POST Osteria & Bar
1 Cathedral Avenue,
Perth WA 6000
Overview (Program Summary)
We invite you to an exclusive roundtable luncheon, hosted by Mills Oakley and tailored for General Counsels and Chief Legal Officers on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 at Perth’s prestigious Post Osteria & Bar, with doors opening at 12:00pm for a 12:30pm lunch and session start.
Incentivising Contractor Performance to Drive Success
This session explores how well-considered and calibrated incentive structures can align principal and contractor behaviours with project goals, enhance accountability, and deliver measurable outcomes.
We will unpack practical frameworks and real-world examples to demonstrate how the right incentives can transform contractor relationships into high-performing and long-term partnerships.
Scheme Arrangements
As most are aware, a scheme of arrangement is commonly used to implement M&A transactions. Beyond this M&A setting, up until relatively recently it has generally been overlooked that the same framework can be used by corporate groups to implement an internal restructure as an alternative to other more common forms of restructuring. Luke will briefly outline the process, some of the considerable advantages using this framework compared to the more conventional forms and give some recent examples of Australian corporate groups that have successfully implementing these schemes.
Speakers
Luke Nicholls, Partner, Mills Oakley
Luke is a corporate law partner at Mills Oakley Perth with over 21 years’ experience in leading law firms in London and Australia. Luke practises in the areas of corporate, commercial, real estate and energy and resources law, and has advised on a wide range of commercial transactions, including takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, capital raisings, joint ventures and solvent restructures.
Luke also has considerable experience in cross-border M&A transactions and private equity, including advising private equity and investment funds, and in the real estate and energy and natural resource sectors, including recently advising Vale S.A. on the restructure of its Australian group involving 14 in-flight section 413 schemes of arrangement.
Yannis Vrodos, Partner, Mills Oakley
Yannis is a project development and procurement lawyer in Mills Oakley’s national Corporate (Energy, Resources & Infrastructure) team, advising on globally significant transactions.
Yannis advises ASX-listed, private and government clients on the world’s most significant mining, energy, and infrastructure projects. He also has extensive experience in advising lenders; financers; government and government trading enterprises; and investors.
He is trusted advisor of the firm’s clients, who demonstrates extensive sector-expertise in advising on:
· contracting strategy and structuring;
· tendering and procurement processes; and
· the negotiation, drafting and contract management of development and procurement arrangements throughout the life cycle of a project.
Yannis enables his clients to navigate complex projects with confidence, in order to achieve successful project outcomes.
Yannis advises on the extensive range of contractual documentation used in Australian and international projects, including EPC; D&C; EPCM; BOO; BOOT; DBOM; PPP agreements; alliance and relationship contracting, development agreements, services agreements; consultancy agreements; O&M agreements; goods and supply agreements; PPAs; mining services agreements; and offtake agreements. He has experience with bespoke; Australian Standards; FIDIC; and NEC forms of contract.
Yannis also advises on general commercial contracting; outsourced services; digital infrastructure development; and statutory and contractual interpretation and regulatory advice.
He has advised on projects in every Australian jurisdiction, and in many international markets, including Singapore; Hong Kong; Malaysia; Taiwan; Japan; Morocco; Bosnia & Herzegovina; the Russian Federation; and numerous African jurisdictions (including Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Mali, South Africa, Eritrea, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Burkina Faso).
Notes
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