Johnson Winter Slattery has announced the opening of a representative office in New York, strengthening the firm’s ability to support US clients deploying capital in Australia. The office will only practise Australian law. The move responds to substantial growth in US investment into Australia and builds on JWS's longstanding relationships with US corporates, financial sponsors and advisers. The US continues to be Australia’s largest source of foreign investment, particularly across the firm’s key areas of private equity, venture capital, technology and energy.