Projects‚ Infrastructure & Construction
Helping you deliver the projects that power, protect and transform Australia.
Piper Alderman’s national Projects, Infrastructure & Construction team advises on the projects at the centre of Australia’s energy transition, national security, and growth: electricity transmission, renewables and storage, hydrogen, defence, roads and rail, resources, water and digital infrastructure, and major building projects.
One team across the project lifecycle
What sets us apart is an integrated approach to project structuring, finance, and delivery. The lawyers negotiating your project documents understand what it takes to make a project financeable and bankable, and how risk allocation will play out through delivery.
The result is one integrated view of the commercial, financing, and delivery position, rather than separate legal workstreams that you need to coordinate.
That approach is particularly valuable where projects are new, complex, or nationally significant. We advise transmission network businesses on major interconnector and network projects, and government and industry on first-of-kind hydrogen, battery, and defence infrastructure, where there may be no established market precedent to follow.
Who we act for
Our clients include government, network businesses, infrastructure investors, developers, tier one contractors, technology and systems providers, subcontractors, and consultants. Advice spans the full project lifecycle, from structuring and procurement through to delivery, claims and dispute resolution, across PPP, EPC, D&C, ECI, alliance, BOOM, and managing contractor models.
The team’s experience extends beyond energy and defence to major road and rail programs, airports, social infrastructure and significant health, education, and commercial building projects.
Claims and disputes
Piper Alderman’s specialist national construction disputes practice acts on major claims, distressed projects and disputes across infrastructure, energy and resources projects, from adjudication and expert determination through to Supreme Court litigation and international arbitration.
Recent experience
- Lead legal adviser to ElectraNet on Project EnergyConnect, Australia’s largest electricity transmission project
- Advising the South Australian Government on the Hydrogen Jobs Plan and Port Bonython Hydrogen Hub
- Advising the Department for Infrastructure and Transport on the $15.4 billion Torrens to Darlington project
- Advising Hitachi Rail on its signalling contract for Brisbane’s Cross River Rail
- Advising ASC on construction contracting supporting Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine program
Our partners are recognised by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers for energy, infrastructure, and project finance. The model is deliberately partner-led, giving you direct access to senior advisers throughout.
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