Johnson Winter & Slattery is engaged by major businesses, investment funds and government agencies as legal counsel on important transactions and disputes throughout Australia and surrounding regions.
Our firm provides a diverse range of opportunities for talented, enthusiastic people to develop brilliant legal careers.
Our news and media coverage including major transaction announcements, practitioner appointments and team expansions.
We support a number of community initiatives and not for profit organisations across Australia through pro bono legal work and charitable donations.
We support a number of organisations through sponsorships.
We recognise that the forestry and forest products industries are unique, with their own specific legal requirements affecting stakeholders such as plantation owners, institutional investors, asset and investment managers, government and forest managers.
Our team has in-depth understanding, experience and expertise in both the legal issues and the industry specific issues affecting the forestry sector. Our partner and forestry expert, Carrie Follas, holds memberships to both the New Zealand Institute of Forestry and The Institute of Foresters of Australia.
Our team's experience includes:
JWS has achieved an excellent result for the liquidators of the Gunns Group, with success in the Federal Court’s judgment in Bryant (Liquidator) v L.V. Dohnt & Co Pty Ltd, In the Matter of Gunns...
Foreign investors holding existing interests in agricultural land as at 1 July 2015 must register those interests by 31 December 2015.
As predicted, the Federal Government has acted on an election promise to lower the screening thresholds for foreign buyers of Australian Rural Land effective from 1 March 2015. Read on to find out...