Louise Morrison

Professional Background

Breadth and depth of experience across enterprise scale assignments working at c-suite level
General Counsel for global corporate in the Oil&Gas sector ($2 billion USD turnover). Leading on all M&A and corporate compliance assignments – working on post deal execution delivery across multiple regions
Experienced transactional M&A lawyer across both private practice and in-house
A personal focus on, and proven track record of, building and leading loyal hardworking teams
Honours degree in Law

M&A Skills & Expertise

Commercially agile with strategic mindset
Global perspective with ability to develop global strategies to ensure effective delivery of projects with a standardised and scalable design
Highly skilled at working on complex multi-disciplinary assignments and working to tight deadlines
Expert at high level problem solving, able to navigate opposing views to deliver optimum workable solutions across conflicting stakeholder requirements
Experienced at championing the drive for minimising legal risk via strong corporate governance and internal controls
Able to augment in-house legal teams to achieve short term project based objectives, while allowing BAU workstreams to continue
Ability to drive value out of an organisation’s capabilities as well as manage robust forecasts, budgets and third party costs across large scale assignments
International experience and network

Project Highlights

Overall responsibility for merger of two global corporates in the Oil&Gas sector including carve out of Australian division in 2020 (combined value of $2 billion USD)

Initiated and led post merger execution delivery of corporate and compliance integration
Partnered with internal finance professionals and other stakeholders to execute delivery of overseas acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures
Instigated corporate restructuring projects in Australia and other territories including management of the pre-administration phase
Experienced legal governance professional, represented global corporate at a public hearing in Australia
Significant banking and refinance assignment experience, across multiple jurisdictions
Governance lead and compliance lead on global ABC and fraud investigations and associated dealings with regulators