Laura Hartley - Partner
- Telephone:
- +61 2 8915 1066
- Facsimile:
- +61 2 8916 2066
- Email:
- laura.hartley@addisonslawyers.com.au
Firm Practice Areas
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate and Commercial
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Competition and Consumer Act 2010
- Marketing and Advertising
Laura is an expert in corporate, commercial and competition law with particular experience in the consumer goods industry having acted for many years for:
- Coca-Cola Australia
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Sanitarium Health Food Company
Laura's recent work includes acting for:
- Coca-Cola Australia - successfully negotiating Court-enforceable undertakings with the ACCC in relation to the "Kerry Armstrong on Motherhood and Myth-Busting" campaign
- Linde AG - successfully negotiating divestiture undertakings with the ACCC in relation to the Australian components of Linde's $14b world-wide takeover of BOC Gases
- Guthy-Renker - undertaking a Federal Court ordered 3 year audit of Guthy Renker's compliance with Part V of the Trade Practices Act
- Promentum Limited - completing a private equity buy-out via scheme of arrangement after which the then Executive Chairman of Promentum, Mr Ian Elliot, said of Laura "You've got me for life. This was a very professional job. I will always use you whenever I need legal advice."
Laura is Company Secretary of the Australian Advertising Standards Council and the Advertising Standards Bureau, the companies managing various self-regulatory codes for the advertising industry; a member of the Australasian Compliance Institute and listed in "Who's Who of Australian Women".
Laura was admitted as a solicitor in 1989, spent 15 years as a partner in DibbsBarker and has been a partner in Addisons since 2010.