Competition and Consumer Law Update: Important Developments and Future Focus
Stay up to date on the most important trends, developments and cases involving competition and consumer law. Explore the latest updates in significant new legislation. Analyse the critical takeaways from recent cases that may a have a major impact on your organisation. Prepare yourself to confidently, efficiently & effectively navigate any competition or consumer law risk that comes your organisation’s way. WEB229N51DZ
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Competition and Consumer Law Update: Important Developments and Future Focus
- ACCC’s focus under new Chair and impact of new Labor government
- Recent key cases and trends in penalties, including specific areas of concern
- Regulatory initiatives in relation to digital platforms and ‘Big Tech’
- Stocktake of proposed merger reforms and trends in ACCC merger reviews, including new FIRB regime
- The next phase of reforms to Australian Consumer Law, including new unfair trading prohibitions
Presented by Dr Martyn Taylor, Partner, and Zoe Lonard, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Presenters
Dr Martyn Taylor
Dr Martyn Taylor is a corporate and commercial Partner in the Sydney office of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. He has some 28 years’ experience in competition law. He heads the telecommunications and media group, the international trade group, and the rail group in the Asia-Pacific. He is described as “smart, efficient, friendly”. Martyn’s practice covers transactional, contentious and advisory. He is a well-known TMT, infrastructure, energy, competition and regulatory lawyer. Martyn is recommended by the key legal directories, including Best Lawyers, Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Doyle's Guide and APL 500. He is named as one of the ‘top 10’ TMT legal advisors in Asia. Martyn has won numerous prizes and awards, including recently for the $15 billion merger of Vodafone with TPG Telecom (M&A deal of the year 2021). He has attended Harvard University and Oxford University. He has published well over 100 publications, including the award-nominated book 'International Competition Law'. Qualifications: PhD(Law), CME(Harvard), LLM(Law), MFin(Corporate Finance), LLB(Hons), BA(Economics)(Hons), BSc, GAICD.
Zoe Lonard
Zoe Lonard is an antitrust and competition lawyer based in Sydney. Zoe advises clients on a range of competition and consumer issues, including obtaining merger clearance from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), ACCC investigations and litigation, and competition and consumer law compliance, to clients in sectors including life sciences and healthcare, financial institutions, technology, energy and resources. Prior to joining private practice, Zoe held various roles at the ACCC, including in cartel investigations and prosecutions, competition, and consumer law investigations, as well as merger investigations. Zoe also has experience as a Legal Adviser at the Competition & Markets Authority in the United Kingdom.