FMC has been engaged by five of Australia’s top 10 law firms, as well as several specialist national and international practices, to advise on both internal and client-facing matters.
With executive leadership experience at one of Australia’s largest law firms, we understand the critical need to balance legal and communication strategies.
We have advised on some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive legal matters – for defence teams, prosecutorial bodies and Inquiry teams.
Experience includes:
- Advising clients involved in multiple Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry in Australia and abroad.
- Supporting Omni Bridgeway and Dentons in relation to the largest-ever environmental class action against the Federal Government, resulting in a $212 million settlement.
- Advising numerous law firms on media relations and public engagement in class actions.
- Advising a US-based multinational agricultural cooperative on legal proceedings against one of Australia’s largest food manufacturers.
- Providing communications support in litigation against Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party for unauthorised use of the song We’re Not Gonna Take It in election advertising.
- Advising on the legal dispute over the unauthorised use of Eminem's Lose Yourself by the New Zealand National Party.
- Assisting clients with regulatory investigations led by the ACCC, ASIC and appointed administrators.
- Engaged by a global law firm to manage a complex workplace investigation.