Environment
Australia
12 February 2025
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Clayton Utz houses one of Australia’s leading environment and planning practices, renowned for handling the full range of complex and high-profile projects. The team also has extensive litigation expertise and is a key point of contact for emerging environmental and climate regulatory issues. Practice leader Claire Smith specialises in energy transition and climate litigation. Brendan Bateman is highly experienced in the assessment, approval, and delivery of major infrastructure projects. Alongside her work in environmental litigation, Karen Trainor often advises on energy transition projects. John Clayton routinely acts for government bodies and private developers, while Alison Packham has deep knowledge of the impact of environmental and planning laws on major projects.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Claire Smith and her team can provide to clients specialist advice in the contaminated land and environmental planning spaces that is a relatively unique offering in the market..
‘I love the collaboration opportunities with the planning team. We have a number of geographically adjacent matters with similar characters across appeals and the combination of understanding the bigger picture and the interrelating characteristics of matters is important.'
Key clients
- PEXA
- Novocastrian Wind
Work highlights
Advising Property Exchange concerning the launch of a climate/hazard risk report.
Advising on all environmental and planning aspects of the Inland Rail Program.