Kent Grey

|Partner

Kent has a strong commitment to the principles of governance, compliance, management and administration in commerce, industry and public affairs. He works with organisations to achieve best practice corporate governance including compliance with the ASX corporate governance principles. Kent is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators and Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia (FCIS).

Kent has extensive experience in advising on mining infrastructure projects, mine development programs, EPC and EPCM agreements in the mining sector, and project delivery in the mining, resources and infrastructure sectors. He also has particular experience in the rail transport industry, in which he has advised extensively on rail access, above- and below-rail operations, rail safety, multi-modal transportation. Kent has acted for rail network owners/operators as well as large scale freight haulage operations.

Kent has advised on various capital raising s (IPOs and rights issues) and restructures for public companies, including preparation of prospectuses, liaising with key regulators, brokers and underwriters, and conducting and documenting due diligence and verification enquiries, prepared solicitor's reports on tenement/native title issues (in mining sector capital raisings).

With a strong understanding of the relevant Federal and State-based regulation and licensing, Kent advises mining and petroleum clients on all aspects of exploration, drilling and production operations. He advises on joint ventures, farm-ins/farm-outs, unitisations, coordination arrangements and relationship management. He also advises on operations management and project delivery, offtakes, export, marketing and product commercialisation arrangements.

Advising mining and petroleum clients, Kent has long-standing experience on native title issues, being one of the first lawyers in a wider legal team to examine the scope of the initial native title court cases (including the High Court's landmark Mabo decision in 1992) and the resulting native title laws. He has particular experience with the unique land access and native title legislation for mineral exploration and development in Part 9B of the SA Mining Act 1971. Kent's experience encompases work area clearance agreements, native title agreements for exploration and native title mining agreements in the SA minerals and petroleum sectors.

Kent acts for uranium producers and explorers and advises on the development of uranium production operations, the safe transportation and storage of uranium ore, the sale and joint venturing of production and exploration assets. Kent has particular expertise in the regulation of the uranium industry at both a Federal and State level. Based on his extensive industry experience, Kent is regularly sought after to provide external comment on developing issues in the uranium sector.