With a highly experienced team, Hall & Wilcox attracts clients from across a host of industries, and – through its recent expansion into Western Australia – the department has a corporate offering across Australia’s major states. The group includes Oliver Jankowsky, who specialises in high-value cross-border deals, Ed Paton, head of the Southeast Asia desk, and Martin Ross, the sports and entertainment practice leader. Chris Brown and Jacqui Barrett deal with matters overseas, with Brown heading the UK desk and Barrett coordinating the US desk.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The thing that marks Hall & Wilcox out is that you can rely on them to give not just first-class legal advice, but to give it in a supremely practical commercial way.'
- 'Ed Paton - an excellent operator who will find a way to get the job done.'
- 'Chris Brown - brilliant at explaining Australian market practice to UK clients.'
- 'Oliver Jankowsky - heads H&W's unique offering to German investors into the Australian market.'
- 'Without doubt, the first choice for advising mid-cap and mid-market companies doing business in Australia.'
Key clients
- Dandy Premix Concrete Pty Ltd
- Aon Corporation Australia Limited
- HW Richardson Group (and its subsidiaries Petrogas & HWR Petroleum)
- Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc
- Caraniche
- WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen SE & Co. KG
- Maggie Beer Holdings Ltd
- Sydney Surgical Centre
- Putzmeister Group
- Varley Group Pty Ltd
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- DGIT Systems
- Metung Hot Springs
- Nostra Homes
- AMP
- My Prosperity Aust Pty Ltd
Work highlights
- Advised Nostra Property Group on its agreement to acquire Porter Davis’s multiple dwelling business, allowing up to 375 Porter Davis end customers to have their homes completed.
- Acted for Dandy Premix on the $85m sale of its business to national player Maas Group Holdings.
- Acted for Waldner in its acquisition of the assets and business of Melbourne-based Laboratory Systems Group (Labsystems).
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Oliver Jankowsky, Ed Paton, Chris Brown, Jacqui Barrett, Martin Ross