Nicholas Antonas

Nicholas Antonas is an internationally recognised corporate lawyer with deep energy and resources transactional expertise.  He represents international and domestic companies and investment funds throughout their Australian investments, including asset and share level acquisitions and divestments, foreign investment clearances, farm-ins/farm-outs, joint ventures, project development, shareholder activism, special situations and restructurings.

After starting his career at a leading Australian law firm, Nicholas spent over seven years at a US firm in London, where he worked on a broad range of complex cross border transactions, including market leading experience in restructurings and special situations in the energy sector, distressed energy M&A and cutting edge decommissioning matters. Nicholas was also seconded as interim general counsel of the FTSE 250 African downstream company Vivo Energy plc.

Nicholas has advised clients across Australia, South East Asia, MENA, North and South America, the United Kingdom, Europe and former CIS states.  He has been recognised by Chambers UK as an associate to watch and by Euromoney as a rising star, including in their Expert Guides (2022) for Energy and Natural Resources in Australia.  He has co-edited the leading text on decommissioning law and has written and spoken extensively on energy and ESG matters.

Nicholas holds a Master of Laws (Energy and Clean-tech) from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.

He is also on the Clean Energy Transition Advisory Committee of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee.

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