Dentons: Matt Coleman And Louise McCoach Join As Partners

By Amit Chowdhry • Feb 20, 2025

Dentons recently added two new partners recently: Melbourne Infrastructure, Energy, and Major Projects Partner Matt Coleman and Sydney Financial Institutions Partner Louise McCoach.

Coleman is an experienced infrastructure, major projects, and energy partner. He focuses on the development and delivery of complex, large-scale projects across all market sectors, with extensive experience in project structuring, project management, procurement and delivery strategy, and risk analysis. He also has extensive experience with all forms of development, construction, and energy-related agreements.

McCoach is a leading financial institutions lawyer specializing in securitization, debt capital markets, structured finance, derivatives, and sustainable finance. And she has over 25 years of experience in a wide range of domestic and cross-border securitization and debt capital markets transactions and is highly regarded for her structuring work on highly complex and bespoke derivatives. McCoach has a strong profile in the Australian capital markets and is an active member of several industry groups.

Both Coleman and McCoach act for national and international clients.

KEY QUOTES:

“The addition of Matt and Louise, who both have extensive cross-border experience, will be of great value to our clients. I warmly welcome them.”

  • Newly elected Australia Chair and Australasia Region CEO Amber Warren while noting meeting client needs was a key factor in expanding the Infrastructure, Energy and Major Projects, and Financial Institutions offering.

“Our team has been growing rapidly over the past few years, with a complete offering along the East Coast of Australia. It’s wonderful to have Matt join us.”

  • Dentons Partner and Head of Construction, Planning and Real Estate in Australia Marcus Graham

“We’re delighted to have Louise join our market-leading team. Louise’s experience will add even greater depth to the financial institutions advice we can offer our clients.”

  • Dentons Partner and Head of Financial Institutions in Australia Anthony Walsh

“I’m delighted to join Dentons, and look forward to working closely with my new colleagues across the region, and playing a leading role in the growth of our infrastructure, energy and major projects client offering.”

  • Matt Coleman

“Being part of Dentons’ market-leading financial institutions team, as well as the world’s largest global law firm brings significant opportunities for my clients, which I’m very excited about.”

  • Louise McCoach