Expertise

Levent has extensive Australian and international legal and business experience representing public and private clients in corporate and commercial matters. His clients value his ability to deliver efficient and commercial outcomes.

His experience and expertise create value for major organisations in many different industries, including the extractive industry, construction, energy and resources, and sports and entertainment.

Levent also heads the firm's Blue Sky team and in that capacity uses his business skills and international networks to assist clients in product development and to break into key overseas markets.

Levent is also a director of Twenty3 Sport and Entertainment Pty Ltd, a sports and entertainment consultancy.

In articles appearing in The Australian  on 3 September 2010,[1] Levent was named as one of the nation's best lawyers, along with three other partners in our firm - John Hutchings, Louise Houlihan and Nicole Stevens-Warton. In the same articles, Cornwall Stodart was acknowledged as walking among the giants of the legal industry and was placed ahead of some top-tier and/or international firms. To see our Media Release and the full articles, please click here.

Experience

Levent's recent experience includes:

• acting for an Australian public company engaged in exploration activities in a "reverse" takeover of a US company (listed on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board), involving cross border issues
• acting for an Australian ASX listed public company engaged in exploration activities in preparing information memoranda for fundraising activities
• forming a public company to acquire Peruvian mining tenements, preparing an information memorandum for sophisticated investors and proceeding to an ASX listing
• acting for management in a buyout of Australia's second largest mortgage originator
• acting for Cement Concrete Aggregates Australia in its submission to the Government on changes to planning laws and the extractive industry approval process
• advising Cement Concrete Aggregates Australia with respect to Native Vegetation
• advising major quarrying companies on owner driver laws in Victoria
• acting for a major quarrying company in all aspects of a major acquisition of a quarry (including due diligence on all planning and environmental matters)
• acting for a client in a major disposition of a landfill
• acting for a construction group in its acquisition of an Australia wide civil construction business, involving due diligence on substantial work in progress (including a range of large civil projects)
• drafting different forms of construction contracts regarding infrastructure projects and multi storey apartment complexes
• advising an Australian Football League club on gaming laws and online betting
• negotiating terms of an introduction agreement for an Australian food manufacturer for the distribution and licensing of its product on a global scale

• negotiating terms of a marketing agreement for an Australian software company for the marketing of its patented software on a global scale.

Pro bono and Community Work

Levent is a regular donor to the Australian Red Cross and Salvation Army.

Memberships and Associations

Institute of Quarrying

Waste Management Association of Australia

Qualifications

Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (the University of Melbourne)

Bachelor of Commerce (the University of Melbourne)

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practise

Victoria

All federal jurisdictions

[1] Mid-tier lawyers join the A-team and Level playing field as smaller firms push into top rankings (p 33), Ron Pol, The Australian, 3 September 2010