Australian Lawyers Weekly reports that Mallesons partner? Dave Poddar has left Mallesons Stephen Jaques to join Allen & Overy as the 18th partner since the firm’s Australian launch in February.
Joining the firm’s global competition group in Sydney, Poddar brings more than 20 years of competition and anti-trust experience in the areas of merger clearances, competition issues in concentrated markets, access matters in regulated industries (including rail, gas, electricity and telecommunications), cartel matters and general competition law.
Poddar has acted on several of Australia’s largest financial services mergers, resources takeovers and infrastructure projects in the LNG and resources areas and he is also active across Asia where a number of jurisdictions are developing their competition regulatory regimes.
