Competition/Antitrust
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Australia
Band 3
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Provided by Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie's Australian competition group offers expert assistance in competition law, drawing on extensive experience from advising the ACCC and private clients. We handle all aspects of competition law, including merger clearance, advisory, and enforcement matters.
Our leading merger clearance advice is demonstrated by our roles in major global and local transactions involving top market suppliers. These complex processes often require intricate merger clearance considerations. We also advise the ACCC on complex mergers.
The team excels in ACCC investigations and enforcement actions, representing both large commercial clients and the ACCC.
Leading multinational brands engage us for a full range of competition and consumer law issues, including complex distribution arrangements, pricing strategies, and online sales.
As part of Baker McKenzie's Global Antitrust and Competition Group, we are recognized as one of the top 5 "Global Elite" competition practices worldwide by the Global Competition Review Survey.
Chambers Review
The Baker McKenzie competition team is experienced in the representation of both the ACCC and leading private sector companies. Thanks to the resources of a global competition network, it is well placed to advise on significant cross-jurisdictional transactions, while maintaining a prominent presence in the domestic market. The practice is active across the full range of merger clearance, regulatory investigation and infrastructure access briefs, as well as being engaged to advise on local and global enforcement proceedings by both the ACCC and corporate clients.
Work Highlights
- Baker McKenzie acted for Sika AG in relation to its EUR5.2 billion global acquisition of MBCC Group and Sika's application for informal merger clearance from the ACCC in Australia.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team got a handle on the issues very quickly in terms of both legal and regulatory avenues for achieving an outcome."
"The firm provides commercially astute advice and is responsive to the needs of our organisation."
"The team got a handle on the issues very quickly in terms of both legal and regulatory avenues for achieving an outcome."
"The firm provides commercially astute advice and is responsive to the needs of our organisation."
Notable Practitioners
Georgina Foster leads the practice from the Sydney office and advises across the full landscape of transactional, contentious and regulatory work.
"Georgina is a seasoned professional and has fantastic expertise in this area."
Helen Joyce is well-known for her skills in competition law litigation work. She often represents her clients on issues like misleading and deceptive conduct as well as merger authorisation assessments. She is based in Melbourne.
Lynsey Edgar is based in Sydney and has significant experience handling disputes relating to all aspects of competition and consumer law, including enforcement litigation, merger clearance, ACCC investigations and cartel issues.
"Lynsey's knowledge of Australian consumer law is outstanding, commercially practical and extremely timely."
"She is very knowledgeable and experienced in consumer and competition law, and has gone over and above in terms of service delivery."
Ranked Lawyers at
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