Banco Chambers

Firm Details:

Head of Chambers: Robert Dick SC

Clerk of Chambers: Jeh Coutinho (Senior Clerk), and Rebecca White

Firm Overview:

Located in Sydney, Australia, Banco Chambers is recognised as one of Australia’s leading sets. Its 60 barristers (including 24 Silks) are known for providing client focused service and advice and advocacy that is clear, commercial, and effective.

Banco Chambers’ barristers appear in courts and tribunals throughout Australia and in arbitrations seated domestically, in South East Asia, North America, and Europe. They are routinely retained by leading Australian and international law firms to run many of Australia’s most complex, largest, and high profile cases. Current and previous clients include Google, Meta, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, The Star Entertainment Group, Consolidated Press Holdings, Kraft Foods, IOOF, Kimberly Clark, Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, Nissan, Tabcorp, Optus, Vodafone, BHP, Hancock Prospecting, Lendlease, Woolworths, CSR, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, other companies of all sizes, individuals and institutions. Briefs are also accepted directly from in-house counsel.

Banco Chambers was established in 2004 under the leadership of Justin Gleeson SC and has since grown into a chambers of almost 60 barristers from a diversity of backgrounds, all practising from our premises at 60 Martin Place in the heart of Sydney’s legal district.

Main Areas of Practice:

Arbitration

Class Actions

Commercial Litigation

Competition & Consumer law

Construction & Infrastructure

Corporations

Defamation & Media

Insolvency

Insurance and reinsurance

Professional Negligence

Public, Administrative and Constitutional Law

Tax & Revenue

Significant recent example cases include:

Capic v Ford Motor Company - Significant class action against Ford in relation to defective powershift gearboxes (Justin Gleeson SC, Fiona Roughley SC, Peter Strickland)

Rinehart Family Litigation (Chris Withers SC, Adam Hochroth, Tim Rogan, Luca Moretti, Peter Brereton SC, Christopher Mitchell, Kate Lindeman)

Epic Games v Apple Inc and Google - Landmark case brought against Apple alleging misuse of market power (Cameron Moore SC, Ruth Higgins SC, Robert Yezerski SC, Anais d'Arville, Peter Strickland, Kate Lindeman)

Independent Gaming & Liquor Authority Inquiry into Star Casino and resulting ASIC proceedings (Kate Richardson SC, Ruth Higgins SC)

ANZ Bank & Suncorp Bank v ACCC - Competition Tribunal Proceedings concerning $4.9 billion merger (Ruth Higgins SC, Cameron Moore SC, Robert Yezerski SC, Christopher Tran, Kate Lindeman, Tim Rogan, Peter Strickland, Megan Caristo, Erin O'Connor Jardine).

Hunt Leather v State of NSW - Significant class action arising from interruption to businesses caused by the construction of the Sydney Light Rail project (Adam Hochroth)

Significant litigation in relation to widespread defects and an LNG plant in the Northern Territory where damages claimed run to the billions of dollars (Ruth Higgins SC, Nick Bender SC, Harriet Lenigas)

ACCC v Qantas - Regulatory proceedings concerning promotion and availability of cancelled flights (Ruth Higgins SC and Robert Yezerski)

Devas v India - Proceedings concerning the enforcement of an ICSID arbitral award (Justin Gleeson SC and Fiona Roughley SC)

Uber Class Action - Major class action involving a claim for the tort of conspiracy to inflict economic harm on taxi industry participants (John Sheahan KC, David Sulan SC, Robert Yezerski SC)