Professor Brent Fisse has over 30 years’ experience in trade practices and competition law, corporate regulation and e-commerce. Brent became a partner of Gilbert + Tobin in 1995, after acting for the firm for two years as a consultant. Since retiring from Gilbert + Tobin in 2004, Brent has run his own specialist trade practices advisory practice. He also continues to develop online compliance applications with Greg Corrigan and Tankstream Systems. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he assisted the Federal Court in running workshops on cartel offences and criminal cartel trials.  He is a leading commentator on changes to the Competition and Consumer Act.

Dr Rob Nicholls is an Associate Professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School and a Visiting Professional Fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on competition policy, the regulation of networked industries and the financial services sector with an emphasis on the effects of technology in the regulatory space. Rob has a 30-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was subsequently awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia, Rob worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent 12 years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner. He is also an accredited mediator and from 2012 to 2020 was Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator.

We look forward to bringing subscribers new and updated content in the Australian Business Law Review from Professor Brent Fisse and Dr Rob Nicholls during 2021.

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