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Andrew Rankin

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Andrew Rankin
Partner

Brisbane

+61 7 3220 7741

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Andrew Rankin is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with a career spanning more than 25 years. Based in Brisbane, he has an exceptional reputation for his expertise in competition and consumer law, and his practice also includes mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance law. Andrew advises both private companies and publicly listed companies and has particularly strong experience in acting for clients in the financial services, health and life sciences, mining and agribusiness sectors.

Over many years Andrew has provided competition and consumer law advice and training to many private sector and government clients, advising them on their obligations under the legislation and how they should interact with their competitors, suppliers and customers. He advises on restrictive trade practices drawing from his extensive knowledge of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA) and Australian Consumer Law. He has built a productive working relationship with the ACCC, successfully representing many clients in dealings and applications to the ACCC in relation to anti-competitive behaviour. Andrew is a respected member of the Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Law committee, and his expertise in this area has been consistently recognised in the Best Lawyers Australia each year since 2012. He was also named ‘Brisbane Lawyer of the Year’ for Competition Law in the 2022 edition.

Andrew also has extensive experience in working with national and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, due diligences, capital raisings and business ventures. His expertise includes take-overs, schemes of arrangement, cross-border acquisitions, corporate restructurings and company divestments. He advises boards on directors’ duties and corporate governance issues. His commercial practice includes advising on commercial agreements, joint venture and shareholder agreements, supply contracts and the unfair contract terms regime. Best Lawyers Australia and the Doyle’s Guide have recognised Andrew in these areas of law, reflecting this additional depth of expertise.

Highly respected by his clients, they appreciate Andrew’s knowledge and expertise, coupled with his commercial acumen, clear communication skills, attention to detail and professionalism.

Expertise

Services

Capital Markets & Capital Raisings

Commercial Contracts

Competition & Consumer

Corporate & Commercial

Corporate Governance

Foreign Investment & Trade

Mergers & Acquisitions

Privacy & Data Protection

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Regulatory Compliance & Investigations

Unfair Contract Terms

Sectors

Aged Care & Senior Living

Agriculture & Food

Education

Health & Life Sciences

Not-for-Profit

Oil & Gas

Transport & Logistics

Recognition

‘Andrew was a very steadying person, calm and collected at all stages. We felt very safe in his hands.’
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific: Corporate and M&A, 2020 edition – Testimonials

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Memberships

  • Law Council of Australia, Business Law Section – Competition and Consumer Committee, Brisbane
  • Law Council of Australia, Business Law Section – Corporations Committee, Brisbane

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