Alex James

Clayton Utz
Special Counsel Brisbane

Thank you for your advice – it is extremely comprehensive. You have done an excellent job on this. Thank you for all of your detailed work – it is greatly appreciated.

– Client quote

Overview

Alex is an experienced advisor to government departments, regulators and corporate entities, on commercial, procurement, regulatory, governance, and compliance matters. Alex has special expertise in procurement, infrastructure projects and the energy sector.

Notable Work
  • Acting for Brisbane City Council in relation to its hosting of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

  • Advising Toowoomba Regional Council in relation to its New Energy Generation project including regulatory, legal, commercial and tender process advice regarding the Pumped Hydro Energy Storage project.

  • Advised the Department of Transport and Main Roads through the tender, negotiation, award and implementation its new generation regional aviation and long distance coach service contracts.

  • Acted for Port of Townsville Limited in relation to the resolution of a significant port access dispute.

  • Advised Powerlink Queensland in relation to its contractual response and management of a force majeure event across its business.

  • Advised a Queensland Government department on its procurement of internal audit services including addressing confidentiality and ethics requirements.

  • Advised Powerlink Queensland on the funding arrangements for the Copper String Project.

  • Advised City of Gold Coast in relation to a restructure and consolidation of its controlled and funded entities.

  • Acted for a local government in a substantial dispute regarding a water supply agreement, including obtaining a stay of proceedings, negotiation of new infrastructure and supply arrangements, and settlement of the dispute.

  • Advising a Queensland Government department on structuring options, business case and process for establishing a government funded service delivery special purpose vehicle.

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