UGL $320m Railcar Contract
UGL and RailCorp negotiated this major rail procurement contract, based on the existing OSCar and Hunter rail contracts, but with substantially different risk allocations and payment mechanisms. Mallesons achieved a completed and documented deal for this major infrastructure.
ConnectEast and East Link Project
Advisor to ConnectEast, which is the entity that owns the East Link (Victoria’s largest private sector road) on two arbitrations, one involving the Source Code for the tolling system and the other involving the entitlement of the Contractor to be paid a Semi Final Progress Claim.
OSCar Hunter disputes
This was a large scale infrastructure dispute with complex technical delay and disruption issues. It was channelled into an expensive, repetitious and unproductive Contract dispute resolution process. Through a combination of litigation and negotiation, Mallesons set the scene for, and then prepared, an alternative expedited arbitration model, which the parties embraced.
NSW RailCorp Rolling Stock PPP
Advisor to the lenders on the financing, design, construction and maintenance of the A$3.6 billion NSW RailCorp Rolling Stock PPP. The project involves design, construction and maintenance of a total of 626 passenger rail carriages on Sydney’s CityRail network and the design and construction of a major new rail maintenance facility. It is the largest rolling stock acquisition in the country’s history.
Toll roads
We have acted for the successful consortia in five of the eight Australian toll roads over the last 14 years. These include acting for:
- Rivercity Motorway Limited on the Brisbane North South Bypass Tunnel
- ConnectEast Limited on Melbourne’s Mitcham Frankston Motorway
- Westlink Motorway Limited on the M7 Motorway in Sydney
- Airport Motorway on the Eastern Distributor (M1) Sydney
- Hills Motorway Limited on the M2 Motorway in Sydney.
We also act for the lenders to the Cross City Tunnel, Sydney and for the main equity investor in the Lane Cove Tunnel, Sydney.