Construction, Infrastructure & Energy

Our Construction, Infrastructure & Energy team provides expert legal advice to participants across Australia’s construction, infrastructure and energy industry. We offer comprehensive support on construction contracts, procurement, project risk management and dispute resolution, with tailored advice and strategic thinking key to helping our clients navigate the full raft of issues that arise across the lifecycle of a project. 

Led by respected lawyers from other top tier firms, the team advises on both front-end and back-end matters across the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors, supporting clients from project structuring and procurement through to delivery, completion and dispute resolution. Our team brings deep experience in managing risk at every stage of a project, helping clients navigate complexity with confidence. 

Our expertise includes: 

• advising on pre and post-contract risk 
• drafting and negotiating construction contracts 
• ensuring good contract administration 
• construction disputes and dispute resolution/avoidance 
• alternative dispute resolution steps (contractual and non-contractual) 
• contract termination issues, and 
• Security of Payment advice and preparation and defence of claims. 

We act for principals/owners, head contractors, subcontractors, consultants and superintendents/project managers in all manner of ‘front end’, ‘middle end’ and ‘back end’ matters. 

Examples of projects we have worked on include: 

• Advising Energy Solutions on numerous utility scale solar farm and BESS projects throughout Australia, including negotiating EPC Contracts, O&M Contracts, parent company guarantees, financier tripartite deeds and other ancillary documents including down-stream key supply agreements. 
• Advising Everllence (previously MAN Energy Solutions) on several high-value equipment supply agreements for renewable energy and oil and gas projects in Australia.  
• Preparation of a full suite of design, construct and minor consultancy agreements for an industry superannuation fund and separately for a new tier 1 contractor to the Australian market. 
• Preparation of Design & Construct contracts for an EV charging infrastructure client. 
• Drafting and negotiating upstream and downstream contracts and ongoing contract administration and dispute resolution for the redevelopment of 499 Kent Street, Sydney. 
• Provision of ‘in-house’ legal services for a Brisbane and Perth-based project services client, relevant to LNG pipeline projects and offshore wind subcontract reviews. 
• Strategic advisor to Robin Khuda’s residential development company Ondas, concerning acquisition and construction of projects in Melbourne. 

We have a deep understanding of the regulatory environment and key issues impacting the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors across all Australian jurisdictions, and we work collaboratively with our clients to minimise risk and deliver commercially astute outcomes. 

Our team has been recognised in the following categories of The Best Law Firms in Australia:

• Construction/infrastructure law (2027).
• Project finance & development (2027).