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As a qualified engineer, Chew has worked on a number of major infrastructure projects over his 15 years spent as a lawyer, including acting for successful bidders for the Peninsula Link project, the Mitcham-Frankston Freeway, the North-South By-pass Tunnel, the Western Sydney Orbital toll-road project, the Chatswood Transport Interchange, the Sunbury Rail Electrification Alliance Project, and the supply of the Outer Suburban Trains to RailCorp. He has also advised on the US$5bn Saudi Landbridge project, on documentation for the Sydney desalination plant and on the financing for the Defence Project Single LEAP (Living Environment and Accommodation Precinct), a Commonwealth defence project for living-in accommodation for single Defence Force members.
Clayton Utz
Clayton Utz promotes Sharry to partnership Clayton Utz has promoted insolvency & restructuring specialist Scott Sharry to the partnership. Sharry began his legal career with Clayton Utz in 2001 as a graduate, and has represented a range of interests and clients during his time there. Clients have included banks, financiers, liquidators, receivers and administrators (in relation to insolvency administration), recovery and management issues, across a broad range of industries.
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Sharry said his appointment reflected the strength of Clayton’s restructuring, insolvency and general commercial litigation practices – both in Queensland, where he is based, and country-wide.
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Kligers Partners
Two principals sign to Kligers Melbourne mid-tier firm Kligers Partners has added Anton Block and Meaghan Bare to its principal ranks. Block joins the firm from Rigby Cooke and will be part of the dispute resolution group, while Bare was formerly a principal at CCI Lawyers. She joins the firm’s employment law practice group.
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Gilbert + Tobin
Two principals sign to Kligers Gilbert + Tobin managing partner Danny Gilbert sent round an e-mail recently announcing the appointment of five partners to the ranks, as the firm ramps up operations in anticipation of a new office opening in Melbourne. Of the five partners that have been recruited, IT & telecommunications specialists Michael Caplan and Cameron Whittfield are expected to work out of Gilbert + Tobin’s new Melbourne office.
Caplan joins the firm from Blake Dawson and has a strong relationship with Telstra, having worked on the telco’s outsourcing of Medibank, AGL and Tabcorp’s telecommunications; NAB’s IT & telecommunications, and Telstra’s renegotiation of its long term IT Operations Services Agreement (ITOpSA) with IBM. Whittfield spent his early career working for Russell McVeagh, Vinson & Elkins in London and Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris, advising on corporate Catherine transactions, cross-border M&A, Dermody telecommunications reform and commercial arrangements. Martyn Taylor has joined the firm’s competition & regulation practice group in Sydney. He previously worked in the competition teams of Mallesons and Freehills and has more than 15 years regulatory and commercial experience, obtained Cameron principally within the Asia-Pacific Whittfield region. Finally, Catherine Dermody, a regulatory lawyer in the competition & regulation group, and Tim Gole, a lawyer who focuses on large and complex TMT transactions in the corporate, communications & technology group, have both been promoted to partner
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