Dave Poddar
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 3 : Competition/Antitrust
Band 3
About
Provided by Dave Poddar
Practice Areas
• Antitrust and competition
• Tech, media and telecommunications, particularly antitrust and competition issues related to those sectors
• Disputes and investigations
• Foreign investment
Career
https://quaylaw.com/dave-poddar/
Professional Memberships
• Law Council of Australia, Competition & Consumer Committee (Dave is a past Chair of that Committee)
• Advisory Board of the International Bar Association Antitrust Committee (Dave is a past Co-Chair of that Committee)
Clients
• Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC Group).
• Glencore Australia
• Lactalis Australia
• CBH Group
• Oracle Corporation
• GUD Holdings
• Bunnings Group
• Australian Vintage
• Universal Studios
• Free TV Australia
• Commercial Radio & Audio
• Warner Bros Discovery
• Eutelsat OneWeb
Work Highlights
Mergers and acquisitions:
• Bunnings on various acquisitions in the hardware, home improvement and outdoor leisure sector including the acquisitions of Adelaide Tools and Beaumont Tiles in 2021
• BGC in its acquisition of Midland Brick in 2020/2021
• Acting for AMA Group in its purchase from SunCorp of Capital SMART Smash repair business and ACM Parts for A$440m in 2019
• Oracle Corporation A$1.6 billion acquisition of Aconex Limited in 2018
• Allied Mills on its A$455 million sale to Pacific Equity Partners by Graincorp and Cargill in 2017
• Cristal in obtaining an unconditional ACCC clearance in its US$1.673 billion titanium dioxide merger with Tronox
• GE on its US$3.415 billion sale of Water to Suez in 2017
• GE on its US$32 billion creation of an oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2017
• GE on the Australian aspects of its US$17 billion acquisition of Alstom’s energy assets
• GE on the Australian antitrust aspects of its US$1 billion acquisition of Thermo Fisher’s cell culture business in Australia
• Shell on its A$343 million sale of its Australian aviation fuels unit to Viva Energy in December 2016
• Shell on the antitrust aspects of the A$2.9 billion sale of its downstream business in Australia
• ICAP plc in relation to Tullett Prebon’s A$1.5 billion acquisition of its global voice hybrid broking business in 2016
• Sumitomo on its acquisition of a A$1 billion / 51% interest with Glencore in the Clermont Coal Mine
• Mondelez on its A$460 million sale of its Vegemite and cheese business to Bega Cheese in 2017.
Regulatory investigations:
• antitrust and consumer protection litigation in the Federal Court and High Court of Australia
• regulatory investigations including relating to civil and criminal cartel investigations and misuse of market power
• acting for stakeholders in Senate and ACCC inquiries.
Joint ventures, alliances and access matters:
• Glencore on its application for the declaration of the channel at the Port of Newcastle
• Emirates on its partnership with Qantas and the associated authorisations and regulatory approvals processes on a global basis
• Port Waratah Coal Terminal on the authorisation of its long term infrastructure arrangements at the Port of Newcastle
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Dave Poddar of Quay Law Partners in Sydney covers the full range of competition mandates, including international merger clearances, cartel cases and high-stakes infrastructure access matters.