King & Wood Mallesons is delighted to confirm that Jo Crew has joined the KWM partnership.
Jo Crew’s appointment boosts the energy practice capability at Asia’s top tier international law firm offers, at a critical time for the energy sector as it navigates a complex set of energy transition challenges and decarbonisation opportunities.
Jo comes to KWM from Norton Rose Fulbright where she was a senior partner and head of NRF’s Australian Projects and Construction Team, and Co-head of NRF’s Australian Energy, Infrastructure and Resources sector team.
Previously, she had been a Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills. During her career in London, Melbourne and Perth Jo has built a strong and diverse practice across both energy and infrastructure, specifically in energy markets and renewables 1.0 (solar, wind, hydro) and 2.0 (batteries, hydrogen) as well as transmission.
Commenting on the appointment KWM’s Head of Projects Craig Rogers said:
“We are very fortunate to have Jo join us. Her technical skills, experience and client relationships will bolster our energy practice’s partner-level depth, market standing and enable us to provide our clients consistently top-level growth opportunities in energy transition and regulation.”
Further commenting on the appointment KWM’s Chief Executive Partner Renae Lattey stated:
“We are incredibly excited to welcome someone of Jo’s multi-dimensional capability at such a critical time for the energy sector.”
“We see Jo’s expertise as a tremendous asset to our cross-practice and cross-border capability in particular – I can’t wait to see her working alongside our Banking & Finance, M&A, DR practices and the wider P&RE practice to realise some of the transformational opportunities that lie ahead in this sector.”
Jo joined the firm on 4 July
