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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Why should you start your legal career in Australia’s leading competition, consumer and market regulation practice? Recent clerks and now team members Amy van Dongen and Elena Khoury, partners Louise Klamka and Andrew Low, and some old friends who have moved on to great things join us in this special episode. Hear what they think about the people, the opportunities and the firm’s focus on innovation and social impact.

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Partner Charles Coorey and pro bono lawyer Jessie-Grace Stephenson read the fine print on consumer protection and product safety -- from quad bikes to button batteries and how businesses can support their vulnerable customers. Plus million-dollar (maybe) fees for complex mergers in the coming merger regime, Hungry Jack's and the existential terror of Garfield, toxophilites aquiver over price-fixing in archery supplies, and a Chatham House competition conference is compliantly discussed. All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein. 

• The British Film Institute on punctuation in movie titles 
• Variety on Thunderbolts* and *The New Avengers (spoilers) 
• G+T Partner Andrew Low on digital platform reform and regulation at the Competition Law Conference 
• The burping Garfield toy and Garfield's existential terror  
• The ACCC's enforcement outcomes against Hungry Jack's and Thermomix 
• Australia's original Burger King ft Humphrey B Bear 
• The price-fixing class-action complaint against big archery 
• Treasury's consultation on proposed fees for merger clearance  
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Special Counsel Amelia McKellar joins us to talk trends and developments in antitrust, artificial intelligence and digital regulation in Asia -- what's going on in key jurisdictions and what it all means for Australia. Plus our new-look ministry and what's next for competition and regulation, a win for the ACCC in the Qteq qase and new wrinkles in the Spotless and Ventia action, steak sauce in schools and roaming commissioners in the US. All this and Humphrey's Executor with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

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Australia’s new, formal, mandatory and suspensory merger regime comes into effect on a voluntary basis on 1 July this year and will be mandatory from 1 January 2026. Join G+T partners Elizabeth Avery, Louise Klamka and Jeremy Jose for a webinar first livestreamed in April on the coming notification thresholds and waivers, the timelines, the new framing of the merger test, the long and the short of the forms – and the pieces of the puzzle still to come. And keep an eye out for the next webinar on 18 June!

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Partners Elizabeth Avery and Liana Witt report back from a very different American Bar Association Spring Meeting in Washington DC, and take us through recent upheavals in US competition and consumer law. What is the new “America First” antitrust, what does it mean for global deals, big tech and AI, and how will it impact Australia and the rest of the world? Plus digital platforms and the new regime, the ACCC bags a penalty in ocean plastics and has no truck with LDV's SUVs, and what to expect from the newly returned government …  All this and more with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  [Links]  

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In this bonus episode, we rejoin Professor Emerita Anne Twomey for more on how media is regulated at election time. How could AI be deployed in political advertising? What is misinformation anyway, and who should decide what is verifiably true or false? Can truth in political advertising be legislated? And what's the future of debate in the town square - or are we all on our own private bubble?  

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Professor Emerita Anne Twomey, constitutional law expert and G+T consultant, takes us through the regulation of elections: misinformation, disinformation and the implied freedom of political communication. Plus the new draft merger thresholds, targeted sectors and forms; the High Court's understanding of "understanding" in the ACCC's case against Hutchinson and the CFMEU; the Digital Platform Services Inquiry wraps up, and we check in on the parties' election platforms. All this and voodoo economics with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.   

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Economist and former head of  the Competition Authority of Ireland and the UK Office of Fair Trading  John Fingleton CBE  joins us from the Competition Taskforce to talk about Australia's recent and future reforms, the role of ex ante regulation and the shifting sands of antitrust in the US, the UK and Europe.  Plus competition and consumer protection in the Australian budget,  the ACCC's draft merger assessment and process guidelines, and the US agencies boycott an antitrust conference.  All this and jerseys vs guernseys with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.

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Partner Louise Klamka and Special Counsel Rebecca Dollisson take us through the risks and rewards of business cooperation, from Virgin and Qatar to the Vanilla Ice Posse. When can you talk to your competitors, when should you talk to your lawyer, and when do you need the ACCC? Plus the roadmap to the new merger clearance framework, the new scam prevention framework and some questionable consumer law limericks, why is there only one Monopolies Commission, and what is the new National Competition Policy? All this and the price of eggs with co-hosts Moya Dodd and Matt Rubinstein.  

• G+T on the transitional arrangements to the new merger control regime 
• New Scientist's monopolies commission joke joke  
• Sinead O'Connor's "No Need to Argue"  and Phoebe Bridgers's "Fake Plastic Trees" on YouTube 
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