As an energy market specialist, clients call on me to navigate the complex intersection between energy regulatory frameworks and the contracts that span an energy project's lifecycle from development and construction through to operation and financing I am responsive, commercial and outcomes-focused.

Due to my deep knowledge of the industry, I work with the firm's corporate and project lawyers to co-ordinate and deliver practical, industry-specific, client-focused advice that helps clients deliver market-leading energy and gas projects while mitigating risk. I have previously held senior legal positions in-house at Jemena, Wärtsilä and the Australian Energy Market Commission, giving me first-hand exposure to, and understanding of, the commercial, technical and operational drivers behind successful, market-leading project delivery.

Career highlights

• Electricity network projects: Advising on major transmission and distribution projects across all Australian jurisdictions, including Western Australia and the Northern Territory, covering economic regulation, land acquisition rights and regulatory compliance for market-leading network infrastructure.
• Gas projects and transactions: Advising on the contractual and regulatory arrangements underpinning the development and operation of major gas projects across all Australian gas markets, including pipelines, processing and production facilities, and renewable gas facilities.
• NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap: Advising the Infrastructure Planner for the Far West Project, Roadmap entities and prospective network operators and developers on regulatory and contractual arrangements.
• IPART: Advising on electricity network licensing functions and water infrastructure regulation, and a former member of the Energy Network Regulation Committee.
• Renewable energy and battery storage: Advising developers and investors on project lifecycle regulatory and commercial arrangements for renewable energy projects, including projects under construction — from national and State-based frameworks through to project development agreements, connection contracts, PPAs and EPC and O&M agreements relating to generation, storage and network infrastructure.
• Energy regulatory reforms: Advised on many of the major gas and electricity regulatory reforms over the last 20 years for Commonwealth and State governments, including the National Energy Customer Framework, electricity and gas network pricing reviews, the Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap, the transition of gas functions to AEMO, and the establishment of the secondary gas capacity trading market.