Our lawyers have acted in complex disputes for energy and resource companies including:
advising a publicly listed Australian company involved in proceedings in the Solomon Islands High Court and Court of Appeal concerning mining and land rights;
acting for an Australian company, a Swedish company and a Nigerian company in an international arbitration in London concerning the interpretation of joint venture contracts for oil exploration;
acting for one of the joint venture parties in litigation arising from the Varanus Island gas explosion in the Supreme Court of Western Australia;
acting for a South African supplier to the mining industry in Australia in relation to the termination of their Australian agent and in proceedings for breach of agency agreement;
preparing detailed lay and expert evidence for proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia involving a dispute about possession of a port for the export of iron ore;
acting for a power station developer in a claim against an engineering and construction company;
acting for a power station in a price arbitration due to the introduction of the carbon tax;
conducting large scale commercial contractual disputes concerning the Redbank Power Station;
acting for the developer of a windfarm in Queensland in a claim of misuse of confidential information;
acting for the developer of a power station in relation to allegations of breach of fiduciary duty by a joint venture partner in relation to a windpower project in New South Wales;
acting for Babcock & Brown related entities in relation to a range of commercial disputes concerning power station developments in Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia;
providing advice to the developer of a new power station about review of a decision of the Office of Renewable Energy Regulator either by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal or by the Federal Court;
successfully obtaining a declaration that an electricity retailer had breached a power purchase and hedge agreement, which allowed a new power project (the “Redbank” project) to proceed; and
successfully conducting an arbitration in relation to the long term price of baseload power.
