What would it be like to start a conservation investment business? That's the plan for 2020 as the working year resumes.

In a recent blog I talked about funds being at threat due to Brazil's poor management of the burning Amazon. Government payments for environmental outcomes ...

Recently I was asked to put together an agreement covering “all the data clauses”.  That’s a great and unusual brief.  More on the context in a minute. Tha...

The Amazon Basin and the Brazilian government are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The lungs of the planet are burning – 74,000 fires in Brazil fr...

On preparing to open for business - Some farewells are less of a big deal than others. Still, this post marks the closing of a chapter in the life. Last wee...

One of the things I want to do with Box Forest is to explain to the world how the business works, as a business. This post lifts the bonnet to show the machi...

I started thinking about opening my own shop after 20 years in corporate law. I was nearing 50 and had a sabbatical, then a career move sideways. Those were ...

This piece is my tribute to my clients over the years who have given me this feedback, which many a commercial lawyer has heard - “Mick seems like a good law...