Company
- Norilsk Nickel on its A$7.7 billion takeover of LionOre Mining International, the largest Australian resources deal of 2007
- Goldman Sachs in connection with the provision of a US$55 billion funding facility to BHP Billiton concerning its hostile A$157 billion takeover bid for Rio Tinto
- Leading gaming group Tattersall's on its historic A$2.17 billion Initial Public Offering and listing on the Australian Stock Exchange
- Brookfield Asset Management on its takeover of Multiplex Group to create Brookfield Multiplex, the largest property transaction of 2007
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC - Australia's corporate regulator) on its prosecution of current and former directors of James Hardie concerning the funding of asbestos liabilities
- The Queensland Government on the A$5 billion Airport Link PPP and publicly-funded Northern Busway and Airport Roundabout Upgrade Projects
- An international airline in two multi-respondent class actions brought by travel agents alleging misleading conduct and breach of contract regarding the calculation of commissions relating to fuel surcharges
- An international pharmaceutical company against the Commissioner of Taxation in the only transfer pricing dispute to be brought to final hearing in Australia in over 20 years
- A leading independent power generator and Australia's largest integrated energy company in arbitration proceedings which will set the price of gas under long-term, wholesale gas supply contracts in Australia
- Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) as project concessionaire on all matters associated with the construction of the US$16 billion Taiwan high-speed 'bullet train' service between Taipei and Kaohsiung, a unique and challenging project billed as the world's largest Build-Own-Transfer project of its time
- One of Australia's largest civil engineering services companies in a complex action that involves novel and newly-developed legal causes of action and claims for damages exceeding $15 million
- Macquarie Media Group on its successful acquisition of Southern Cross Broadcasting Corporation, the largest media sector transaction of 2007
- Media scion Lachlan Murdoch and his private vehicle Illyria and the Illyria / Consolidated Press Holdings consortium on the proposed A$3.31 billion acquisition of Consolidated Media Holdings
- Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority in relation to the landmark Barangaroo project, a NSW Government initiative to redevelop 22 hectares of state-owned land in what was formerly known as East Darling Harbour
