Future-focused experts in water and waste
Touching every facet of human, economic and social development, water is foundational in improving the livelihoods of the world’s population. As a shared and finite resource, factors such as population growth, increased demand for and rising costs of energy, increased urbanisation, watershed and environmental degradation, natural disasters, climate change and the competing interests of users increasingly stress current water supply.
A number of these variables are also shining a light on the management of waste, emphasising the pressure that our predominantly linear economic model (source, make, use, waste) puts on the environment while underlining the need for sustainable solutions. Increasingly these include deploying waste as an alternative source of energy, curbing excessive consumption, implementing greater efficiency in the built environment and expanding on existing recycling efforts.
Common to resolving the challenges is the importance of a future-focused approach to providing clients with strategic advice on what are highly regulated and rapidly changing areas of law.
For decades we’ve delivered those insights to clients – leveraging our experience to support water and waste operators, infrastructure owners and developers, infrastructure funds and other investors in the sector, governmental bodies and regulators, public and private sector funders, sponsors, financiers and contractors on their most complex greenfield and brownfield projects.
Multidisciplinary expertise
For each matter we offer a bespoke multidisciplinary team of water specialists and local experts to ensure our clients’ projects are successful.
We advise on:
- Desalination, water treatment and recycled water
- Water security, transportation and management
- Pollution and contamination
- Waste disposal and recycling facilities
- Waste-to-energy, biomass and methane generation projects
- Policy development, price control and regulatory matters
- Planning advice and environmental compliance
- Investing in the water and waste sector – mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Infrastructure projects, including public private partnerships (PPPs)
- Related technology projects
- Dispute resolution, including class actions.
