Clifford Chance Perth partner and global oil and gas group co-head Tracey Renshaw has left the firm to join DLA Piper's London office – the latest in a string of partner exits from the Magic Circle firm in Australia in recent years.

A corporate lawyer, Renshaw specialises in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas and mining sectors. In 2017, she represented Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc on a $250 million sale of its Australian aviation business to Melbourne-based oil refiner and marketer Viva Energy Pty Ltd. At Clifford Chance, she led the oil and gas group with London partners Alexandros Panayides and Graham Phillips.

Renshaw joined Clifford Chance as a partner via the 2011 merger with Perth-based boutique Cochrane Lishman Carson Luscombe, where she was one of its seven partners. Previously, she was counsel at Australian firm Allens in Perth, and a senior associate at DLA Piper in London.