Partners Simon Muys and Tanya Macdonald join us to ring in Australia’s new merger clearance regime – what's settled, what's still up in the air and how our clients are navigating the new world in the third but not necessarily final instalment of our webinar series. This episode may qualify for 1 CPD point depending on your jurisdiction. Plus Skarsgårds and Sarsgaards, trilogies of four or more, and our new MergerHub … All this and nothing more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

• Check out our new hub on Australia's new merger regime: what you need to know 
• Watch a video of the webinar 
• Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh's announcement of refinements to the regime 
• Skarsgårds in Murderbot on Apple TV, It: Welcome to Derry on HBO Max and Andor on Disney+ 
• Desert wildflowers in Broken Hill 
• The Matrix filming locations in Sydney 
• Try our new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword and all our other ones 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb delivers a keynote at our recent forum on the new merger framework that's just around the riverbend: why the change, how to engage with the ACCC, and what's still up in the air. Plus the Chatham chat on fees, thresholds and first-instance decision-making, an agreement on unfair trading practices, the FTC loses its case against Meta, and former chair Lina Khan's new gig in New York … All this and movie posters with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of #TheCompetitiveEdge #podcast #competitionlaw #rrrjrrr

Links:

• The complete The Rural Juror on 30 Rock
• Heraclitus/Pocahontas on social media market definitions (sing-along)
• FTC v Meta memorandum opinion
• Treasury Ministers announcement on unfair trading practices
• The Guardian on Lina Khan's new gig
• John McWhorter on mispronouncing Mamdani
• Drew Struzan and Richard Amsel movie posters
• Our new competition-law-themed cryptic crossword and all our other ones

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DPSI 10 Your Seatbelts: Kate Reader, head of the ACCC's Digital Markets Branch and G+T alum, returns to unpack the landmark Digital Platform Services Inquiry, developments in Australia and overseas and greatly exaggerated rumours about the ACCC's digital team. Plus the newest conference on the competition mafia or knitting circle's calendar, the new acquisitions register hits its stride, and a hot potato for the Wiggles … All this and merger jokes with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  [Links]  

• ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb's speech at the Australian Competition Summit 
• Julian Wright and Andrei Hagiu on Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy 
• The entire Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-25 
• Australia's lunar rover Roo-ver 
• The Wiggles on button batteries and electricity more generally 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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The new Scams Prevention Framework will kick in next year with codes of conduct and big penalties for failing to take reasonable steps to combat scams. Competition partner Jeremy Jose and Disputes and Investigations partner Antonia Garling take us through the impact on the telecommunications, digital platform and banking sectors and what this will mean for business and consumers. Plus more tweaks to the new merger process; a green light for Cuscal/Indue but last drinks for MicroStar/Konvoy in the twilight of the old regime, or mergerdämmerung; and a new prohibition on excessive pricing. All this and our upcoming forum on the new merger system with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

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Moving On Up: Non-compete and no-poach restrictions in employment contracts in the government's sights, and Special Counsels Amelia McKellar and Kaushalya Mataraaratchi explain how long-standing exceptions to the competition law could be put on gardening leave. Plus subscription traps and Amazon's Iliad flow, Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster, Treasury on AI and the ACL, ASIC and ANZ, and a new Commissioner at the ACCC … All this and M People with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

Breaking News:  

• ACCC announces decisions on two of the eight remaining old school mergers on its register, waving through Cuscal's acquisition of payment facilitation supplier Indue Limited but opposing MicroStar Logistics' acquisition of the assets of keg pooling service provider Konvoy Holdings.  

 Links:  

• M People with "Moving On Up" and Loleatta Holloway with "Love Sensation" and "Ride on Time" 
• The Final Countdown on the ACCC's public informal merger clearance register 
• MN-01019: Ampol's proposed acquisition of retail sites from EG Australia
• FTC and Amazon settle for $US2.5bn over Prime subscriptions 
• FTC takes Ticketmaster to court over resales and price and ticket limits 
• ASIC press release and press conference on ANZ agreed penalties 
• Treasury's Final Report in its review of AI and the ACL 
• G+T on Treasury's consultation on non-competes 
• ABC on the rebel R360 league and eligibility for internationals  
• Treasury and ACCC announce the new ACCC Commissioner 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 

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Kieran Pender from the Human Rights Law Centre joins us to talk about whistleblowers -- how they're protected, how they engage with regulators, the changes that could be coming, and how businesses can encourage accountability in their own culture and processes. Plus the new merger notification waiver form; firings, re-hirings and re-firings in the US antitrust agencies; Google wins, loses or draws on penalties; the ACCC's purple patch in cartel enforcement and the last informal merger reviews race for the finish line. All this and morels with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.

Breaking News:

• All three judgments and 750,000 words of the Epic Games and class action cases against Apple and Google are now available: Epic v Apple, Epic v Google and all the class action action. Justice Beach has indicated he may be up for additional reasons or judgments on the non-section 46 issues so we may yet break the million-word mark.

Links:

• G+T's analysis of the draft Waiver Notification form
• CJ John Roberts stays the Appeal Court's stay of the stay
• Young MacGyver pilot
• The District Court's penalty decision in US v Google
• ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb's address to the Competition and Consumer Workshop
• New cartel enforcement actions in cranes and cauliflower
• Commitments and understandings in the Delta and BlueScope appeals
• Fisk S02E06 - "Snitches get Riches" on ABC iView
• The last days of chez public informal merger review
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team
• Email us at [email protected]

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Partner Geoff Petersen joins us fresh from the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference with the latest on regulating infrastructure, the energy transition, competition and innovation.   Plus the Government's Economic Reform Roundtable; a second leasehold on the ACCC's acquisitions register earns a new frequently asked question; more casualties at the US antitrust agencies; and what even is a notification waiver?   All this and Sudanese cinema with  co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein of The Competitive Edge podcast.   [Links]  Breaking news:  

• Treasury has released its draft Notification Waiver form for consultation. G+T's analysis compares the draft form to the short-form notification form.  
• Allegedly former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter is back at work for now after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals found 2-1 that the administration had no likelihood of success.  

 Links:  

• The first episode of "Conference 27" on YouTube  
• Khartoum Offside on Kanopy 
• G+T on Lease Agreements on the Acquisitions Register 
• We've all been saying "Passiona" wrong 
• Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford on the DOJ and the HP-Juniper merger 
• Product placement in the Top Gun movies 
• G+T on safeguarding our energy supply 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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Productivity Commissioner Stephen King joins us to talk about regulation and innovation, data and AI, the lost decade of productivity growth, and the baptist and bootlegger issue. Plus Epic wins the first round against Apple and Google, mavericks and icepeople at the ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference, the first acquisition is notified under the new merger regime, and the long haul to the High Court for NSW Ports and the Port of Newcastle. All this and the Rock Bottom Remainders with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

• G+T on the Epic cases against Apple and Google 
• Koala Airlines' spokesmarsupial on sitting and flying 
• The ACCC's new acquisitions register ft Kongsberg Defence and the Newcastle Aerotropolis  
• Defence images of Naval and Joint Strike Missiles 
• The Productivity Commission's Five Pillars of Productivity inquiry and interim reports  
• Commencement speeches from John F Kennedy and Kermit the Frog 
• The Rock Bottom Remainders at the Miami Book Fair 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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Jennifer Fish, Economist at Charles River Associates, joins us to talk about the new merger approval process and its sharper focus on data and economic analysis, how lawyers can most effectively engage with economists, the state of hipster and hillbilly antitrust, and the representation of women in the profession. Plus the final filing fees and the near-final ACCC merger guidelines, the Final Report of the Digital Platform Services Inquiry, movie ticket surcharges and the final Fast and Furious film, the final stand of the final fired FTC Commissioner, and a surprise musical finale. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein 

• "When I'm Gone" by The Carter Family, Lulu and the Lampshades and Anna Kendrick 
• G+T on the ACCC’s analytical framework and the process for the new merger regime 
• G+T on the final filing fees and notification thresholds for the new merger regime 
• The ACCC's Digital Platform Services Inquiry 2020-25 
• The ACCC fines Dendy 1650 concession tickets for drip pricing 
• Meet the Gilbert + Tobin Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team 
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Partners Charles Coorey, Andrew Low and Liana Witt take us deeper into the new merger review process -- the filing fees, the forms and information requirements, and how to engage with the ACCC before and after notifying, with more wrinkles than Winnie the bulldog. Who gets to notify when there's a competitive bidding process? When can you claim confidentiality? How do the ACCC and FIRB work together? This is a recording of the second in our webinar series on Australia's new formal merger system which came into effect on a voluntary basis on 1 July and will be mandatory from 1 January 2026. This episode may qualify for 1 CPD point depending on your jurisdiction.

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