Draft the merger-notification form and supporting submission
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- Compare the lawyer's drafted answers and the collected transaction documents against every question in the ACCC short or long notification form, and produce a completeness register listing unanswered questions, missing uploads, and each market-definition or competitive-effects proposition with no source document behind it. Index the transaction documents in the form's Doc ID, description, date and parties columns; check the market-share and contact answers against the ACCC's Excel templates for those questions — market definition, year, supplier, revenue, volume and capacity for each of the three 12-month reporting periods, and a named contact with a direct email and direct number for each listed competitor and customer — and confirm the machine-readable underlying-data file is attached. Flag any estimate not identified as an estimate, any document supplied as an extract rather than a complete copy, and any material under a confidentiality claim that appears in the non-confidential summary published on the Acquisitions Register. The tool writes no part of the form and no part of the supporting submission lodged with it, because both are lodged under the one signed declaration and the tier follows the most restrictive component of this task.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer writes the answers and the market-definition and competitive-effects analysis from primary documents and the current ACCC forms and guidance. Confirm every answer, estimate and opinion is the notifying party's own and supported before an authorised person signs the declaration, because lodgement fixes the effective notification date and giving false or misleading information to the ACCC is an offence. Settle the confidentiality claims and the non-confidential summary yourself before lodgement, because the ACCC publishes that summary on the Acquisitions Register and material the notifying party treats as confidential must not appear in it.
- Written for / version
- Cth
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Potential support includes extracting and organising information and preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Confirm that the actual tool, feature and processing terms permit use of this information, including access, retention, training and disclosure conditions.
- Obtain and inspect the relevant current official register or search result. Confirm identities, interests and the date and scope of the search.
- Verify the applicable jurisdiction and the version of each relevant law, rule or instrument in force at the material time.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.