Jones Day

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Jones Day’s competition and trade team is experienced in handling Australian Competition and Consumer Commission M&A matters on a global scale. It is co-led by Prudence Smith and Matthew Bull, who are based in Sydney and Melbourne respectively. The practice handles matters emanating from a range of industries, including the aviation, media, and mining sectors. Smith has longstanding experience in acting for clients in transactional and litigation matters and has close ties to the ACCC. Bull is adept in acting for clients on M&A transactions and specialises in the energy and resources sector.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Advice is very commercially based and pragmatic.'

  • 'Prudence Smith gives extremely straight-forward and well-reasoned advice. She knows the countries she is working with very well and her advice always turns out to be accurate.' 

Key clients

  • American Airlines
  • ANA Holdings Inc

Work highlights

Advising Peabody on the pending acquisition of significant Tier 1 Australian Metallurgical coal assets from Anglo American plc for a cash consideration of up to USD3.775bn.