Robert Wilcher Email & Phone Number

An experienced solicitor operating at partner level with extensive experience across all aspects of project development and planning and environmental law. Currently also on the Board of the Living Future Institute of Australia.With a career in both international and local law firms, I have pursued a passion for sustainable development of our natural resources, providing commercial and legal support for global heavy industrial enterprises, resource recycling facilities, long term residential development, biodiversity protection schemes and electricity infrastructure for high rise development, as well as innovative government projects with clear social benefits. I enjoy longstanding client relationships and a reputation for my business acumen, my solutions based approach and strategic thinking, excellent judgement and attention to detail. As a partner, I enjoy mentoring younger team members as they advance in their professional lives.After an extensive and successful career within prominent law firms I am keen to follow my passion for a sustainable future within an in-house position. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Biodiversity Resource Improvement Project, Eastern Creek, Sydney. An innovative use of planning agreements and planning approvals to increase the development yield of industrial parks at Eastern Creek while re-establishing 92 ha of Cumberland Plain Woodland for the NSW Minister for Planning.• Toronto Green Waste Recycling Facility. Lead negotiator for the operator with the Council and the EPA, finding solutions that would satisfy government ambitions, followed by Land & environment Court litigation to achieve the most appropriate operating parameters for the client.• Seniors Living Colocation Trial Project for TAFE NSW. Conduct of EOI and RFP processes, data room management and probity issues for innovative government project to locate private seniors living developments on TAFE campuses around NSW and realise attendant educational and lifestyle opportunities. • 1,900 residential subdivision north of Newcastle. Currently the lead legal adviser a vast array of complex planning and environmental issues for a 1,900 lot subdivision, including lead-in infrastructure, approval processes, jurisdictional issues, biodiversity conservation, developer contributions, lot density and yield, traffic management, land contamination.I also founded a writing collective called The Moving Pen: www .themovingpen.com.au. We publish short stories monthly, and I am currently serialising a novel on the site. I can be contacted on robert@brandswell.com

Listed skills include Joint Ventures, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Due Diligence, and 6 others.

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  University Of Sydney

  Law