Melanie Debenham

Melanie Debenham is an environment, planning and communities lawyer. She is an expert on business-critical environment, planning, heritage and native title regulation in Australia. She assists both private and government clients in understanding the technical and practical impacts of complex and evolving regulation for their business.

Ms Debenham has advised on approvals, regulatory and compliance issues across the mining, oil and gas, energy and industrial sectors. She has assisted a large number of significant projects get started in Western Australia and Australia-wide, providing strategic and legal advice on approval, land access and operational issues. She has also advised on a number of proposed Australian projects where stakeholder and activist risk management played a critical role in the environmental approval process.