Corrs announces new partner

19 January 2010

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth is pleased to announce the promotion of Mark McCowan to partnership in our IP Technology & Competition Group in Melbourne.

Mark is a competition and trade practices law specialist with extensive experience across a range of industries. He has particular expertise in merger clearance processes and complex regulatory investigations. Mark advises on competition and consumer protection law issues arising from mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution and supply arrangements, marketing activities, market regulation and industry codes of conduct.

He has worked in the Washington DC antitrust practice of a leading US law firm and has considerable experience acting on multi-jurisdictional transactions and investigations.

Mark's experience includes:

• Acting for Johnson & Johnson in obtaining ACCC clearance for its global acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare business and its proposed acquisition of Guidant Corporation.
• Acting for Primo Smallgoods in obtaining ACCC clearance for its acquisition of Hans Continental Smallgoods. The transaction was approved on the basis of a "failing firm" argument made by Corrs, which was the first time the argument had been accepted by the ACCC in many years.
• Advising the Commonwealth Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on competition and regulatory issues arising from the NBN tender process.
• Acting for Boeing in obtaining ACCC clearance for its global acquisition of Insitu Inc, a leading global developer of unmanned aerial vehicles.