• Project management leading the legal workstream end‑to‑end

• Produce project and infrastructure specific legal process maps

• Build and maintain a legal risk register

• Calibrate engagement and compensation strategy

• Implement the Law Squared Landholder Platform

• Customise workflows, templates, and dashboards

• Design for reporting needs of key stakeholders

• Conduct user‑journey testing, data quality checks, and change impact assessments

• Deliver training, negotiation guides and precedent suites for legal, property, community engagement, and project control teams

• Track and provide insights into agreement status, compensation exposure, statutory timelines, risks/blockers etc.

• Execute land access and acquisition

• Tailor instruments to each infrastructure class

• De‑risk through rigorous due diligence

• Coordinate valuers’ compensation and support compensation positions

• Conduct negotiations with developers, acquiring authorities, landholders and representatives

• Manage compulsory acquisition pathways

• Maintain a single source of truth for information using Law Squared Landholder Platform.

We act for statutory authorities, government bodies, and private clients across a range of needs, including:

• Obtain necessary approvals to transition landholders to compulsory acquisition phase

• Issue notices and offers of compensation in accordance with relevant acquisition legislation

• Advise and represent clients on CA claims for compensation

• Conduct litigation in disputed claims for compensation

• Prepare, issue and negotiate land access agreements, options for easements and options to purchase;

• Undertake due diligence and assist in private land acquisition, including undertaking relevant title and company searches;

• Engage with landholders and/or their legal representatives, including attending valuers’ conferences and liaising directly with project stakeholders.

Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including:

• power purchase agreements;

• land crossing and land access agreements;

• facilities access agreements;

• connection offers and agreements;

• electricity retail supply agreements;

• network service agreements;

• metering service agreements;

• operation and maintenance agreements;

• infrastructure works agreements;

• infrastructure equipment supply agreements;

• embedded network service agreements;

• shared access agreements;

Learn more about our Commercial expertise