Energy & Natural Resources

Herbert Smith Freehills has bolstered its Brisbane energy practice by luring a pair of partners from Allens and Johnson Winter Slattery.

Rio Tinto has put down $75 million for Zanthus Resources' interest in the Yarraloola Iron Ore project assets in Western Australia's Pilbara region as part of a joint venture with Mitsui & Co and Nippon Steel.

UK construction company Murphy is continuing its expansion with a 40 per cent stake in Sydney-based building company Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure.

Woodside is facing another legal challenge to its $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project, in what an environmental group called a "test case" for how NOPSEMA will assess greenhouse gas emissions from energy projects. 

Clive Palmer's Mineralogy can access the content of email inboxes of two senior executives at engineering firm CITIC in a feud over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. 

In the latest expansion of its energy, infrastructure and resources team, K&L Gates has lured the former co-head of Baker McKenzie's Australia energy group to join the firm.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised Transgrid on a project to connect the country's first renewable energy zone to NSW's energy grid.

Australian mining company Gold Road Resources has agreed to a $3.7 billion takeover by South African mining company Gold Fields.

Allens has advised Spark Renewables on a successful bid for access rights for its Dinawan Energy hub project.