HOW WE CAN HELP
Ranging from bet the farm litigation, and high-stakes transactions, through to defending criminal cartel proceedings, we have a strong track record in navigating our clients through challenging, complex problems.
Uncertainty unmanaged gets very messy, very quickly. Nobody deals with it better than us. Staying close to your business, our team is across all angles, locking down the details. We plan. We pivot. We problem-solve.
By staying those few steps ahead, we help shift uncertainty to success.
WE FIND A WAY
We take on challenges others won’t, to create opportunities they don’t see. There’s no too-hard basket in this office. |
NO B TEAM
The breadth and depth of our expertise can handle any problem. It’s why our team consistently tops the independent rankings.
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WE READ THE ROOM
Deals are done with people. We build and hold relationships. We read the regulator. We get what matters to your business. |
Our services
- Competition litigation, including defending ACCC and criminal enforcement proceedings, plaintiff and defendant private litigation
- Mergers and acquisitions, including ACCC clearances and authorisations
- ACCC conduct authorisations
- Regulatory investigations, including ACCC, ACMA, APRA and other regulated industries
- ACCC market inquiries and advising on industry codes
- Criminal cartel investigations and immunity applications
- Access regimes, economic regulation and pricing decisions
- Misleading and deceptive conduct, consumer protection and unconscionability issues
- Strategic advice on reforms to competition and consumer legislation and market regulation
- Competition law issues arising from joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Compliance systems and providing training to in-house counsel and whole business teams.
Successfully represented NSW Ports in ACCC proceedings alleging terms of privatisation were anticompetitive, winning at trial and on appeal.
Successfully obtaining ACCC authorisation for its merger with Armaguard, merging the two largest and only national providers of cash-in-transit services in Australia.
Regulatory implications of its proposed merger with Chemist Warehouse to create a leading ASX-listed wholesaler, distributor and retail pharmacy franchisor.
Achieving ACCC authorisation for a program to collectively acquire assurance services for mortgage aggregators.
Achieved unconditional clearance for Microsoft on their US$68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard (GCR Matter of the Year 2024).
On a large-scale investigation and Federal Court proceedings commenced by the ACCC on an agreed basis concerning alleged misleading and deceptive conduct.
ACCC authorisation of numerous strategic alliances with international and domestic airlines.
Range of competition and policy issues, including those related to the ACCC’s Digital Platform Services and Digital Platform inquiries.
Securing ACCC clearance and engaging with State and Federal energy regulators for its $773 million acquisition of Basslink.
