Presenters

Anna Ryan, Partner, Lane Neave
Anna specialises in corporate and commercial law and leads Lane Neave’s competition law team. She routinely advises on the Commerce Act, Fair Trading Act and all aspects of competition and consumer law. Anna is also the principal contact for Lane Neave’s intellectual property practice and acts on a wide range of trade mark, copyright and other intellectual property matters. Anna holds a Masters Degree from the University of Melbourne in Competition and Consumer Protection Law, and Chairs the Advisory Board of the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand. She also Chairs the Board of the Canterbury Society of Arts, which operates CoCA, Christchurch’s Contemporary Art Gallery.

Jennifer Hambleton, Partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Jennifer is a competition and consumer law specialist and general commercial litigator. Jennifer regularly advises clients on compliance with the Commerce Act and Fair Trading Act and the implications of commercial terms such as warranties and indemnities, termination rights, restraints of trade and confidentiality. She has significant experience acting for clients on merger clearance applications, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions. Jennifer returned to New Zealand in 2016 after almost 10 years in Australia where she worked in the competition teams at several leading Australian firms. During that time, she represented both commercial clients and regulators in regulatory investigations and complex disputes in the Federal and Supreme Courts and the Australian Competition Tribunal.