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Our clients

We're driven by the needs and opportunities of our clients - it's something we've been practicing for over 200 years.

We are uniquely positioned to offer our clients a solution to doing business in both China and the rest of Asia, and for Chinese based organisations, a solution for doing business outside China.

Our client base includes Australasia's leading corporations, financial institutions and government entities. We couple high performance with intellectual rigour to provide legal solutions that are innovative and often ground breaking. This approach enables us to help our clients adapt to the increasingly challenging markets in which they operate - no matter where they are in the world - and ensures that they have a voice to help them shape the legal and regulatory landscape.

The power of together

Bold and audacious moves are what we're about. Working with our clients we have achieved some amazing outcomes:

  • the first ever “top hat” restructure and the most complex restructuring in Australian corporate history
  • the first ever issue of covered bonds to be priced and sold by an Australian bank
  • the mining industry's biggest ever deal - Xstrata's US$90 billion all share merger with Glencore
  • the preparation of the industry standard terms for the trading of carbon under the new carbon legislation - the only firm selected to do so
  • the first foreign invested real estate fund promoted by a PRC developer in PRC
  • the launch of the first ever money market fund, the first ever index fund and the first ever fund of funds in China
  • the first wholesale-only open-access network in Australia - the landmark $11bn NBN deal
  • the first retail bond offer under ASIC’s new rules
  • the world’s first fully-termed sale and purchase agreement for the supply of LNG from coal seam gas, and the first sale of LNG from coal seam gas into China, the fastest growing gas market in the world
  • the first sport infrastructure PPP
  • drafting legislation which formed the backbone of the Government Guarantee Scheme - essentially preventing Australia’s banking industry from failure.