Charles Coorey

A practical guide to Australia’s legal and regulatory landscape for businesses, investors and legal advisers entering or operating in Australia. It provides an overview of Australia’s system of government, legal framework and key regulators…

Australia’s new merger reforms have commenced and mark the most significant overhaul of Australia’s merger control framework in decades.

Australia’s new merger regime came into effect on 1 January 2026, introducing a mandatory notification process with serious consequences for a breach. This article sets out key takeaways for private equity investors as you plan for deals un…

From 1 January 2026, Australia’s new mandatory merger notification regime took effect, representing the biggest change to merger regulation in decades. The reforms require parties to notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…

Australia’s new merger regime came into effect from 1 January 2026 which introduces a mandatory and suspensory regime. The regime introduces special obligations applying to major supermarkets which are discussed in this article.

G+T’s take on the major trends and data from 2024 and outlook for 2025.

ACCC merger reforms target private equity roll-ups, with new thresholds and scrutiny reshaping deal strategy ahead of 2026. Read more at Gilbert + Tobin.

Treasury consults on ACL ban on unfair trading plus rules for subscriptions, drip pricing, dynamic pricing, forced accounts and customer-support barriers.

With announcements today and over the past week, the Australian Government has kicked off a raft of consumer and product safety law reform, putting unfair trading practices, dynamic pricing and artificial intelligence (AI) squarely on the a…

Welcome to another bumper edition of Shop Talk: Consumer Law Enforcement Wrap-Up. There has been no shortage of ACCC activity in the consumer law space since our last wrap-up earlier this year, with recent developments reflecting key pillar…

Key Takeaways: Qantas has admitted that it misled consumers through advertising and offering for sale tickets that it had already decided to cancel.The ACCC and Qantas have agreed to a penalty of $100 million for Qantas’ breaches…

The first full year of Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb’s leadership of the ACCC has seen a refinement in emphasis on legal issues and a renewed focus on competition and consumer issues that have previously been explored by the ACCC. The ACCC…

Since our last enforcement wrap-up, the ACCC has kept busy on the consumer law front, issuing infringement notices, accepting court enforceable undertakings and instituting proceedings for more serious conduct.  In this bumper edition,…

On 31 August 2023, Treasury released its Consultation Regulation Impact Statement on proposed reforms to regulate unfair trading practices in Australia (Consultation).

Welcome to the very first edition of Shop Talk - a new quarterly wrap up of key legal developments in the Australian retail and consumer sector from Gilbert + Tobin’s market-leading Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team.…

We outline the draft Exposure Draft legislation which to amend the Australian Consumer Law & ASIC Act to strengthen the existing unfair contract term (UCT) regime.