Specialist competition and regulatory law firm Matthews Law has promoted senior lawyer Gus Stewart to Special Counsel.  

Gus is a senior commercial lawyer specialising in competition, regulatory, and consumer law. He is a trusted advisor to domestic and international clients, including listed and Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to advisory work, Gus has been involved in a significant volume of regulatory investigations (including the Commerce Commission’s public real estate and livestock price fixing cases) and recently appeared as junior counsel on a high-profile Commerce Commission Fair Trading Act prosecution.

Gus has previously worked in the Competition & Regulatory and TMT teams at trans-Tasman law firm Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, and as an in-house counsel at network operator 2degrees.