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The Board & Executive Network

Trust. Perspective. Leadership.

Today’s board members are risk owners, risk advisers and flagship leaders.

When major board decisions are required, each director plays a critical role in shaping the organisation’s direction — while meeting director duties and obligations, protecting personal and organisational interests, and strengthening governance, risk and compliance.

Our Board and Executive Network connects directors and senior executives with independent insight, trusted advisers and practical guidance to support confident decision making in complex, high stakes environments.

Request a tailored board briefing on your most critical governance and risk issues.

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Knowledge and expertise

Through the Board & Executive Network, we bring together market‑leading industry expertise and advisory services to help boards and senior executives navigate governance, risk, transactions and complex change with clarity and confidence.

  • Board and governance
  • Complex Liabilities, Insurance and Regulation
  • Education
  • Energy and resources
  • Financial Services
  • Health
  • Infrastructure
  • Real estate
  • Government
  • Corporate Governance
  • private equity
  • Risk and Regulatory
  • Competition
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Disputes
  • Workplace
  • Tax
Board and governance

Explore how our industry expertise supports boards and executives across Australia’s most complex sectors.

BOARD & GOVERNANCE

Complex Liabilities, Insurance and Regulation

Complex Liabilities, Insurance and Regulation brings together market‑leading expertise across complex torts and other civil liabilities, insurance advice and disputes, public law, regulatory responses and enforcement, supporting boards, senior executives, Government and insurers in matters where legal, commercial and reputational issues intersect. We advise in high-stakes matters shaping Australia’s legal and risk landscape.

LIABILITIES, INSURANCE & REGULATION

Education

We support our educational clients to innovate, deliver superior student experience and ultimately to improve education outcomes for their students.

EDUCATION

Energy and resources

The energy and resources sector is undergoing rapid change, shaped by ESG pressures, decarbonisation, renewables, new technologies and complex energy policy. We support policymakers and companies to navigate regulation and respond to ongoing disruption.

ENERGY & RESOURCES

Financial Services

The financial services industry is in constant transformation – adapting to regulatory changes, new competitors, technology, customer and community expectations. And the industry will keep evolving.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Health

Partnering with MinterEllison equips your organisation to lean into the future with confidence. We ensure that your strategies address the immediate needs of patients and market demands while adhering to the evolving regulatory landscape—all while fostering a culture of innovation and sustainable growth.

HEALTH

Infrastructure

We are a top‑tier national infrastructure advisor, bringing end‑to‑end experience and a 360‑degree perspective across major projects and transactions to help governments and the private sector deliver innovative, sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Real estate

Discover how our multidisciplinary real estate team helps clients navigate complex transactions, emerging asset classes and regulatory change to achieve strong commercial outcomes.

REAL ESTATE

Government

Partner with advisers who understand how government works and help shape policy, manage risk and deliver complex public sector projects with confidence.

GOVERNMENT

Corporate Governance

We offer confidential tailored and pragmatic advice across the full spectrum of regulatory, compliance and governance issues, and we specialise in preventive strategies to avert governance problems before they arise. 

BOARD AND GOVERNANCE

private equity

Australia's leading private equity firms value strong relationships with advisors who deliver superior commerciality, strategic advice and market intelligence to help them actively engage in market opportunities. With our unparalleled sector coverage we work with sponsors across the spectrum of deal sizes to achieve their strategic outcome. Discover how our private equity team helps drive value at every stage of the investment.

PRIVATE EQUITY

 

Risk and Regulatory

To help you thrive during complex situations, we've brought together one market-leading team of risk and legal practitioners, with experience on the client-side, coupled with first-hand knowledge of how to stay on the right side of regulators. 

RISK AND REGULATORY

Competition

We have deep understanding of Australian competition and consumer laws and sector-specific regulatory regimes and extensive industry expertise. We know how the ACCC operates and have relationships with key decision makers. 

COMPETITION CONSUMER & REGULATION

Mergers and Acquisitions

We work with our market leading tax, funds and financial services, workplace, finance, energy and resources, real estate and construction, and risk and regulatory practices to provide a seamless transaction experience.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Disputes

We're trusted by leading Australian and multinational corporations and government agencies for our tenacity, rigour and commerciality.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Workplace

We work with boards, executive leadership, people and culture leads, and business integrity and safety teams. Together with AskYourTeam, we offer practical steps and strategic guidance, informed by good data, to support a positive workplace culture. We provide the tools to measure and monitor progress over time. 

RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE CULTURES

Tax

As the largest tax practice in the Australian law firm landscape, we have the experience, expertise and reach to seamlessly offer both legal and non-legal solutions to your organisation.

TAX

Boardroom conversations

Boardroom Conversations brings Chairs and Non‑Executive Directors together to share candid insights from inside the boardroom - what’s challenging boards right now, how key decisions are made, and what effective governance looks like in practice. Short, focused videos designed to inform, challenge and spark thinking. Request a tailored Board briefing on your most critical governance and risk issues.

David Mann, Chair, NED and journalist 

We asked David some questions about being on a board and their advice to the next generation of board members. Here's what David had to say...

Resources

A curated set of practical checklists and resources to help Chairs and Non‑Executive Directors apply boardroom insights in practice, supporting stronger governance and more effective decision‑making.

Board and executive network

Legal risks in acquiring AI companies

Five critical legal issues boards must address when acquiring AI businesses.

Read the expert guide

Board and executive network

Governance for Directors

COMING SOON

Board and executive network

ASRA Financial Disclosure

COMING SOON

Board and executive network

Board Tax Governance

COMING SOON

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