I have advised leading public and private sector clients – including Rio Tinto, Energy Queensland, the Queensland Government and Stanwell Corporation – on significant and transformational power projects.

I take pride in providing my clients with astute and strategic advice, drawing on my deep understanding of the rules, regulations and realities that govern their sector. 

Career highlights

• Queensland Government – led the team advising the government on the proposed privatisation of the Queensland Network businesses, between 2014 and 2016
• Queensland Government – worked on the $24 billion merger of Energex and Ergon Energy, which was awarded Energy & Resources Deal of the Year at the 2017 Australasian Law Awards
• Recognised in several respected ranking publications, including Chambers Asia-Pacific (Senior Statesperson), and Best Lawyers (for Energy since 2009, and for Natural Resources and Oil & Gas since 2012)
• Selected as Queensland’s leading energy lawyer in 2013 by Best Lawyers
• Appointed as convenor of the inaugural electricity law course in the Master of Laws program at the University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law
• Serves as general editor of LexisNexis’s Australian Energy and Resources Law Bulletin 

• Essential System Services scheduling and ahead mechanisms
  

  Immediate, near term and longer term reforms to improve power system security and accommodate batteries and other emerging new technologies.