Speakers

Steven Price is a Wellington barrister specialising in media law. He teaches at Victoria University of Wellington’s law school. He also chairs the Greenwashing committee of Lawyers For Climate Action NZ.

Simon Muys is a senior partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Competition + Regulation group. He leads G+T’s competition practice in Melbourne, covering complex merger clearance work, ACCC investigations and enforcement, competition litigation and regulatory matters, with particular regulatory expertise advising across the energy, telecommunications, resources and transport sectors.

Simon has advised on some of the largest and most complex Australian merger processes, including several deals contested before the Competition Tribunal and the Federal Court. In addition to merger clearance work and competition litigation, Simon is regarded as one of Australia’s leading advisers on third-party access, pricing and economic regulatory issues in infrastructure markets.

He is a member of the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia, the Energy and Resources Law Association (AMPLA) and is a member and former officer of the Communications and Competition Committees of the International Bar Association.

James Every-Palmer is an experienced competition and regulatory lawyer. In addition to his litigation practice, James has been engaged in a number of law reform, public policy and market design projects in the electricity, banking, dairy and telecommunications sectors. He has an LLM from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning from the University of Oxford.