DLA Piper is the Australian arm of the international firm of the same name. The firm has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.
DLA Piper is a UK and US-based international law firm with 4200 lawyers across 90 offices in over 40 countries in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Australasia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm provides a full spectrum of legal services and is best known for its project development teamfocused on mining and transport.
Key clients
Key clients of the firm include Asian Development Bank, AVZ Minerals, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Downer EDI, Engie Energie Services, Kalium Lakes, Leichhardt Industrials, Highview Power, EV Metals, Link Group, Life360, Manulife, and POSCO.
Research period review:
32nd edition (2022/2023)
The firm has been active in capital markets, M&A, private equity, project development, project finance, and restructuring work during the research cycle.
The firm was particularly active in the project development area with a focus on transport, mining, and energy. The client role ranges from sponsors, stakeholders, and EPC contractors to project developers and project companies.
In the capital markets, the firm advised on IPOs, share sales, capital raising, placements, and convertible bond notes transactions where its clients were mainly issuers and shareholders.
In the M&A area, the firm was mostly active in acquisitions, share sales, joint ventures, and divestments mainly from the buy side where deals were in technology and telecommunications, energy and natural resources, healthcare, infrastructure, education, and real estate.
The firm added new partner James Nicholls from Allen & Overy to its corporate and M&A team and strengthened its project development team by hiring special counsel Michael Robbins from Dorsey & Whitney’s Hong Kong office.
Deal highlights:
32nd edition (2022/2023)
PEXA ASX IPO
Sandvik A$950 million acquisition of Deswik Group
Bentley Systems NZ$1.46 billion acquisition of Seequent Holdings
Strike Energy proposed development of AU$3 billion 1.4mtpa urea fertiliser production facility
EV Metals Saudi Arabia battery mineral processing plants
The North East Link PPP
