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Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm, providing exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes in the infrastructure and energy sectors.
Our integrated transactional and regulatory teams advise all public and private sector participants, including private equity, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, as well as strategic investors and infrastructure developers across key transactions and projects shaping Australia’s infrastructure and energy future.
Our multi-disciplinary experience means we advise on transactions and projects across the entire project lifecycle, from sale and acquisition, development and procurement, access, environment and planning, real estate, financing, through to delivery phase advice, refinancing, restructuring and dispute resolution.
We cover all forms of economic and social infrastructure, as well as core plus exposures particularly in the digital infrastructure sector. Our team is asset driven, meaning that we bring the required asset and sector expertise and experience from wherever it resides within our firm to ensure that the range of issues associated with investing in complex infrastructure – whether a greenfield or brownfield opportunity – are comprehensively and efficiently addressed.
With more than 175 years of history and a talented and diverse team of over 1,000 people, we pride ourselves on our client-focused approach and commitment to excellence. Our fundamental ambition is the success of our clients, and this is reflected in everything we do.
We advise on the most significant domestic and global matters and connect with the best lawyers internationally to provide our clients with the right team for every engagement. We are the firm of choice for many of the world’s leading organisations, with our people consistently recognised for providing outstanding client service and delivering exceptional results.
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management (EUR 134 billion in fee-generating assets under management), divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership.
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CloseCathy has spent her career in the energy and environmental sectors at the nexus between technology, management, and policy. For six years Cathy was CEO of EVgo, the leading publicly traded electric vehicle fast-charging infrastructure company in the US. Prior to EVgo, she co-founded Odyssey Energy Solutions, a software platform serving the minigrid sector, was CEO of Frontier Power, a rural electrification company incubated by SunEdison, and an adjunct professor and Precourt Energy Scholar at Stanford University. Cathy served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary and Acting Under Secretary at the Department of Energy, where she oversaw more than $30 billion in energy investments. Cathy was the founding CEO of both the Alliance for Climate Protection, established and chaired by U.S. Vice President Al Gore; and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a $50m fund to commercialize clean energy technologies in New South Wales, Australia.
In addition to her work with EQT and its portfolio companies, Cathy is currently on the boards of Consolidated Edison and SPAN.io and is an advisor to APAX’s Global Impact Fund.In the early 1990s, she was Chief of Staff for Environmental Policy in the Clinton White House and she pioneered the Energy Star program while at the US EPA.Cathy has a B.S. in Geology (Honors/Magna cum laude) from Duke University and a M.S. in engineering from Dartmouth.
Sam Franklin joined EQT Partners in July 2019.
Prior to joining EQT Partners, Sam was an Associate at Affinity Equity Partners in Sydney, focusing on private equity investments in the Financial Services, TMT, Data & Digital and Consumer Sectors.
Prior to Affinity, Sam worked at Macquarie Capital in Sydney and Deutsche Bank in New Zealand. Sam holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Auckland, New Zealand.