User:Freehills
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Freehills is one of Australia’s leading law firms providing innovative commercial legal advice with the resources and expertise of around 1000 lawyers, including more than 200 partners.
Freehills has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane and was one of the first Australian law firms to establish an Asian practice, setting up an office in Singapore and correspondent offices in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta.
The firm has grown consistently from its early beginnings in 1852 to become one of the largest and most respected law firms in Australia and South-East Asia. In 2000 the state-based offices of Freehill Hollingdale & Page officially changed their name to Freehills and became a single national legal partnership.
Freehills undertakes high-level legal work for 75 per cent of Australia's top companies and is involved in many of the largest and most complex commercial transactions. The key areas of practice Freehills works across are:
• communications, media and technology
• competition law
• corporate and M&A
• employee relations
• energy and resources
• financial services
• infrastructure
• intellectual property
• litigation
• property and environment
• regulatory and government affairs
• taxation.
In 2006/07 Freehills was awarded ‘Australian Law Firm of the Year’ at the Australian Law Awards, CFO magazine’s ‘Corporate Legal Services Firm of the Year’, FinanceAsia magazine’s ‘Best Financial Law Firm’ and the INSTO Distinction Award for ‘Law Firm of the Year’.
