Robert Merrick
Rob is a senior partner in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure Group focussing on acquisitions and divestments, joint ventures, project development and financing and commodity marketing in the energy & natural resources industries.
Rob has more than 30 years of experience advising on transactions and projects spanning upstream oil & gas exploration and production, midstream transportation and storage infrastructure, LNG export and import facilities, power generation and transmission, mining and minerals processing.
He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading energy & resources lawyers in Chambers (Band 1, Oil & Gas), Who’s Who of International Energy Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in Australia (Corporate Law, Corporate/Governance Practice, Energy Law, M&A Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law and Oil & Gas Law), Asia Pacific Legal 500 (Energy transactions and regulatory), Doyle’s Guide (Pre-eminent ranking), IFLR1000 (Highly Regarded, Energy & Mining) and Legal Media Expert Guides ‘Best of the Best’ (Energy & Natural Resources).
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- AMB Holdings and Rhodes Ridge Mining No 1 on the sale of a 15% interest in the Rhodes Ridge Iron Ore Project to Mitsui for an announced price of US$2.003B
- JERA on the acquisition of a 15.1% interest in the Scarborough LNG Project from Woodside for an estimated total consideration of US$1.4B
- Mineral Resources on the sale of Perth and Carnarvon Basin assets to Hancock for A$1.1B
- CalEnergy on the acquisition of the Suntop and Gunnedah solar farms in New South Wales from Canadian Solar
- APA Group on the development of the Northern Gas Interconnect Pipeline in Western Australia
- Santos, INPEX, SK E&S, ENI and Tokyo Timor Sea Resources on the sale of a 16% interest in the Bayu Undan Upstream Project to TIMOR GAP
- Darwin LNG on tolling agreements to process feedgas from the Barossa field into LNG
- Origin Energy on its proposed A$18.7B acquisition by Brookfield and EIG via scheme of arrangement
- Santos on its A$22B merger with Oil Search
Sectors
Services
Background
Rob holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Murdoch University (1994) and is a Fellow of Leadership Western Australia (2008).
