Specialist Corporate and Commercial Lawyers
How we can help
Our legal work has focused on M&A; land acquisition, divestment and rehabilitation; and planning approvals platform advice (modification, extension and compliance).
Over time, particularly through consolidation in the coal sector, our focus has shifted to contractors and suppliers of goods and services to the NSW mining industry and SWS clients benefit from working with lawyers who have acted on both sides of the mining equation.
Our expert lawyers provide a targeted range of services and work with other industry specialists to support mining and resources businesses.
We don’t do everything and only do what we are good at, which means:
For Landowners:
- commercial negotiation with mine owners and proponents
- compensation arrangements
- access agreements
- royalty arrangements
For Mine & Mining contracting:
- off-take, farm-in and joint venture agreements
- infrastructure sharing & collaboration, rail access and infrastructure (D&C) agreements
- labour hire, wet and dry hire agreements
- equipment finance and supply arrangements
- procurement, tender response and sourcing arrangements
- product design, fabrication and manufacturing agreements
For Early Stage & Mine Project Development:
- mining authority & tenement applications; tenement due diligence, management and compliance advice
- approvals platforms advice (modification, extension and compliance)
- exploration licences and mining access arrangements (exploration and mining)
- land acquisition, easements and dealings
- infrastructure development (planning & environment law advice)
- water rights advice, licence and permits; acquisition and disposal
- environment and ecology compliance advice; land management advice; offset arrangements; EPBC Act compliance and advice
For Disputes: Litigation & Arbitration; Dispute resolution, court proceedings and mediations.
Contact Richard Suters (contracting), Paul Jayne (planning & environment); David Allchin (land & mining law) and Andrew Windybank (corporate law)
Their approach is always professional and delivered at a standard comparable to a capital city law firm. It is the clear strategic direction that has always impressed me about the SWS team.
We believe their ability to combine first rate legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions. We use SWS because of their ability, not their post code.
Extreme gratitude to David and Andrew for all your help with our transaction. You were both fantastic to deal with (as were the rest of the SWS team) and certainly made the negotiations and dealings easy to handle for us through the whole process. I would certainly have no hesitation at all recommending you for any future work. Again, I appreciate all your assistance.
The combination of rare legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions.
SWS has assisted with advice on securing and exercising complex property and commercial contractual rights and assisting with protracted contractual management and implementation. We value legal experts who can offer pragmatic and commercial legal solutions for our complicated matters. SWS Lawyers has consistently met these criteria.
The team at SWS Lawyers have already showcased their professionalism, commitment, positive can-do attitude and insight into our needs and have a clear understanding of the disability sector.
