Michael Brady is a partner practising out of HWL Ebsworth's Perth office and is HWL Ebsworth's Energy & Resources Sector Lead. As a specialist corporate, energy and resources lawyer, Michael primarily works with clients in the natural resources, oil and gas, mining, construction, technology, and commodities sectors. He advises on domestic and cross-border transactions, government and third-party contracting, permitting and access, regulatory and compliance matters, as well as, mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, and on and off market corporate advisory matters.

Nadia Kalic is a partner at Clifford Chance who specializes in M&A and Projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. She has over 18 years' experience working on transactions across Australia, Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa and Asia Pacific. She is a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group, co-head of the firm's Global Oil & Gas Group and a member of the firm's Global ESG Board and Global Responsible Business Board. Outside of her legal work, Nadia devotes significant time to pro bono and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Jess is company secretary and general counsel at Alinta Energy. She previously worked in house in upstream oil and gas, mining and public infrastructure projects. Jess’ experience spans the entire value chain in a number of energy commodities. Jess’ career has been built on value creation by optimising assets, regulatory, and market outcomes.

Simon has extensive work experience within the private, public and not for profit sectors. Industry experience includes mining, technology SMEs, construction, engineering and professional services. Simon has comprehensive systems engineering and auditing experience for quality, management systems, ICT infrastructure, design, international EPCM projects, ISO/Aus standards, organisational culture and safety.

Amelia is a globally experienced oil and gas executive, General Counsel and Company Secretary. She has over 20 years experience and proven results in the commercial, legal and corporate areas of listed international oil and gas companies in Australia, South East Asia, North America and the Middle East.

Hemang Shah has advised on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of A$100 billion. He is an accomplished corporate lawyer in public and private M&A, equity capital markets, complex business transactions, and IPOs in Australia and abroad. His clients operate in a wide variety of business sectors including infrastructure, financial services, technology, and mining.

Richard Swaby is a Partner in the Audit division of BDO in Brisbane and has over 20 years’ experience in the provision of audit and business services to a diverse range of clients. Richard is the leader of the Natural Resources sector group for BDO in Brisbane. Richard’s experience includes working with listed clients in both Australia and the United Kingdom across a range of industry sectors.

Simon leads MinterEllison's Energy and Resources team. He uses his experience of more than 20 years across the energy and resources sector to assist clients to achieve their goals and to meet the challenges facing them.

John is a senior corporate lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience advising on major projects, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate governance, and corporate and securities law, with a focus on large and complex transactions, public markets mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets.

Michael is a Projects and M&A practitioner. He moved to Singapore in 2014 to help establish King & Wood Mallesons’ Singapore office and remains there as its current Partner in Charge. Michael has a sectoral focus on energy & resources and infrastructure (particularly digital infrastructure) and a particular expertise on all aspects of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply chain.