The team at White & Case has grown further with several significant recent hires: Belinda Harvey joined from Norton Rose Fulbright; Stefanie Benson arrived from A&O Shearman; and Caroline Sherrell moved across from the firm's London office. Practice head John Tivey, who specialises in energy and natural resources transactions, co-heads the team from the Melbourne office with Nirangjan Nagarajah, whose client list includes a number of listed companies. In the Melbourne office, Christopher Flynn is called upon to advise domestic and international companies and governments on energy, resources and infrastructure projects.

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Key clients

  • MidOcean Energy Holdings Pty Ltd
  • Petronas
  • Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited
  • Vast Solar
  • First Sentier Investors
  • Metric Capital
  • Brookfield Infrastructure Group
  • Brookfield Asset Management
  • Palisade Investment Partners
  • Canadian Solar Inc.
  • Tenaga Nasional

Work highlights

  • Advised EIG/MidOcean Energy Holdings in relation to its proposed acquisition of Origin Energy as part of a consortium with Brookfield.
  • Advised EIG/MidOcean Energy on all aspects of its acquisition of Tokyo Gas’s interests in four Australian LNG projects for $2.15bn.
  • Advised Kumul Petroleum Holdings in relation to its proposed acquisition of an additional 5% interest in the PNG LNG Project from Santos Limited.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

John Tivey, Nirangjan Nagarajah, Christopher Flynn

Other key lawyers

Belinda Harvey, Stefanie Benson, Caroline Sherrell