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Our Sydney office has recently welcomed Special Counsel, Nick Ferguson to our Planning, Environment & Local Government team.

Nick is an experienced environment and planning lawyer. He specialises in environmental and planning litigation, advising on development and approval strategies, compliance with environmental law and mining and resources legislation, remediation of contaminated land, and biodiversity and offsetting obligations. He brings extensive expertise in compulsory land acquisition law and compensation and advises a variety of government and private clients on complex compulsory acquisition claims, and strategies to acquire land.

Nick also has experience drafting and advising on commercial agreements in the mining sector, including agreements for land access, compulsory acquisition and third party interface deeds. His compensation expertise also includes compensation for subsidence caused by mining.

Planning Environment & Local Gov Sydney team

About Sparke Helmore

We’ve come a long way since our doors first opened in the Hunter in 1882.  We’ve had an office in Sydney since the ‘60s and we recently opened our tenth office in Cairns.

We cover six key areas of law – Corporate & Commercial, Commercial Insurance, Government, Property Environment & Finance, Statutory Lines of Insurance and Workplace – with more than 30 specialised areas of expertise. We’re a truly national, full service and proudly Australian firm that delivers results through deep collaboration with our clients. Wherever our clients need us, that’s where we’ll be.

Covering a big country needs a big team—we’re more than 880 people now and still growing. And in true Australian spirit, we’re friendly, approachable and easy to work with. And when you work with one of us, you get the expertise of all of us.

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