The Commercial and Regulatory Litigation team provide advice and representation to large and medium sized corporations, government and statutory authorities.
How we can help you
Our objective is to provide pragmatic, thorough, cost-effective and timely dispute resolution and litigation services for our clients in the following areas:
- Trade Practices compliance, including identifying potential breaches of the Trade Practices Act and liaising with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Trade Practices disputes
- regulatory issues including obtaining approvals from regulators, advising and acting for clients in relation to penalties and prosecutions, assisting clients under investigation by regulators and advising clients on licensing issues
- insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
- intellectual property and trademarks disputes
- alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.
Key people
 | Michael Daniel, Partner
Michael is a prominent commercial litigator specialising in trade practices and competition law. He has been involved in many high-profile commercial cases and successful mediations, and has a reputation for achieving fast, favourable and inexpensive settlements.
Michael’s clients range from multinational corporations to small and medium sized businesses. As the Chairman of the Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal, Michael enjoys representing the firm in a range of forums and helping to drive its high performance culture. |
 | David Hing, Director
David has wide experience as a commercial litigator specialising in intellectual property disputes.
David's experience extends to conducting major litigation in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia. He has advised and represented clients in major insolvency litigation, commercial contractual disputes, tortious claims, tax, administrative law and intellectual property disputes. |
 | Sophie Cockayne, Director |
