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
- Departments of Treasury and Finance & Energy and Mining (SA) Developing the commercial and legal framework that underpinned the State’s Strategic Gas Reserve and Strategic Diesel Reserve, supporting the State’s broader industrial transformation agenda.
- 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 in 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 owned by BHP) Developing a suite of mining asset related legal documentation, including EPC, D&C, equipment supply, farm-in arrangements, marketing rights, ore and concentrate sales and logistics contracts.
- A medical specialist group Advising in relation to the rollout of day surgery centres and capital investment by private equity.
- Sandfire Resources Limited Advising Sandfire’s corporate development and legal team in relation to a strategic earn-in arrangement for the Kalkaroo Copper-Gold Project.
- 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.
