Thomson Geer

Chair: Loretta Reynolds

Chief Executive Partner: Adrian Tembel

Languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bahasa, Bosnian, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Malaysian, Mandarin, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese

Firm Overview

Thomson Geer is a major Australian corporate law firm. The firm has more than 800 people including more than 155 partners operating out of offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. The firm’s origins date back to 1885.

Website: www.tglaw.com.au

Affiliate firms:

TG Public Affairs –Public policy advisory firm

TG Legal + Technology –Providing legal services to clients with high volume legal needs – Workplace and insurance services, Resolution, Recoveries and Disputes; Stream leasing; Retirement village rollovers

TG Mining Services –Providing specialist tenement management services to Australian and international miners and explorers

Main Areas of Practice

• Advertising & Marketing
• Agribusiness
• Banking & Finance
• Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
• Capital Markets
• Class Actions
• Competition & Regulation
• Construction & Projects
• Corporate & Advisory
• Education
• Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety
• Energy & Resources
• Environment & Planning
• Franchising
• Funds Management & Financial Services
• Gaming & Leisure
• Government
• Health, Aged Care, Disability & Retirement Living
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Media, Broadcasting & Entertainment
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Property
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Sports Law
• Superannuation & Wealth Management
• Tax
• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Transport & Logistics
• Wills and Estates

Corporate/M&A

30+ partners, 62 fee earners

• Advising Kirin Holdings Company, Limited on its A$1.8 billion acquisition of Australian-listed healthcare company Blackmores Ltd via a scheme of arrangement.
• Advising leading marine and subsea services company MMA Offshore on its acquisition by Cyan Renewables by way of scheme of arrangement for A$1.1 billion. The deal is reportedly the largest takeover deal in the wind power segment in the Asia-Pacific region for 2024.
• Advising ASX-listed Genesis Minerals Ltd on its A$628 million acquisition of the Gwalia gold mine from St Barbara.
• Advising Western Australia-based gold miner Westgold Resources on its A$1.2 billion merger with Canadian-listed Karora Resources and dual-listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange to create a top five Australian gold producer.
• Advising Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation to advise it on the establishment of a renewable energy project partnership worth more than A$1 billion.

Contacts: Scott Gibson - Sanushka Seomangal - David Schiavello

Tel: +61 8 9404 9152 +61 2 8248 3443 +61 3 8080 3704

Emails:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Property & Development (including Construction, Infrastructure & Environment):

30+ partners, 68 fee earners

• Advising Acciona on a 50-50 joint venture with CPB Contractors (ACACPB JV) who have been engaged by Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to deliver the Inland Rail Southern Civil Works Program valued at more than $1.2 billion.
• Advising Gamuda on the A$2.16 billion Western Tunnelling Package for Sydney Metro West.
• Advising Infrastructure NSW on development of a new Sydney Fish Market worth A$650 million - A$750 million.
• Advising ASX-listed Dexus on A$186 million acquisition of McPhee Logistics Portfolio.
• Advising ASX-listed aged care provider Estia Health on a deal to acquire a portfolio of aged care homes and development sites worth more than A$100 million from Premier Health Care.

Contacts: Franco Aversa - Simon Ralton - Andrew Kelly,

Tel: +61 2 8248 3469 +61 2 8248 3426 +61 7 3338 7550

Email:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Media:

3 Partners, 5 fee earners

• Successfully defending Network Ten in a defamation case brought by former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann, with a judge finding, on the balance of probabilities, that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in a ministerial office in Parliament House. Lehrmann is appealing the decision.
• Acting for The Australian in successfully striking out defamation claim in landmark "serious harm" ruling, in case brought by alleged murderer John Peros over the Shandee's Story podcast, which analysed the murder of Shandee Blackburn at the hands of her ex-boyfriend Peros.
• Acting for 36 major media organisations and journalists charged with contempt of court when Catholic Church Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of child sex offences (since overturned on appeal).
• Acting for an Australian newspaper in a five year campaign to overturn suppression orders in the “Lawyer X” scandal in High Court and in the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants.
• Advising on production of Australia’s most downloaded podcast “The Teacher’s Pet” about a man accused of murdering his wife more than 30 years ago.

Contacts: Justin Quill - John-Paul Cashen - Marlia Saunders

Tel: +61 3 8080 3748 +61 3 8080 3753 +61 2 8248 5836

Emails:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:

30+ partners, 92 fee earners

• Advising the then Prime Minister of Australia and other senior Liberal Party leaders in relation to legal challenges to their choices of candidates in several seats in New South Wales for the May 21, 2022, Federal Election.
• Acting for the Kingdom of Spain in seeking to oppose the recognition and enforcement of a (purported) international arbitral award of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) issued to Dutch investors, NextEra Energy Global Holdings BV and NextEra Energy Spain Holdings BV.
• Successfully acting for Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd in its appeal to the High Court of Australia over allegations fuel efficiency labels affixed to its popular Triton utility vehicle were misleading and breached consumer laws.
• Advising Mitsubishi in a class action relating to allegedly misleading fuel consumption claims for its popular Triton ute.
• Acting for gaming company Konami in a precedent-setting patent dispute with fellow gaming company Aristocrat. Aristocrat sued Konami in the Federal Court of Australia claiming Konami had infringed five patents relating to electronic gaming machines.

Contacts: Sylvia Fernandez - Bronwyn Lincoln - Scott Castledine

Tel: +61 2 8248 3499 +61 3 8080 3565 +61 2 8248 3413

Emails:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Technology & Telecommunications:

11 partners, 22 fee earners

• Advising Hyland Software on new contractual arrangements for IT products and services provided to icare, the New South Wales government's workplace injury insurance corporation.
• Advising City of Sydney on “one of the largest advertising contracts in Australian history”.
• Advising Rohde & Schwarz Australia on the awarding of a major contract to supply the integrated communications systems for Australia’s new A$39 billion Hunter class frigates being built by BAE Systems Maritime Australia.
• Advising mining technology company Chrysos Corporation on all aspects of its key commercial arrangements with operators of mines and mineral testing facilities and the suppliers of its core systems. Recently we also advised Chrysos in connection with its initial public offering which raised A$183.5 million, Australia's largest IPO as at May 2022.

Contact: Mark Feetham - Demetrios Christou

Tel: +61 2 8248 5847 +61 2 8248 3428

Email:[email protected], [email protected]

Restructuring & Insolvency:

20+ partners, 40 fee earners

• Advising the provisional liquidators of 17 companies associated with the IPO Wealth Fund which is owed approx $80 million by one of the companies in the group.
• Advising Evolution Traffic Management directors on Australia's insolvency laws and assisting with pre-administration planning and the preparation and presentation of a restructuring proposal.

Contact: Peter Harrison - Scott Guthrie - Ben Thrift

Tel: +61 2 9225 2533, +61 7 3338 7516, +61 3 8080 3725

Email:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]