Bio

Stuart James specialises in major cross-border and domestic transactions in the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures and commodity sales and marketing arrangements, in addition to general corporate and commercial matters. He has extensive experience advising multinational corporates and state-owned enterprises on their strategic transactions around the world, particularly in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Stuart has significant international and in-house experience, having previously practised as a corporate/M&A lawyer in London, Sydney and Perth, and having worked on a secondment basis with Mitsui, BHP, Woodside and Bank of America.