Commercial, industrial and government clients
Our experience includes public and private companies, multinationals, individuals and government instrumentalities and corporations. We can negotiate your best possible deal in:
- Building and construction
- Mining and resources
- Oil and gas
- Pipelines
- Transportation
- Land acquisition
- Alliance contracting
- Environmental permitting
- Body corporate
- Government regulation
Successful deals
NEGOTIATION SOLUTIONS Principal, Geoffrey Ewing, has been at the forefront of a range of deals involving complex negotiation. These include:
- Tarong Energy Corporation: option to purchase a 7 million tonne per annum coal mine from Rio Tinto
- Gladstone Power Station: 10 year coal supply agreements with various coal mines
- Gladstone Power Station: Renegotiation of long term rail arrangements with Queensland Rail to transport coal to the Power Station
- Rio Tinto: purchase of minority interests in the Peat coal seam gas interests at Wandoan
- Rio Tinto: sale of the Peat coal seam gas production field and associated tenements
- Minerals Council of Australia: agreement with aboriginal leaders giving rise to “Exploring for Common Ground”, a protocol for the mining industry in working on aboriginal land
- Bougainville Copper: negotiating the second largest annual heavy fuel oil contract then in existence
- Facilitating an intergovernmental agreement on the sharing of dedicated intellectual property
- Resolving an internal dispute in a large professional services firm.