Brittany Garagounis
Brittany Garagounis
Brittany Garagounis
Brittany Garagounis

Biography

Brittany is an associate in the Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution team based in the Sydney office.

Brittany assists clients in a broad range of commercial disputes, including construction and contract disputes, as well as administrative law disputes. Brittany operates across jurisdictions in Australia, and in relevant Courts and Tribunals, Brittany recently completed a client secondment with TagEnergy Australia.

Prior to joining White & Case, Brittany was a planning and environment litigator where she acted for both private and local government clients in the Land and Environment Court in relation to commercial and residential development disputes.

Brittany has a keen interest in fundamental legal principles arising from legislation and case law and applying them to solve complex construction and commercial disputes, and utilises her knowledge to assist clients with navigating legal procedure and preparing their cases to achieve positive outcomes.

Brittany is a clear and focussed communicator and assists clients to navigate disputes with confidence and clarity.

Experience

Representative experience at White & Case includes:

  • TagEnergy – Advising Tag Energy on its acquisition of the ACE Power group, a specialist renewable energy business which develops storage, wind, and solar PV projects, and is one of the largest energy portfolios currently in Australia by capacity. Our role included advising on the real estate aspects of the acquisition, conducting due diligence on the early-stage development land tenure transaction documents in connection with the acquisition which comprised 72 projects across asset classes including BESS, wind and solar projects.
  • TagEnergy – Advising TagEnergy on a number of wind farm projects throughout Australia including the Golden Plains Wind Farm Stage 3 in Victoria, including agreements for lease, lease, easement and neighbour agreements.
  • Atmos Renewables – Advising Atmos Renewables in relation to the real estate components of its proposed financing of the acquisition, construction and development of a BESS in WA, including reviewing and advising on complicated option to buy and lease structures in place between the parties.
  • Foresight Australian Renewables Income Fund – Advising Foresight Australian Renewables Income Fund on the real estate aspects of its AUD$700 million portfolio debt involving 23 real estate assets across Australia and 2 further assets on holding company basis.
  • Vestas - Advising Vestas on a number of wind farm projects throughout Australia, including Winterbourne wind farm (700 MW capacity) and Piambong wind farm (550 MW capacity), including advising on structuring of the property documents as well as preparing and negotiating transaction documents including options to lease, options for easement, leases, easements, rent agreements and financier tripartite deeds.
  • QuadReal – Advising on the real estate aspects of QuadReal's billion-dollar joint venture with GPT to invest in a logistics property platform, whereby the new JV acquired seed assets from certain subsidiary entities of GPT, including negotiating 8 contracts for sale, a property management agreement and development management agreement, and all aspects of real estate due diligence.

Representative experience prior to joining White & Case includes:

  • A local government client against an appeal by an Applicant for the deemed refusal of the demolition of existing structures and the development of a thirteen-storey commercial mixed-use development.
  • A local government client against a claim brought by an Applicant against a deemed refusal of a development application for a Torrens Title subdivision, demolition and construction of two separate dwellings with associated landscaping and swimming pools.
  • A private client against local government refusal of development application for alterations and additions to a heritage listed item in a Heritage Conservation Area.
  • A local government client against an appeal brought by an Applicant against the refusal of a development application for a five-lot subdivision creating five community title rural residential lots and one community association lot.
  • A local government client against an appeal of the actual refusal of a development application for alterations and additions to an attached dual occupancy.
  • A local government client against an appeal brought by an applicant against the refusal of a development application for a two storey child care facility for 82 children with basement parking.
New South Wales
Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) combined with a Bachelor of International Studies
Macquarie University
Graduate Diploma
Legal Practice
College of Law
English
Greek

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