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Lisa Emanuel

Biography

Lisa is an experienced antitrust specialist who helps businesses navigate complex transactions and fast changing regulatory environments.

She focuses on strategic, cross border merger control and large regulatory investigations and enforcement action across a variety of industries, including digital platforms, energy and resources and financial services. Lisa brings highly commercial, specialist advice and deep sector expertise to a range of business structures and transactions, including M&A, joint ventures and other collaborative arrangements. She also helps her clients with the full range of dealings with antitrust regulators, including merger review, market studies and enforcement action.

Practice areas

  • Antitrust
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Complex commercial transactions
  • Antitrust litigation
  • Disputes
  • Global employment and compensation
  • Public company advisory and corporate governance

Sectors

  • Consumer and retail
  • Banks

Selected experience

  • A multinational technology company on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s 5-year Digital Platform Services Inquiry.
  • IOOF on its acquisition of MLC’s wealth management business.
  • United Overseas Bank on its acquisition of Citi’s consumer banking franchises in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • Alinta Energy on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s National Electricity Market Inquiry and the Australian East Coast Gas Inquiry.
  • A multinational technology company on the Headquarters for Digital Market Competition’s (DMCH) inquiry into mobile ecosystems in Japan.
  • A multinational technology company on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Advertising Services Inquiry.
  • Nutreco on its acquisition of Ridley’s extrusion facility in Tasmania.

Education

  • LLB BA, University of New South Wales, 2001

Admissions

  • Admitted as a Solicitor (Australia), 2002