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Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia's leading independent law firm.

We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients' most challenging issues.

With more than 175 years of history and a talented and diverse team of over 1,000 people, we pride ourselves on our client-focused approach and commitment to excellence. Our fundamental ambition is the success of our clients, and this is reflected in everything we do.

We advise on the most significant domestic and global matters and connect with the best lawyers internationally to provide our clients with the right team for every engagement. We are the firm of choice for many of the world's leading organisations, with our people consistently recognised for providing outstanding client service and delivering exceptional results.

Consultants. Experts. Innovators.

Rimkus is a worldwide provider of engineering, technical, and construction consulting to corporations, insurance companies, law firms, and government agencies. Rimkus experts specialise in forensic consulting, dispute resolution and construction management services, solutions for the built environment, and human factors support for the consumer, industrial, and healthcare industries.

For more than 40 years, the company's professional engineers, architects, scientists, and technical specialists have been recognised for their commitment to service excellence by local, national, and international business communities. Rimkus operates more than 100 offices worldwide.

Versed Advisory provides expert witness, claims, and advisory services across the construction and engineering sector. Our experienced team advises at every stage of the project lifecycle: from planning and risk assessment through to dispute resolution and project recovery.

We specialise in delay analysis, programming, and commercial advisory, and are regularly engaged on complex claims involving extensions of time, disruption, and complex quantum issues.

Whether positioning a project for success, turning around one in distress, or resolving disputes after project completion, our experts bring the rigour and independence that clients and their legal teams rely on.

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organisations facing crisis and transformation, with more than 8,100 employees across 32 countries and territories.

FTI Consulting is dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. FTI Consulting professionals, located in all major business centres throughout the world, work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and opportunities.

Greenway Chambers is a highly regarded collective of barristers based in Sydney. It is known for delivering trusted advocacy, strategic insight, and outstanding legal acumen. Home to a diverse group of accomplished barristers, advocates, and advisers, Greenway Chambers is recognised for its depth of expertise across a wide range of practice areas.

Our barristers are committed to excellence in all aspects of legal practice — combining intellectual rigour with practical, results-driven advice. We work in close partnership with solicitors on complex, high-stakes matters, offering clarity and confidence in litigation, dispute resolution, and advisory work.

Guided by a culture of collaboration, professionalism, and integrity, Greenway Chambers is dedicated to delivering legal excellence and contributing to the evolution of the law in Australia.

Secretariat experts are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world. Renowned law firms, leading corporations, and governmental entities turn to our disputes, litigation, engineering, economic, and data advisory professionals when the stakes are high — supporting them with meticulous preparation, insightful analysis, and clearly persuasive communications.

Our bright minds and passionate problem-solvers put their financial, analytical, and strategic insights to work in the fast-paced sectors we serve — from construction and energy to healthcare, technology, and natural resources.

Quality, integrity, and independence are woven into every aspect of our work. But, most importantly, when success is on the line, our globally integrated teams thrive on working through the most daunting problems in ways that remove uncertainty and instil confidence.

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides AI-powered legal, regulatory, business information, analytics, and workflows that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.

As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,900 employees worldwide, and is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

Pinsent Masons is a multinational law firm with a long track record of working on major construction projects across the world. With 30 offices in 4 continents, including offices in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, our lawyers work closely with contractors and developers on the full lifecycle of projects.

Our expertise in this area has seen us named as the global recipient of the Lexology Index Construction Firm of the Year Award for 18 consecutive years and ranked in leading legal directories Chambers Asia Pacific and Legal 500 for construction across the Asia Pacific region.

We also support our clients across all areas of corporate law, including employment, finance, litigation and dispute resolution, planning and environment, projects, property, restructuring and insolvency, technology, media and telecommunications, and work health and safety.

Constructive Advisory provides construction procurement/tendering, contracting and project delivery support. We also advise about the laws, regulations and rules governing infrastructure, building and construction projects.

Rebecca Dickson, our leading lawyer, has almost 20 years' experience supporting government, owners, contractors and consultants to understand and negotiate contracts, address risk, comply with contractual obligations and deliver projects.

We use the law to facilitate business. We understand that construction law (particularly the regulatory environment) can be challenging and we help you navigate it. We have a "future focussed" approach, and we work to avoid contract and project problems before they happen.

We work pragmatically. If you'd like advice only, we'll call or email. If you'd like to be represented in a negotiation, we'll be there with our "game face" on. If you'd like a lawyer in your team, we'll immerse ourselves in your workforce.

DRS provides a range of Alternative Resolution techniques for construction disputes, including adjudication, conciliation and facilitated processes. We focus on fair, independent and efficient outcomes, supported by strong training programmes and clear quality standards.

Our approach helps resolve matters quickly and in a proportionate way, giving firms a dependable framework to draw on when setting out dispute resolution mechanisms in their contracts.

HKA is a leading global consultancy specialising in complex disputes, investigations and expert support. We work alongside legal teams as trusted independent advisers, providing dispute resolution, expert witness and litigation support services across arbitration, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Widely regarded as one of the world's top expert firms, HKA has hundreds of subject-matter experts across more than 45 offices in 17 countries. Our experts include engineers, quantum specialists, delay analysts, forensic planners and damages experts, many of whom are recognised industry leaders with experience on some of the world's most complex matters.

Our integrated, multi-disciplinary model brings quantum, engineering, delay, disruption and damages expertise together in a single, coordinated team — enabling efficient investigation of technical and factual issues and the delivery of clear, well-supported opinions that withstand legal and tribunal scrutiny.

HKA supports disputes across construction and infrastructure, energy, natural resources, transport and other capital-intensive sectors, providing authoritative evidence in high-value and high-stakes proceedings.

Hall & Wilcox is a leading independent Australian law firm with more than 100 years' experience and a team of over 1,300 people across eight offices nationwide. The firm partners with corporate, public sector and private clients in Australia and internationally, and is recognised for its commercial approach, responsiveness and strong client relationships.

Guided by its Smarter Law philosophy, Hall & Wilcox listens, partners and solves to create lasting value for today and tomorrow.

Twenty-Two Group is a specialist construction consultancy providing commercial advisory, quantity surveying and quantum expert services across major projects in Australia. Founded by industry leaders with over 50 years' combined experience, Twenty-Two Group supports clients with practical, commercially grounded advice from procurement through to final account.

Our expertise spans contract strategy, cost planning, claims and dispute resolution, with a strong focus on achieving commercially sound outcomes. We bring a contractor and client-side perspective, enabling balanced, proactive decision-making that manages risk and maximises value.

Twenty-Two Group has supported projects across building, civil, infrastructure, transport, energy, healthcare, education and defence sectors, delivering services ranging from project health checks and procurement advice to quantum expert reporting and training. Regulated by RICS, we operate with integrity, transparency and a commitment to high-quality outcomes for our clients.

Routledge is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1836, we have published many of the greatest thinkers and scholars of the last hundred years, including Adorno, Einstein, Russell, Popper, Wittgenstein, Jung, Bohm, Hayek, McLuhan, Marcuse and Sartre.

Today Routledge is the world's leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We publish thousands of books and journals each year, serving scholars, instructors, and professional communities worldwide. Readers can access tens of thousands of print and e-books from our extensive catalogue of titles.

The Informa Law from Routledge imprint publishes high-quality guides and references for legal practitioners and professional learners across a range of specialised areas that include the laws of construction, shipping and maritime, transport, insurance, arbitration, finance and banking.

Marvin David Consulting Pty Ltd is a leading project management consultancy specialising in the identification and management of time-related risks across the full project lifecycle, from initiation to closeout. We provide expert planning and programming services through our ability to interpret site progress, design documentation, contract conditions, and current market delivery methodologies.

Our capability is underpinned by strong communication skills across all organisational levels, advanced proficiency in programming software, technical expertise in delay analysis, and a deep understanding of the market. Most importantly, we are driven by a genuine passion for maximising client outcomes.

With a people-first, entrepreneurial culture, we are lean, agile, and decisive. Across residential, commercial, infrastructure, energy, health, education, government and IT sectors, we deliver a 'no surprises' approach and project excellence, building trusted relationships and leaving a positive, lasting legacy on every project.

Major infrastructure and energy projects demand legal teams that understand both the commercial drivers and the technical detail. From structuring and financing through to construction, commissioning and operation, sponsors, government agencies and contractors need advisors who can navigate complex risk allocation, tight approval timelines, stakeholder pressures, and the claims and disputes that inevitably arise.

Emerging technologies, including digital twins, automated systems and data-driven platforms, are reshaping how projects are delivered, bringing new questions around intellectual property, licensing, cyber security and data governance.

Clayton Utz sits at the forefront of this work. Our teams shape Public Private Partnership templates, collaborative contracting models and dispute avoidance mechanisms adopted across the market. We act for government and private sector proponents on projects spanning transport, logistics, social infrastructure, energy generation and transmission, resources, telecommunications and real estate development throughout Australia.

Thomson Geer is a major Australian corporate law firm. We are trusted by companies, governments and institutions to act for their commercial and legal interests. With more than 925 people, including over 160 partners, operating out of our offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra, we are one of the 10 largest firms operating in Australia.

Thomson Geer has extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of major infrastructure and development projects and construction work. We provide pragmatic advice through every stage of a project, including drafting and negotiating front end contracts and agreements, dispute resolution and prevention, environmental issues, project financing, project delivery and procurement, and legislative and regulatory requirements.

Our clients include major contractors, engineering companies, infrastructure providers, property developers, healthcare providers, water companies, miners, transport and logistics firms, federal, state and local governments, and energy suppliers. The team has acted for principals and contractors, giving them expertise on both sides of construction transactions. We provide practical, realistic advice that gives our clients the commercial edge.