In-Person CPD Event |
DMAW Lawyers' office
Level 10, 81 Flinders Street,
Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC Australia
CPD Points: 1.0 CPD point - Professional Skills
Session Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Networking, Nibbles & Drinks commence at 4:30pm
ACC Australia invites you to join us for our exclusive CPD session, Regulatory Priorities 2026 and Beyond: ACCC Enforcement Outlook with our sponsors DMAW Lawyers and special guest experts, Matt Murphy (Anthony Mason Chambers), Tammy Harrington (Elders) and Kate Durand (ACCC).
The session will be facilitated by Patrick Kerin, a Principal in DMAW Lawyers’ disputes team and feature expert panellists:
• Paul Dugan – Consultant for DMAW Lawyers’ disputes team and competition and consumer law expert
• Matt Murphy – Barrister at Anthony Mason Chambers who acts regularly in competition and consumer law cases
• Tammy Harrington – General Manager Business Development at Elders
• Kate Durand – Director at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
With the ACCC’s compliance and enforcement priorities evolving year to year, in-house legal teams need to remain alert to regulatory trends that could shape their operations, contracts and risk exposure.
This session will explore key areas of focus for the ACCC in FY 25/26, unpacking what these priorities could mean in practice for businesses navigating a dynamic competition and consumer law landscape. Attendees will hear insights from a commercial legal expert, an independent barrister, an industry representative from Elders, and a Director from the ACCC, offering practical context on regulatory expectations, industry behaviours under scrutiny, and how enforcement strategies are likely to play out.
The panel will consider how in-house teams can respond — including proactive steps to ensure legal, compliance and commercial functions are aligned when it comes to regulatory readiness.
This session will equip you with the practical insights needed to anticipate enforcement risks, respond to regulatory change, and strengthen internal readiness for the year ahead.
Speakers
Paul Dugan, Consultant, DMAW Lawyers
Paul is a consultant in DMAW Lawyers’ disputes practice with extensive experience in:
• providing advice to, and representing, clients in competition and consumer law matters including ACCC inquiries, ACCC proceedings, consumer law disputes, merger and acquisition clearances and ACCC authorisations;
• industrial relations and workplace law – from executive contracts and workplace agreements and policies to industrial disputes, dismissals, bullying, harassment and discrimination investigations and claims and discrimination payment claims and post termination restraints;
• risk management advice and the investigation and resolution of corporate, commercial and insurance issues and disputes;
• privacy, data and cyber/information security and response;
• insolvency administrations – including investigations, pursuit of recoveries and the rights and obligations of insolvency practitioners, debtors, creditors, directors and shareholders.
Paul was recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia™ 2026 for his work in Labour and Employment Law, Litigation and Occupational Health and Safety Law. 
Matt Murphy, Barrister, Anthony Mason Chambers
Before being called to the independent bar in 2015, Matt was a senior associate at Thomson Geer with more than nine years’ experience working across Dispute Resolution, Competition and Consumer law and Intellectual Property and Information Technology law.
Matt has advised and advocated on a range of dispute and litigious matters encompassing areas such as anti-competitive practices, consumer protection, compliance, trade mark infringement, patent infringement, IP licensing and copyright.
In addition to his specialist areas above, Matt regularly appears before all State Courts and the Federal Court across a broad range of litigious matters including (but not limited to) general commercial disputes, probate & inheritance, building & construction and property disputes.
Matt is a sessional member of the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Tammy Harrington – General Manager Business Development at Elders
Tammy is the General Manager of Business Development at Elders and leads the organisation’s national acquisition strategy, with a focus on driving growth and expanding Elders’ geographic and product footprint. With more than 20 years’ experience in finance and accounting, including 15 years with Elders, she brings deep commercial insight to complex growth initiatives.
Tammy has executed and integrated more than 20 bolt-on acquisitions, including Delta Agribusiness, developing extensive expertise in strategic evaluation, disciplined transaction processes, and effective stakeholder engagement.
She works closely with operational and corporate teams across the business, building strong partnerships to support negotiation, value creation, and long-term integration outcomes. In addition to her acquisition work, Tammy plays a key role in shaping Elders’ broader growth strategy, ensuring opportunities are pursued with commercial rigour and alignment to organisational priorities.
Tammy is passionate about fostering strong relationships, navigating multifaceted negotiations, and delivering strategic results through thoughtful integration and sustainable expansion. 
Kate Durand, Director, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Kate Durand is a Director in the Consumer and Fair Trading Division of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, where she leads teams conducting complex consumer protection and fair trading investigations. Since joining the ACCC in 2018, Kate has held senior roles across the Competition and Consumer Law Unit and the Cartels Branch, leading investigations into cartel conduct and other anti-competitive behaviour.
Prior to the ACCC, Kate worked in private practice and spent more than 12 years with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions as a Senior and Principal Federal Prosecutor, specialising in complex fraud, white-collar crime and proceeds of crime matters, and leading multidisciplinary prosecution teams.
Facilitator
Patrick Kerin, Principal, DMAW Lawyers
Patrick is a principal in DMAW Lawyers’ disputes team and is an experienced commercial dispute resolution lawyer with a broad ranging practice. He has extensive skills in all forms of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including litigation, expert determination, and arbitration.
Patrick regularly acts in competition and consumer law disputes arising under the Competition and Consumer Act, the Australian Consumer Law, and at common law.
Patrick represents a number of clients in the building, construction, and project industry. In addition to his dispute resolution practice, he performs front-end advisory work for the firm’s commercial construction clients, involving contract drafting, negotiation, risk advice and management, and project life cycle management.
Patrick regularly acts as solicitor and counsel in the various State and Federal Courts and Tribunals. He is committed to guiding clients through complex legal processes with a strategic and commercially pragmatic approach.
Patrick was recognised in Doyle's Guide as a Leading Construction & Infrastructure Lawyer in South Australia for 2025, 2024 and 2023, after being recognised as a rising star in 2022.
Notes
*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration.
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