King & Wood Mallesons has added leading environment, planning and native title practitioner Mark Beaufoy as a partner. He joins from DLA Piper where he was the lead environment partner in their Australian practice.
Beaufoy has a strong track record advising on and managing legal risks relating to site contamination and brownfield transactions and redevelopment. He is experienced in advising on environmental assessment requirements and planning and environmental approvals for major development and infrastructure projects, and has worked on a number of multi-jurisdictional environmental assessment and approval processes involving state and Commonwealth legislation.
He will join a number of other recent lateral partner hires to the firm’s national environment practice, including Scott Singleton who joined Malleons’ Brisbane office from Minter Ellison and Sally Audeyev who joined the Perth office from Ashurst.
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