Simon Taskunas Email & Phone Number

I am a senior commercial lawyer with over 25 years of legal advisory and transaction experience assisting corporate and government clients, fund managers, investors and developers throughout Australia and Asia.I help clients navigate the complexities of capital transactions, and major development, energy transition, and social infrastructure projects, including tax-effective structuring, obtaining regulatory approvals (including FIRB), managing legal and commercial risks, and negotiating and documenting direct and indirect buy/sell/M&A, joint ventures and co-investments, and major precinct and mixed use developments.My experience spans all property classes - commercial office, industrial and logistics, healthcare, aged care and retirement, residential communities, strata apartment projects, retail activity centres, hospitality and leisure, universities, and pastoral agriculture. Being a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), I advise clients on governance and risk management issues. I also advise public sector clients on their statutory functions, powers and duties across different sectors.I regularly advise mining and resources, transport, energy, renewable, infrastructure and aquabusiness clients on projects involving complex land access, tenure and development arrangements on freehold, Crown, port, and State forest property.I recently co-chaired the Clayton Utz Perth office's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) committee which works with, and for, Indigenous Australians to create a shared understanding and opportunities for justice, education and equitable standards of living in our communities.Specialties: Solutions-focused legal advice.

Listed skills include Joint Ventures, Mergers And Acquisitions, Legal Advice, Foreign Investment, and 24 others.

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  Clayton Utz

  Jan 2015 - Present - Perth, Western Australia