Amelia Arndt

Senior Associate

Perth

Amelia is a specialist environment, planning and communities lawyer in our Projects, Energy and Infrastructure team with broad and meaningful experience helping clients with regulatory risk and compliance, Indigenous engagement, and ESG issues.

Amelia has worked both for, and closely with, large mining corporations, local government and Aboriginal corporations in a broad range of transactions including environment, land access and tenure, native title, Aboriginal heritage, renewable energy, mining and general corporate advisory matters.

Background

Amelia has completed a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Curtin University in 2017.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

Negotiation of native title agreements, Indigenous land use agreements, Aboriginal cultural heritage agreements for multiple mining projects
Strategic advice for consultation with project stakeholders and obtaining key environmental approvals
State and Federal environmental assessment, approval and licensing processes, including tenure advice for major mining, energy, oil and gas projects in Australia
Threatened enforcement action for alleged non-compliance with conditions of environmental approval and tenure arrangements under both State and Federal regimes
Strategic advice on the impact of major environment and Aboriginal cultural heritage legislative reforms