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Baker McKenzie
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC AustraliaIn this session, Baker McKenzie’s Competition & Consumer Partners Georgina Foster, Helen Joyce and Lynsey Edgar will discuss best practice and provide you with practical tips for responding to ACCC investigations. The presentation will cover issues such as managing a dawn raid, responding to a section 155 notice, preparing for a compulsory examination, privilege and the enforcement options available to the ACCC. The presentation will provide an update on recent cases, and suggest strategies for in-house counsel when dealing with the regulator.
Speakers
Georgina is a leading merger clearance lawyer. She also regularly advises clients on competition law issues relating to joint ventures and strategic alliances, cartel conduct, as well as pricing and distribution strategies. She has significant experience in representing clients in ACCC investigations into alleged contraventions of Australian competition and consumer laws, including acting for immunity applicants. She also regularly assists clients with competition and consumer law compliance programs.
Helen has extensive commercial litigation experience, advising clients on a broad range of matters including complex contractual disputes, competition, white collar fraud and regulatory investigations, and schemes of arrangement. In addition to her skills as a litigator, Helen has extensive experience representing clients in formal and informal negotiations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration.
Lynsey's practice focuses on competition investigations, enforcement litigation and regulatory matters. She assists clients with complex merger clearances, advises on highly technical aspects of competition/antitrust law, and has a particular expertise in cartels including immunity applications.
Lynsey also advises on consumer issues including misleading and deceptive conduct, consumer guarantees, advertising, unconscionable conduct, and compliance with the Australian Consumer Law.
Lynsey has significant experience defending clients facing investigations by regulators, particularly the ACCC, and assists clients to effectively resolve commercial disputes involving competition and consumer law claims.
Notes
*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration.
*Please note this is a members only event.
*Please note that registrations are managed directly through Baker McKenzie. Please let ACC Australia know if you have not received your confirmation email within 24 hours, as this will affect your ability to access the webinar.
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