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Baker McKenzie represents a range of defendants and plaintiffs, as well as advising litigation funders across a range of class actions, from shareholder to employee to product liability class actions. The global firm has the capabilities to handle both domestic and cross-border matters, and can access its network of other specialist class action lawyers from other offices across the world. Mark Chapple and Peter Lucarelli lead the class and funded actions group, and David McCredie heads the dispute resolution group in Australia and specialises in defending class actions in the healthcare and consumer goods arenas. Paul Forbes handles technology and telecoms industry disputes, and Jayme-Lyn Hendriks acts for major firms in class actions.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Georgie Farrant and Hank Jong are excellent strategic thinkers, very responsive and quickly get on top of highly technical industry issues. They are proactive, communicate complex issues clearly and very easy to work with.’

  • ‘Paul Forbes and Ryan Grant of Baker McKenzie have great technical expertise, and no task is too large.’

Key clients

  • Arrium former directors
  • CMC Markets Asia Pacific

Work highlights

Representing CMC Markets Asia Pacific (CMC) in its defence of a class action in the Federal Court of Australia brought on behalf of retail customers who entered into or acquired an interest in contracts for difference and binary options issued by CMC.
Acting in the defence of three major, related NSW Supreme Court proceedings, and in the defence of a Victorian Supreme Court class action.