Our specialist team provides comprehensive legal support, guiding you through every stage of mining, resources and renewable ventures, from concept to completion. We work collaboratively as an extension of your team, helping drive the success of your venture. 

Our unique market offering lies in the close-knit way our team works on projects to keep you on the fast track. 

We have brought together a market leader in resources law with an expert on corporate and commercial matters in the mining, resources and renewables sector.  Our team leaders have a strong cross-over in practice areas and work as an integrated seamless team for our clients.  

We are experts in securing crucial land access, use and development approvals and navigating complex cultural heritage, native title and environmental approvals and offsets.  We work seamlessly with project teams advising on investments including strategic acquisitions, critical fundraising, joint ventures, farm-ins and key project agreements. 

We will help set up the right framework from the outset and clear the path for your project to move forward with confidence.

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Areas of expertise

• project formation, investments, acquisitions and disposals
• resource consents
• environmental approvals and offsets
• land access
• cultural heritage and native title
• offtake and supply agreements
• rehabilitation obligations
• regulatory and ASX listing rule compliance
• dispute resolution, including Land Court and National Native Title Tribunal

Our team’s experience

Leanne O’Neill has had a hand in shaping the major laws and regulations under which the Queensland resources sector operates, including land access, cultural heritage, carbon trading, offsets and resource consents.  Her prior work as a senior Government lawyer and for many major projects since, gives her unparalleled insight into the laws and how they are applied making her an invaluable contributor to our client’s projects.

Charles Schofield is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer who has acted on many mining and resource sector projects, acquisitions and disposals.  He has a broad range of experience in the industry in Australia and internationally and was most recently in-house with an international mining company. 

The experience of our team members includes:  

• acting for an ASX listed copper producer on cultural heritage agreements and environmental approvals
• acting on the sale and acquisition of joint venture interests for listed and unlisted companies in coal, gold and copper mining ventures
• advising the State of Queensland on legislative reform for the mining, petroleum and geothermal sectors
• acting for listed and unlisted mining companies in tenement acquisitions in Australia and internationally for coal, lithium, copper, gold, zinc and other critical and industrial minerals and metals
• acting on the delivery of major renewable energy developments in wind, solar, biofuel and geothermal
• acting for an ASX listed company on establishing a high purity alumina refinery
• negotiating environmental offset agreements, renewable energy initiatives, alternative land use, water use, environmental offsets and carbon sequestration arrangements
• advising mining companies on regulatory compliance, appeals and objections to grant of mining and petroleum tenements
• acting on cultural heritage and native title cases in the Land Court, National Native Title Tribunal and Federal Court including obtaining injunctions and declaratory relief