Mark Burchnall was admitted in 2000 and is the head of corporate practice at Murcia Pestell Hillard, specialising in work for energy & resources, technology and innovation clients.
Mr Burchnall has almost 20 years of corporate, commercial, energy and resources and technology-related legal experience, both with national Australian law firms and in-house for a number of international mining and oil & gas clients. He also spent over 6 years working directly within the mining industry in senior manager and director-level positions for international listed companies (including 4 years based in London), and has been a founding director of several startup companies.
Mr Burchnall has structured, managed and led key corporate transactions ranging from public listed company takeovers and mergers by scheme of arrangement, to share and asset sale and purchase arrangements, joint venture agreements and intra-group restructures (with the associated management and coordination of internal and external teams).