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Matthew Bull
Matthew Bull
Matthew Bull has more than 25 years of experience advising clients on all aspects of competition, regulatory, and consumer law. He has worked on a multitude of merger clearances, joint ventures and collaborations, and enforcement matters involving financial services, beverages, transportation, construction, natural resources, digital platforms, wine grapes, and the dairy industry. Matt is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Competition and Consumer Committee, and co-edited the market definition chapter in the leading CCH textbook Australian Competition Law.
Borja Carpintero
Borja Carpintero
Borja's core areas of specialisation are capital markets and banking. He has been involved in several aspects of capital markets transactional and regulatory work, including a variety of international transactions such as debt issues, securitisations and other complex structure finance transactions. Borja joined Simmons & Simmons in 2007 and he is a member of the Financial Markets Group. He advises financial institutions, including commercial and investment banks, on debt capital market transactions. He has particular expertise in advising issuers and arrangers on MTN and ECP Programmes, repackagings, securitisations, within others.
Alex Chalk
Alex is currently serving as Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice and is the former HM Solicitor General for England & Wales. He was formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice. Prior to his election as the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham, Alex prosecuted and defended in the most serious cases, including terrorist bomb plots, international fraud, multi-handed rape cases and murder. Instructing solicitors have included the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority, and Alex has provided pro bono advice – including to Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prisoner of conscience held captive in Iran. Alex is not accepting any work while in office as the Solicitor General.
Prudence Smith
Prudence Smith
Prudence Smith's practice is focused on competition, consumer and regulatory law. Drawing on many years at the Australian competition and consumer law regulator, she is able to help clients achieve favorable outcomes. She advises and represents clients in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore (with locally registered Jones Day lawyers), and throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on a broad range of competition law issues, including cartel and anticompetitive conduct investigations, authorizations, and notifications, as well regulatory issues including Spam Act and AML compliance. She also regularly advises on significant and complex merger clearances and joint ventures, including many cross-border transactions. She has in-depth experience in complex competition and consumer litigation and is regularly sought out by clients that are facing significant and complex regulatory and private litigation issues involving competition law (such as private actions for anticompetitive conduct, including refusal to deal or misuse of market power) or misleading and deceptive conduct representations. Prudence is also often called on by clients who have received a statutory notices for the production of evidence or who are the subject of a search warrant.