King & Wood Mallesons’ market leading Environment, Planning & Native Title practice has attracted another prominent practitioner, partner Mark Beaufoy, who will join the firm’s Melbourne office this month.
Mark will support the firm’s national Environment practice, which is steered by co-heads Debra Townsend and Matthew Austin, to provide clients with additional national capability in this area.
Mark joins KWM from DLA Piper where he was the lead Environment partner in their Australian practice. He has a stellar reputation as a highly respected Environment and Planning specialist with extensive transactional and projects experience.
Mark has a strong track record advising on and managing legal risks relating to site contamination and brownfield transactions and redevelopment. He is experienced in advising on environmental assessment requirements and planning and environmental approvals for major development and infrastructure projects and has worked on a number of multi-jurisdictional environmental assessment and approval processes involving state and Commonwealth legislation.
Mark regularly advises on environmental and planning regulatory obligations and compliance, including pollution control, waste, greenhouse and energy reporting and investigation and remediation strategies for contaminated sites. He is experienced advising on environmental due diligence and legal strategies for managing environmental legal risk in property and business transactions. Mark has worked on the environmental aspects of major transactions in the transport, energy, mining, water, pharmaceutical, equipment hire and steel industries.
Tony O’Malley, Managing Partner, Australia, King and Wood Mallesons said: “We are pleased to welcome Mark to the firm and look forward to him joining us. His specialist expertise and deep industry knowledge will complement the firm’s Environment practice and enhance our full service offering to clients across a number of sectors. His appointment reflects our ongoing investment in this area to meet a growing demand from clients.”
Mark will join a number of other recent lateral partner hires to the firm’s National Environment practice, including Scott Singleton who joined KWM’s Brisbane office from Minter Ellison and Sally Audeyev who joined KWM’s Perth office from Ashurst.
KWM’s Environment practice advises key players in the energy and resources sector as well as major constructors and real estate developers, and some of Australia’s biggest blue chip corporations. The team assists clients navigate environmental regulation and manage environmental risk and liability on projects all across the region.
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