About Us
We help miners and financiers build profitable partnerships by developing practical project strategies that win board and financing approval. We are the only law firm in Australia regulated by the RICS, and we have 40 years of first-hand project development experience as engineers and quantity surveyors in mining, mineral processing and forming successful partnerships between explorers, miners, governments, and financiers. Our service offerings are as follows:
Win-win creative and practical solutions “enabling” project success
We will work with investors and miners to identify, mitigate, manage real and conceptual risks, problems, and opportunities, grow project strategies and develop project management plans so that mitigation processes and procedures are embedded into the project with a win-win for both investors and miners. We will find practical, economical, and innovative solutions to problems through the project life cycle from concept to mining, from mining to processing, and from processing to sales and delivery.
Stitch together & draft joint-venture contracts for large-scale mining projects
It’s our goal to set up a win-win framework. Our lawyers will negotiate and draft a contract that fairly balances the terms of involved parties so that team members are equipped for the best chance of joint success. Our claim is to create streamlined contracts with an appropriate supporting project management plan to secure continued board and financing approval.
Fast-track newcomers with proven engineer-QS-lawyer veterans
We are experienced in establishing feasibility studies, memorandums of understandings, and in forming successful partnerships between miners, governments, and financiers. More importantly, it’s our job to help you secure funding. We help you quickly complete the rigorous paperwork & legislative requirements so that projects secure funding sooner. Should you need any mining project, legal, or project documentation, we can likely help with that too. We have likely delivered similar strategies while employed by giants such as Leighton (now CPB), Fluor, AECOM, SNC Lavalin, and Coffey.
Drive strategies to raise your ESG scores to help your continued funding
We understand that you will be forced to reduce carbon footprints – while being pressured to meet the local government’s constraints. Our seasoned renewable energy specialists will diagnose, prescribe, and help your team identify and implement proven methods to raise your ESG scores.

We Keep Costs Down
We encourage and promote the early settlement of disputes minimising claim preparation costs, shortening dispute times while reducing the high personal toll construction disputes can take on our clients - but not without placing them first in the strongest possible negotiating position.
Engineers First
Because we were Engineers and Project Managers before Construction Lawyers, we faced ourselves the same project completion and financial pressures our clients face now. We take the time to understand our client's unique situation and assist them to settle their disputes and avoid the need for litigation proceedings.
Broad Construction Experience
Our breadth of expertise in Design Engineering, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Quantity Surveying and the Law, uniquely positions us to engage on behalf of our clients with a wide range of construction disputes with industry understanding.
What Our Clients Say

General Counsel
large Government Authority on a Rail Mega-Project
They had access to a building full of lawyers against the two of us.
Three years into the project not only the contractor had made us think that we were culpable for the extensive delays to the project, but we were very concerned we were liable for paying the large amounts of money claimed for delay and disruption.
Baker Merz’ involvement changed all that, their lawyers took a deep dive examining the documented history of the project by reviewing in detail every document produced from the tender stage and determining their value from engineering, scheduling, and contract viewpoints.
Baker Merz found that the Main Contractor had implemented substantial deviations from the agreed execution plan in the contract immediately after contract award and that these unauthorised changes had delayed the ‘freezing’ of the design from the 3 months’ commitment in the contract to almost 2 years, substantiating the delays we were allegedly responsible for were instead self-inflicted. Their presentation of the defence strategy to the City Mayor, CEO and upper management reinvigorated us and gave us the strength to fight back.
Baker Merz’ reports and delay analysis showing that the claimed delay events were not in the critical path allowed us to reach a fair settlement of all claims for a fraction of the amounts claimed.