Competition/Antitrust

Elizabeth Avery heads the Gilbert + Tobin competition team from the law firm's Sydney office. She advises on a range of competition matters, including merger clearance, ACCC inquiries and litigation, and offers particular experience acting for clients in the financial services sector.

"She's a delight to work with and considered and practical in her advice. She's calm under pressure and convincing in the boardroom."

"Elizabeth is a leader in her field."

"Her main strength is to present practical and well-explained solutions to complex situations."

Simon Muys heads the Melbourne competition group while personally operating a highly varied and versatile practice covering transactional, regulatory and contentious issues which often originate in the infrastructure and telecommunications spaces.

"Simon Muys is a good operator."

Charles Coorey wins high praise from clients for his work on ACCC merger clearance and investigations matters.

"He's clear, concise and cuts through to the commercial issues, tailoring the issues to the way the ACCC will think."

"Charles is professional, responsive and commercial in his approach."

"Charles has a client service-oriented approach, ensuring his own availability as needed but also using the depth of resources available to him. He works with his clients to ensure needs are being met and keeps his client appraised of developments so there are no surprises. Charles understands the industries in which his clients work."

"Charles knows the law inside out but his advice is practical. On a recent matter, our legal position was good, but he gave a more realistic assessment of where we might end up in practice."

Louise Klamka is particularly strong at advising clients in the aviation and technology sectors on a wide range of Australian competition and consumer law issues.

"Louise is an exceptional lawyer and our go-to partner for our most important competition and regulatory work. Louise has exceptional technical skills matched with an excellent commercial acumen and unparalleled understanding of our business. She has guided us through our most difficult and complex competition and regulatory matters over the last few years."

"Louise is incredibly smart, knows the area better than anyone, is very engaging and interested in our business and delivers value to our company through multiple other services offered."

"Louise was extremely helpful in the process with her diligence and patience for gathering and processing all the information and providing us with the best ideas in presenting the relevant arguments."