About Peter Briggs

Peter Briggs is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he leads the firm’s Australian environment, planning and communities practice, and is an experienced litigator in Australian courts. Peter has more than 30 years of experience advising corporate and government clients on matters that demand a creative, strategic and commercial approach ‒ for example, climate adaptation, ESG risks, regulatory issues, and crisis management. He also advises clients on planning law, contamination, pollution, heritage, biodiversity issues, environmental incident response, regulatory investigations, and defending environmental prosecutions. Ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and Partners, Peter is consistently recognised in leading legal directories as one of Australia’s top environment and planning lawyers.