Bill Napier

Partner, Sydney

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Current practice

Experience

Professional background

Experience

In rail freight, for Queensland Rail on corporatisation of aspects of its business, for Babcock & Brown on its A$1.4 billion purchase of the ARG rail freight business and for a bidder and lenders to a bidder on the privatisation of National Rail and Rail Freight
In passenger rail, for the consortium which sought to develop the extension of the eastern suburbs railway line to Bondi Beach, Sydney, for a shortlisted bidder on the Very Fast Train to Canberra project, for the developers of the 'OneLink' automated ticketing system for the Melbourne metropolitan public transport network, and for a short-listed bidder on the New South Wales Rolling Stock PPP
On road projects, for bidding consortia in each of the Sydney, Australia large toll road projects initiated by the state government in the last seven years (the Cross City Tunnel, the Western Sydney M7 39 km ring road and the Lane Cove Tunnel), and more recently on transfers of equity interests in all of them.

On all major Sydney 2000 Olympic projects, including for the owners/developers of Stadium Australia (the main venue for the Games), for the owners/developers of Newington Village (the athlete accommodation for the Games), for a shortlisted bidder for the Multi-use Arena, now the Superdome (the second venue for the Games), and for the builder of the Olympic Precinct Hotel
On public convention facility PPPs, including for a shortlisted bidder on the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre, and for the developers of the Darwin Exhibition and Convention Centre
On numerous social PPPs, including for a bidder on the Royal Women’s Hospital Project, Victoria, for major equity investors in a bid for the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, and for bidders on the Defence Accommodation Single Leap and Single Leap 2 projects
For a Mirvac-led consortium on its purchase of TelstraDome (Etihad Stadium) in Melbourne from the Seven Network.

For developers of PPP water projects, including a shortlisted consortium bidding on the South Australian water privatisation BOT projects, and for Jemena as developer and owner of New South Wales’ first industrial water recycling PPP
On the purchase or sale of water and port facilities, including for the vendors of the Prospect Water Filtration Plant (the largest water treatment plant in the Southern Hemisphere), for a member of a consortium that bid for the Dalrymple Bay port complex in Queensland, and for a bidder for the Burns Philp Terminals business
In Asia on institutional water reform, including for the World Bank on the reform of the Indonesian water sector and preparing concession arrangements for Jakarta, and on the reform of the Thai water sector.

In the power sector, for lenders on the South Australian power distribution and retail privatisation, for a bidder for the South Australian power generator at Pelican Point, for the owner/developer of the Victorian Hospitals Co-generation Project, for the developer of the Millmerran Queensland coal-fired power project, and as Australian Counsel to AIG/OTTP in their global purchase of the power business of Shell and Bechtel (InterGen)
In the gas sector, for a shortlisted consortium bidding to purchase the Bunbury to Dampier Gas Pipeline in Western Australia, and for the owner of the Sydney-Moomba Ethane Pipeline
In other industries, for coal investors on coal chain and logistics delivery, and for ERCO in its proposed sodium chlorate plant in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.

Acting for Defence Materiel Organisation both on the scoping study in relation to overhaul of its Contracting Template Suites and then on the full overhaul assignment, and on aspects of JP2077 (a logistics procurement).

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