NATURAL RESOURCES (DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL)

Resources covers Mining for metals and industrial minerals, Petroleum, which includes hydrocarbon in its three states of gas, liquid and solids, energy and the infrastructure, transport and engineering that bring them all into being.

Australia is one of the most sophisticated resource provinces in the world, having the most mature bureaucratic and legal regimes, which is the envy of most resource-rich jurisdictions.

Hale Legal is well endowed with the expertise to assist its clients in these fields.

However, Australians are now investing abroad, as foreign direct investors, in increasing numbers; therefore, requiring the knowledge of relevant laws in different sovereign states. These laws include treaties, mining agreements, mining & petroleum legislation, immigration, employment, investment, the various constitutions and many others.

See the page on Foreign Direct Investment (under “International Law”).