Environment & Planning - Australia
What the team is known for
King & Wood Mallesons maintains a specialist team with a broad national footprint, coordinating multidisciplinary expertise to advise high-profile corporate and government clients on the environmental and planning aspects of large-scale transactions, infrastructure developments and other major projects. The legal team handles compliance and approval questions, land remediation, water supply and contamination issues, as well as representing clients in planning litigation cases. King & Wood Mallesons represents clients from a number of sectors including infrastructure real estate, energy and natural resources. Its key clients include Lendlease, Telstra and Aurizon.
Strengths
"The team has been great to work with, and they are all clearly very committed and skilled in their field."
"They are very good at strategic thinking, risk assessment and dealing with how to progress a matter."
Work highlights
King & Wood Mallesons advised Telstra on the national rollout of mobile base stations, including four separate planning appeals before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Notable practitioners
Mark Beaufoy is based in Melbourne and frequently assists clients with contaminated land matters, environment disputes and planning issues. He also has experience acting on land access, compulsory acquisition and planning appeals for large infrastructure and greenfield developments.
Michael Causer is based in Sydney and stands out for his work on compulsory acquisition mandates and environmental issues, which often concern contaminated land or other instances of pollution. "He is very competent in his field and always provides useful advice."
Sally Audeyev is a Perth-based practitioner who regularly advises clients on environment and planning issues associated with the development of major Western Australian energy and resources projects. She is noted for her specialist expertise and insights from the public sector and indigenous heritage spheres. "She has been very impressive in her reasoning, approach and flexibility of thought to deliver an outcome."
Matthew Austin acts for clients from a variety of sectors, including energy, resources and real estate, whom he advises on matters ranging from regulatory approvals to contaminated land issues. He is based in Brisbane.
