Michael Blakiston

Practice Areas

Michael is a partner in our Energy, Resources and Infrastructure group. An internationally renowned leader in energy and resources law, Michael has a particular focus on advising companies dealing with developing countries and their people. More recently, Michael has taken these skills and applied them to advising industry on dealing with Indigenous organisations on the development of large-scale infrastructure and renewables projects on Country. Michael also advises an Indigenous corporation on its dealings with industry and government on a new form of agreement making which will facilitate a new way of developing projects on Country. Michael applies his 40 years of agreement making skills to these engagements in WA.

Michael has significant experience in joint ventures, development arrangements, project commercialisation, offtake project fundraisings either with debt or equity, construction and service contracts and asset purchases and sales, capital markets strategies and unregulated mergers and acquisitions.

Michael has served on the boards of numerous ASX-listed companies and is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of Develop Global Limited, the Chairman of the unlisted Precision Opportunities Fund Ltd, and a Non-Executive Director of Salubris Australia Limited, an unlisted company developing and commercialising clean energy and carbon credit opportunities primarily with indigenous involvement.