Anne is the head of the litigation department and a member of the firm's board of management. She is an experienced commercial litigator.
She specialises in competition law. She provides opinions and compliance advice on competition law issues, and regularly acts for clients who are being investigated by the Commerce Commission. She has assisted many clients to resolve claims and Commerce Commission investigations commercially, without legal proceedings being brought. She has also conducted numerous cases under the Commerce Act and Fair Trading Act.
In the regulatory area, Anne has worked closely with electricity sector and telecommunications clients in a range of High Court cases and Commerce Commission hearings. She also advises in relation to Securities Act investigations and prosecutions.
- Chambers Global Competition 2011 - Leading Lawyer
- PLC Which Lawyer? Competition/Antitrust 2010 - Leading Lawyer
Examples of Work
While many claims and Commerce Commission investigations on which Anne has worked have been resolved commercially without legal proceedings being brought, listed below are some examples of matters which have gone to court:
- Vercoe v Kordia Limited - interpretation of provisions under the Telecommunications Act
- Commerce Commission v Koppers Arch Wood Protection (NZ) Ltd - leading case on penalties for price fixing
- Bomac Laboratories Ltd v F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd - New Zealand courts' jurisdiction in claims under the Commerce Act against foreign corporations
- Commerce Commission v Roche Products (New Zealand) Ltd - successful application to strike out Commerce Commission's claims as being out of time
- Vero Insurance New Zealand Ltd v Fleet Insurance & Risk Management Ltd - successful application for injunction to prevent liquidation of a joint venture
- Commerce Commission v Westpac Banking Corp - prosecution under the Fair Trading Act for misrepresentations about credit card charges
- Commerce Commission v Senate Finance Ltd - prosecution under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act
- Forbes v Coxhead - composition of Te Wananoa O Aotearoa's governing council
- Transpower New Zealand Ltd v Meridian Energy Ltd and Transpower New Zealand Ltd v Cobb Power Ltd - precedent-setting cases on the enforcement of standard terms of supply in the electricity sector
- Mercury Energy Ltd v Transpower New Zealand Ltd - a leading case on competition law claims in the electricity sector
- Commerce Commission hearings - self-governance rules for the electricity sector
- Commerce Commission hearings - access to broadband services in the telecommunications sector
Other Credentials
- Competition Law Policy Institute - Member
