Nick is a Partner in HWL Ebsworth’s Corporate and Commercial team. Nick advises industry players in connection with the full spectrum of corporate actions and commercial transactions. Much of Nick’s work involves negotiating complex contractual arrangements, mergers & acquisitions and procurement advice.
Leveraging his strong technical background in engineering, Nick is valued by clients in the defence/advanced manufacturing, mining and finance sectors, providing strategic advice, acting as a legal project manager and assisting with cross border arrangements.
Nick has been named in Best Lawyers™ Australia for Commercial Law, Equity Capital Markets Law and Venture Capital Law and has published and presented papers on corporate, financial services and resource law matters.
Expertise
Experience
- Department of Defence Providing advice in relation to major materiel acquisition contracts with international defence primes including tender preparation, evaluation, negotiation and implementation.
- Clean Seas Seafood Advising as it chartered a new course it its acquisition via scheme of arrangement with Yumbah Aquaculture.
- National Flooring Equipment Inc Acting on its first strategic acquisition in Australia, bringing together international investment and strong Australian and United States expertise.
- VHM Limited Providing advice in relation to its Goschen rare earths elements project, including the negotiation of concentrate offtake (REMC, HMC, MREC) agreements.
- OZ Minerals (now BHP) Including the Board and the commercial team in relation to OZ’s arrangements with Vale S.A. and a suite of Brazilian assets including marketing rights, ore and concentrate sale agreements and logistics contracts.
- A medical specialist group Advising in relation to the rollout of day surgery centres and capital investment by private equity.
- MGA Whittles Group Providing extensive consultation, advisory, audit and review services to a leading independent insurance broker, underwriter and strata manager, across the full suite of the group’s service offerings.
- Santos Limited Providing advice in relation to its carbon capture and underground sequestration project in the Cooper Basin, including licensing and regulatory issues and the requisite commercial and procurement arrangements with relevant stakeholders.
- A Sovereign wealth fund Advising on its bid for the Australian based life sciences and biotech assets of a US company.
