John Tivey > White & Case > Melbourne, Australia > Lawyer Profile

The team at White & Case has grown further with several significant recent hires: Belinda Harvey joined from Norton Rose Fulbright; Stefanie Benson arrived from Allen & Overy LLP; and Caroline Sherrell moved across from the firm’s London office. Practice head John Tivey, who specialises in energy and natural resources transactions, co-heads the team from the Melbourne office with Nirangjan Nagarajah, whose client list includes a number of listed companies. In the Melbourne office, Christopher Flynn is called upon to advise domestic and international companies and governments on energy, resources and infrastructure projects.

Consistently advising on significant energy projects, White & Case‘s sizeable energy team have advised on novel domestic wind farm projects. Leading the project finance team, Brendan Quinn works alongside his Melbourne colleagues Andrew Clark, global head of energy and infrastructure, and head of mining, John Tivey, on an array of high-value transactions. Sydney’s Chris Flynn acts for numerous global blue-chip clients and governments on energy, resources and infrastructure transactions and projects, particularly in the upstream, LNG, renewable and non-renewable power sectors.

John Tivey, Christopher Flynn, Joel Rennie, and Jared Muller are the quartet leading the White & Case team, which operates across all areas of energy, oil and gas, and mining projects, and often appears in international projects. Brendan Quinn has a strong project finance practice, which lends itself to energy projects or matters with a financial aspect to them. Emblematic of the team more widely, Flynn advises Australian and multinational companies on transactions and projects in an array of sectors including upstream and LNG.