Chambers Review
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Energy & Natural Resources - Australia
What the Team is Known For
MinterEllison's respected team has an enviable national and regional footprint and is particularly noted for its representation of global mining houses, investors, leading regional oil and gas players and electricity companies, plus government agencies at both State and Commonwealth levels. The firm assists clients on both transactional and operational mandates, covering the full life cycles of their projects from initial exploration and financing, through operation, regulation and contentious issues, to disposal. The practice is able to leverage expertise from within the firm's wider resources to provide a holistic service covering such areas as disputes, environmental concerns and native title issues.
Strengths
The team is excellent, provides commercially focused legal advice and understands the issues impacting our business and the industry. Everyone I have dealt with has been excellent.
MinterEllison is able to simply distil legal issues and proactively come up with solutions to issues.
MinterEllison delivers a very consistent product; all is aligned. It is very coordinated, especially across different project teams.
Work Highlights
MinterEllison advised the State of Queensland to acquire the ‘CopperString’ project from its founders. Upon acquisition, the State nominated Powerlink to be the entity to develop the project, and MinterEllison has continued to act for Powerlink since that time.
Notable practitioners
Clay Wohling has very strong energy expertise.
Clay is an outstanding person and practitioner.
Joel Reid is based in Brisbane and frequently provides assistance to State and Commonwealth governments, as well as government-owned companies, on matters related to electricity project investment and development, including renewable energy transition projects. Additionally, he acts for large mining companies on issues concerning the transition to renewable energy.