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Peter McDonald
Biography
Peter is co-managing partner of Australia and leads and coordinates the A&O Shearman competition team in the APAC region.
Peter specialises in challenging competition law, consumer and regulatory issues. His expertise encompasses transactional advice, merger clearances, joint ventures and collaborations, access to infrastructure, and enforcement responses and defence. Peter has extensive experience in a wide range of sectors, and has advised leading organizations such as Macquarie Group, Google, Chevron, Alinta, Woodside, BHP, Dulux Group, BUPA, Asahi, North West Shelf Venture, George Weston Foods, Sumitomo, Reckitt, PEXA and Fortescue. Peter is recognized as a leading individual in all major directories. Prior to joining the firm, Peter worked as a senior officer at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Practice areas
- Antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Disputes
- Antitrust litigation
- White-collar defense and global investigations
Sectors
- Consumer and retail
- Energy
- Banks
- Infrastructure and transport
- Aviation
- Mining and metals
- Technology
- Communications media and entertainment
Selected experience
- Asahi Beverages on its proposed acquisition of CUB.
- 21st Century Fox on its proposed sale to The Walt Disney Company.
- Woodside on responding to ACCC gas industry inquiries in Eastern Australia and associated investigations.
- Alinta on responding to the ACCC electricity and gas industry inquiries.
- PEXA on a range of ongoing ACCC and market regulatory issues.
- Illyria/Lachlan Murdoch in the proposed acquisition of the free to air TV network Ten.
- Bradken on its takeover by Hitachi.
- Allnex and Advent in its acquisition of resin manufacture Nuplex (including merger control analysis across the APAC region).
- Tullett Prebon in its acquisition of the inter-dealer broking business of ICAP (including clearances in Australia and Singapore).
- Chinese SoE StateGrid in its bids for large scale energy infrastructure assets in Australia.
Education
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma in Economics, Australian National University
Admissions
- Admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales Registered foreign lawyer in the UK SRA