Fred Prickett
Clayton Utz
Partner
Melbourne
Recommended Practitioner, Dispute Resolution
– The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
Overview
An experienced commercial and corporate litigator, with extensive experience in complex contractual disputes, class actions, investigations, corporations law matters including shareholder disputes, directors' duties and insider trading, financial services regulation, competition and consumer law and property and lease disputes.
Notable Work
- Myer: acted for Myer in defending the first shareholder class action to proceed to judgment in Australia.
- Toyota: acting for in large scale class actions in the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Victoria in respect of diesel vehicles.
- Tatts: acted in a nine figure dispute with the State of Victoria relating to the expiry of the licence held by Tatts to operate gaming machines in Victoria.
- ASX listed companies: acted for numerous listed companies and directors in relation to ASIC investigations and enforcement proceedings as well as related internal investigations, including into alleged breaches of directors' duties, continuous disclosure contraventions and insider trading.
- ASIC: acts in financial services regulation enforcement matters.
- Toll Holdings: acted in the litigation relating to the successful $6.1 billion takeover of Patrick Corporation by Toll, including proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court.
- RACV: acted for in an eight figure dispute in the Supreme Court of Victoria concerning the lease of its former head office.
- Centro Retail Trust: acted on its restructure, including the court approval of a $5.4 billion aggregation transaction.
- Technip: acted for the global engineering firm in complex litigation relating to civil works forming part of the Woodside Otway Gas Plant Project at Port Campbell in Victoria.
Insights
Certainty for class action funders as High Court greenlights common fund orders, but plaintiff firms miss out
6 Aug 2025 | Article
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Whistleblower protections and market disclosures: The TerraCom case unpacked
15 Jul 2025 | Article
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ASIC brings civil penalty proceedings against HSBC Australia alleging failures to adequately protect customers from scams
16 Dec 2024 | Article
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High Court ruling on foreign residents as group members in Australian class actions raises practical issues for respondents
12 Oct 2022 | Article
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ASIC looking ahead – greenwashing, climate-risk disclosures, crypto, scams and more
1 Sep 2022 | Article
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Media Release: Clayton Utz congratulates Blackstone on successful implementation of Crown Resorts scheme
24 Jun 2022 | Media Release
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The first appeals decision on a judgment in a shareholder class action and a win (of sorts) for plaintiffs
31 Mar 2022 | Article
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Australia's third judgment for a shareholder class action gives another win to listed entities
3 Mar 2022 | Article
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Long-awaited certainty as Parliament permits virtual general meetings
16 Aug 2021 | Article
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Significant reforms to the Australian continuous disclosure regime are now law: A guide for listed entities and their officers
16 Aug 2021 | Article
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Reforming Australia's litigation funding and class actions 03: continuous disclosure laws
15 Apr 2021 | Article
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Temporary COVID-19 relief for virtual shareholder meetings and continuous disclosure has now lapsed
23 Mar 2021 | Article
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High Court's call on competing class actions useful, but more reform needed to bring certainty for all parties
10 Mar 2021 | Article
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ASIC's new immunity policy for market misconduct offences benefits individuals
24 Feb 2021 | Article
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Significant proposed changes to the Corporations Act for continuous disclosure, AGMs and e-signing
22 Feb 2021 | Article
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Federal Parliament Committee releases mammoth report on Litigation Funding and Regulation of the Class Action Industry
22 Dec 2020 | Article
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Crowley v Worley Limited: The second shareholder class action judgment
29 Oct 2020 | Article
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Australia's first judgment in a shareholder class action endorses market-based causation and more
6 Mar 2020 | Article
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Class action litigation funders hit a hurdle as the High Court strikes down common fund orders
4 Dec 2019 | Article
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Are we there yet? The wait for Australia's first judgment in a shareholder class action may soon be over
27 Jun 2019 | Article
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Pfizer's bundling and rebates get a clean bill of health – do yours?
1 Jun 2018 | Article
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Harper reforms to Australian competition law in effect from today
6 Nov 2017 | Article
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