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  • Amanda Bodger

    Partner
    Melbourne
    T: +61 3 9643 4069
    M: +61 419 791 134
 

 Professional Biography

 

  • Amanda Bodger is a Partner in our Melbourne office where she specialises in competition law, consumer protection and marketing law and product liability. She also heads the firm's competition team.

    Amanda acts for a number of major corporations including Telstra, National Australia Bank, Holden and Australia Post.

    She is a frequent presenter of trade practices law seminars both in-house and at external seminars, and for clients relating to developments in trade practices law (legislative and cases), compliance programs and advertising law.

    Amanda is consistently recommended as a leading Competition/Antitrust lawyer in Australia by legal surveys and directories including PLC Which Lawyer?, Chambers Global Guide and Best Lawyers International (Australia).

    Chambers Global Guide 2009 described Amanda as "a commercially focused and proficient lawyer".
 

 Experience

 
  • 1986: Bachelor of Science (Majoring in Computer Science) and Laws (First Class Hons), Monash University, Melbourne
  • 1987: Law Clerk, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne
  • 1994: Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne, receiving First Class Hons in Advanced Restricted Trade Practices, Trade Marks and Copyright
  • 1996: Seconded to Telstra Corporation as Competition Law Counsel
  • 1996 - 2012: Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne
  • 2012 - present: Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • Establishing a trade practices compliance program in accordance with AS-3806 for a major financial services provider and ongoing advice in relation to that program
  • Establishing and ongoing involvement in advertising approvals processes for core clients to ensure all advertising materials comply with the law
  • Competition law aspects of the Reuters acquisition of One Equity (Telerate)
  • Regular and ongoing consumer protection advice and competition law advice for Telstra
  • Advice and compliance work in relation to the Unfair Terms regime under the Fair Trading Act (Vic)
 

 Professional Memberships

 
  • Trade Practices Committee of the Business Law Section
  • Admitted in NSW and Victoria
  • Victorian Society for Computers and the Law
  • Association for Compliance Professionals Australia