Prudence Smith

Partner, Jones Day

Prudence Smith's practice is focused on competition and regulatory law. Drawing on her many years as an officer within the Australian competition regulator, she is able to help clients achieve favorable outcomes in contentious matters. She advises and represents clients in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore (with locally registered Jones Day lawyers), and throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Prudence advises clients on a broad range of competition law issues, including cartel and anticompetitive conduct investigations, authorizations, and notifications. She also regularly advises on significant and complex merger clearances and joint ventures, including many cross-jurisdictional transactions. She has in-depth experience in complex competition and consumer litigation and is regularly sought out by clients that are facing significant and complex private litigation issues involving competition law (such as private actions for anticompetitive conduct, including refusal to deal or misuse of market power) or misleading and deceptive conduct representations. Prudence is also often called on by clients who have received a statutory notice from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for the production of evidence or who are the subject of a search warrant.

Prudence is experienced in representing clients before the ACCC, Australian Energy Regulator (AER), Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Office of Drug Control (ODC), Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC), and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC).