Australia and New Zealand

Our international practice has experience in Australasia and our lawyers assist clients who require legal advice and representation in this region.

The majority of the work we undertake in Australasia corresponds with our principal activities throughout the rest of the world.  We represent public and private businesses engaged in day to day corporate activity, conducting banking and finance activities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial transactions, fund development, corporate finance, commercial contracts, cross border sales and tax advice.  We also have particular experience relating to investment in the region by Chinese and Japanese entities.

Capital Markets and Finance

McGuireWoods’ capital markets and finance team assists with advice on private equity, IPOs, debt and equity securities offerings, debt finance and project finance needs, drawing upon especially deep resources in Europe and the US. In particular, our teams in the US, London and Brussels offer insight and depth in financing and floating companies, acting for issuers, investment banks, syndicated and asset based lenders, nomads, brokers and sponsors, as well as market entrants.  In the capital markets, we focus on the NYSE and NASDAQ, as well as on the London Stock Exchange, AIM, PLUS, GXG, JSE, NSE, SGX and a variety of international and regional exchanges.

Oil, Gas, Mining and other Natural Resources

McGuireWoods brings deep legal background in the extractive industries.  Our mining practice includes activities related to base-metal, precious metals, rare earth minerals, coal, uranium, and construction aggregates industries. Our oil and gas team brings substantial upstream and downstream experience supporting majors and independent extractors, transportation, commodities and distribution industries in critically endowed regions. This, combined with our US mining capability, gives our team deep technical and sector expertise. 

Energy

McGuireWoods’ energy practice focuses on regulation, deregulation and restructuring of public and private utilities; on the development, acquisition, sale and financing of natural gas, power generation and other energy facilities; and on the marketing and trading of energy commodities. We represent governments, utilities, industrial energy consumers, in project development and finance, international energy development, environmental, land use, contract negotiation, taxation and privatization matters.

Dispute Resolution

McGuireWoods lawyers also advise on multinational litigation, international arbitration and dispute resolution.  Our dispute resolution practitioners are experienced in project managing litigation in multiple jurisdictions.

Corporate Social Responsibility and International Anticorruption

McGuireWoods brings core capability in navigating complexities of state of the art corporate compliance programmes setting paradigms for emerging standards of corporate social responsibility as evolving from the UN, US, EU, as well as international donors, trade association standards and NGOs.  We regularly advise on global fraud and corruption issues, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act 2010 (UKBA), UN, EU and US economic and trade sanction penalties.

Firm partner, Vivian Robinson QC, based in London, previously served as first general counsel at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) where he spearheaded development of the SFO’s enforcement policy under the UKBA and acted as primary liaison to the public and business communities.

Our Network

McGuireWoods lawyers include lawyers qualified in Australia, respectively, as well as in the U.S. We offer the experience and knowledge of the region as well as connections and contacts, together with the expertise and resources of an international law practice, to provide a seamless and cost-effective full range of legal services to our clients, where appropriate, with the assistance of local law firms, including fellow members of the LNI global legal network. Firmwide our lawyers, consultants and staff speak more than 40 languages.

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