Antitrust & Competition - Australia
The Brattle Group’s Sydney office provides leading economic consulting and expert testimony on complex competition matters across Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific region. Our local competition team is supported by the firm’s global antitrust and competition practice, consistently recognised by Global Competition Review (GCR) as one of the world’s leading competition economics groups.
Our Sydney-based economists have deep experience engaging with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) across mergers, investigations, and disputes. We work closely with legal teams to deliver empirical analysis that is robust, credible, and closely aligned with regulators’ analytical frameworks and evidentiary standards.
Our experts estimate damages for a wide range of anticompetitive conduct. Leveraging deep market understanding and advanced empirical techniques, we quantify revenues, profits, and other key metrics in the counterfactual “but-for” world, delivering robust and defensible assessments of economic harm.
The Sydney competition team advises clients across the full spectrum of competition and antitrust matters, combining deep local regulatory experience with Brattle’s global bench of leading competition economists, enabling us to provide seamless support across time zones.
The Brattle Advantage
Across all competition matters, we adopt a Principal-led, client-focused approach. Our teams combine rigorous project management with flexible resourcing to deliver high-quality analysis efficiently and cost-effectively. Our analytical work is supported by highly qualified economists and dedicated data engineers who deploy advanced modelling, econometric, and data-visualisation tools to address complex evidentiary questions.
Just as importantly, we focus on clear and compelling communication. We work closely with legal teams to translate complex economic analysis into persuasive narratives that resonate with regulators, courts, and tribunals, helping our clients make their case with confidence.
Areas of Expertise
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Merger Control
We provide end-to-end economic support across the merger lifecycle, from pre-notification strategy and informal ACCC/Commerce Commission engagement through to Phase I and Phase II reviews, litigation, and remedy design. Our work addresses market definition, competitive effects, efficiencies, and counterfactuals, supported by rigorous econometric, accounting, and survey-based evidence.
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Misuse of Market Power and Exclusionary Conduct
We advise on allegations of misuse of market power, including foreclosure strategies, loyalty and rebate schemes, tying and bundling, refusals to supply, and other exclusionary practices. Our economists assess market power, the effect of the conduct on the strength of competition, and likely market outcomes under relevant counterfactual scenarios.
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Cartels and Anticompetitive Agreements
Our team supports clients and counsel in cartel investigations and proceedings involving price-fixing, market allocation, and other coordinated conduct. We provide economic analysis on liability, impact, and damages, including in follow-on litigation.
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Competition Litigation and Damages
We regularly act as testifying experts or provide expert support in competition litigation before Australian courts and tribunals. Our work includes market definition, assessing market power, examining the effect of conduct on competition, quantifying overcharges and pass-through, estimating loss and damage, and responding to opposing expert evidence.
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Market Studies and Regulatory Investigations
We assist clients involved in market inquiries and regulatory investigations by providing economic analysis of market structure, conduct, and outcomes. Our economists support submissions to regulators and help clients respond effectively to complex information requests.
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Excessive Pricing, Access, and Cost-Based Competition Issues
Drawing on Brattle’s integrated strengths in competition economics and cost analytics, we advise on excessive pricing claims, access disputes, and matters requiring detailed analysis of costs, margins, profitability, and efficiencies within a competition law framework.
