Overview
Freehills’ Competition and Market Regulation group works with leading client organisations on their most challenging competition and regulatory issues. Using our extensive legal experience, and strong relationships with leading economists and industry experts, we work with you to understand the risks facing your business and the options available to find a solution.
One of our greatest strengths is our unparalleled relationships at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and other regulatory bodies. Freehills is recognised as having one of the premier, and truly national, competition and market regulation practices in Australia.
- First-tier ranking
Asia Pacific Legal 500 2006-2007
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007
Global Competition Review Country Survey Australia – July 2007 - Five partners listed as leading individuals
Chambers Global Guide 2007 - Three partners listed as leading/highly recommended
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007 - Three partners listed in the 2006 Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers
Legal Media Group
Our expertise
Our clients receive the benefit of our team’s extensive experience in all aspects of competition law and market regulation across diverse industries, including financial services, energy and resources, transport and logistics, health and pharmaceuticals. Drawing together the skills and experience of some of Australia’s leading authorities in competition and market regulation, we provide our clients with strategic, analytical and innovative advice.
Our areas of practice are:
Understanding your needs
Obtaining and maintaining an edge on your rivals is critical to your business. So, when important competition law and regulatory issues arise, we understand that you want high quality, clear and commercial advice.
Our approach involves:
- Excellence and intellectual rigor — we ensure our clients’ interests are best served by providing legal solutions based on a rigorous approach to the law and an understanding of regulatory and economic principles.
- Practical application and results — we recognise that the law is only one element of an overall equation. We help you to provide practical and commercial results.
- Proven experience and necessary knowledge — our team is made up of experts who have successfully applied their skills in a variety of industries and contexts.
- Managing the regulatory process — we offer access to, and a ready-made relationship with, decision-makers in the ACCC and other market regulators. We help you manage, understand and influence the regulatory process.
What others say about us
- ‘The Freehills team with market leader Bob Baxt continues to provide cutting edge contentious and advisory advice.’ (PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007)
- ‘A number of highly respected practitioners are considered to have upheld the firm’s profile in the field.’ (Chambers Global Guide 2007)
- ‘Energetic and a pleasure to work with.’ (Chambers Global Guide 2007)
- Bob Baxt is the ‘elder statesman of Australian competition law’ (Who’s Who Legal 2006), a ‘long-standing expert in competition law and policy’ (PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007), and is ‘hugely experienced’ (Chambers Global Guide 2007).
- Paul Hughes is a ‘highly-recognised competition law expert’ (PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007), and gives ‘quick, well-thought-out advice’ (Chambers Global Guide 2007).
- ‘Chris Jose “gets the job done and gets us the results we want.”’ (Chambers Global Guide 2006)
- ‘Clients consider Michael Gray’s corporate support skills to be essential to the smooth running of any transaction’ (Chambers Global Guide 2007) and he ‘is recommended for his high-quality, practical advice’ (Asia Pacific Legal 500 2006-2007).
- Don Robertson is ‘[r]ecognised for the strength of his competition litigation skills in particular.’ (PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007)
Keep up-to-date
Our clients keep up-to-date with this area of law by using a range of our complimentary services, including a regular newsletter. Our newsletter articles provide detailed analyses of current issues in competition law and policy.