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Zac practises in commercial litigation, particularly in the areas of competition and consumer law, trade practices, corporations and securities and tax. 

Before coming to the Bar, Zac was in-house counsel and managing director of Uber’s international trading and holding companies. Some recent matters in which Zac has been briefed include:

Regulatory

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Trivago N.V. (No 2) [2022] FCA 417

Trivago N.V. v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2020] FCAFC 185 

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Trivago N.V. [2020] FCA 16 

Merger review - proposed acquisition by Bunnings Group Limited 

Commercial

Instagram Inc v Dialogue Consulting Pty Ltd [2022] FCAFC 7

Dialogue Consulting Pty Ltd v Instagram, Inc (No 2) [2021] FCA 1322 

Dialogue Consulting Pty Ltd v Instagram, Inc [2020] FCA 1846 

Shareholder class action against ASX listed company GetSwift Limited

Memberships -- member of the Law Council of Australia's Digital Commerce Committee.

  

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Admitted

18 Feb 2005

Bar

26 Oct 2017

Areas of Expertise

    Commercial 5 Areas

    • Banking and Finance
    • Competition and Consumer Law
    • Contractual Disputes
    • Insurance and Professional Negligence
    • Intellectual Property

    Bankruptcy and Insolvency

    Corporations Law

    International 1 Areas

    • International Commercial Arbitration

    Public Administrative

    Tax Revenue

    Technology and Media Law

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