Cassandra Wee and Amit Jois join HSF as partners in projects, energy, infrastructure practice
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has announced that it has internally appointed Nick Baker as managing partner and has strategically hired Cassandra Wee and Amit Jois as Sydney-based partners and members of the firm’s projects, energy, and infrastructure practice group.
“We continue to invest in the people and skills necessary to support clients on their energy transition work,” Baker said in HSF’s media release.
Baker, who will succeed Toby Anderson in the role of managing partner, is a Melbourne-based partner and leader of the firm’s projects, energy, and infrastructure practice.
He focuses on the energy and infrastructure sectors and handles strategic transactions such as public and private M&A and joint ventures. He has advised clients on foreign investment regulation, infrastructure regulation, wholesale trading, plant closures, and greenfield project development.
Baker welcomed Wee and Jois to the firm. “The hires of Cassandra and Amit give us greater capability and depth to service complex matters for sponsors, investors and financiers,” Baker said in HSF’s media release.
Wee, who comes from Ashurst, has deep technical knowledge on energy transactions and experience across power, gas, and carbon projects, regulation, and trading. She has handled matters involving project structuring, development, offtake, transactions, and regulation. She has worked in Asia and across Australia.
Jois, who joins HSF from Johnson Winter Slattery, focuses on M&A for private capital and corporate clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has assisted financial sponsors investing in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has served as a relationship partner for numerous clients.
“We now have over 100 partners globally who operate in the Energy sector, and our energy transition work is a solid contributor to firm growth in our region, up 20% from the previous year,” Baker said in HSF’s media release.
“Our investment in our energy capability is clearly working and it is a sign of confidence that top talent like Cassandra and Amit are excited about joining our team,” he added in the firm’s media release.
The appointments of Wee and Jois follow the firm’s promotion of Laurelle Ko and Joseph Varghese, energy and infrastructure project practitioners, to its projects, energy, and infrastructure practice last April.
