The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has opened an investigation of price-fixing in the country’s retail petrol industry, acting on long-standing concerns about the impact of systematic price sharing on competition.

King & Wood Mallesons has hired Ashurst’s Stephen Ridgeway as partner in its Melbourne antitrust practice.

After 10 months of investigation, Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today cleared Foxtel’s A$1.8 billion (€1.4 billion) acquisition of pay-TV rival Austar, accepting commitments offered by Foxtel last month.

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today cleared Pact Group’s purchase of Viscount Plastics – the third packaging industry merger the commission has passed in the last two weeks.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cleared Amcor’s takeover of Aperio Group without conditions, despite an initial assessment that the deal would substantially lessen competition for the supply of flexible packaging products in Australia.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cleared an alliance between Virgin Australia and regional airline Skywest, saying the combination will promote competition.

Former Gilbert + Tobin partner Nick Taylor has joined Jones Day’s antitrust practice in Sydney.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has appointed Ayman Guirguis to head its competition and regulatory practice in Sydney. Guirguis joins from Ashurst, where he was a partner for 10 years.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has initiated court proceedings against travel agency Flight Centre, over allegations the company attempted to induce competitors to take part in a price-fixing scheme.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) yesterday opened a Phase II review of Woolworths-owned Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group’s (ALH) proposed acquisition of 31 hotels and a packaged liquor licence.

Suppliers to Australia’s two dominant supermarkets have submitted complaints to Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), accusing Coles and Woolworths of “unconscionable conduct” in their efforts to compete over pricing.

Rod Sims, the chairman of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission, says that antitrust enforcers in the Asia-Pacific region have to move from friendly cooperation to entrenched partnerships in which agencies work together on merger and cartel probes. Ron Knox in Singapore