People profiles
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