About Alex Tolliday
Alex is a commercial litigator and co-lead of the firm's class actions practice. For almost 20 years he has defended a broad range of the most significant class actions filed in Australia, including shareholder, product liability, consumer, investor, cartel and mass tort proceedings commenced across the state and federal courts. Alex is regularly sought out to defend Australian class actions that arise in the context of global litigation and regulatory risk, and frequently provides pre-litigation advice to companies navigating a class action risk scenario.
In addition to his class action practice, Alex has extensive experience acting in a wide range of complex commercial disputes and high-profile regulatory investigations for clients across the banking and financial services, mining, infrastructure, industrials and technology, media and telecommunications sectors.
He is a well-known thought leader on class actions and is widely recognised for his litigation and class action expertise by legal directories, including the Legal 500.
Alex's recent class actions experience includes:
- defending a multinational industrials company in shareholder class action proceedings relating to earning guidance disclosures
- defending a global investment bank in cartel class action proceedings associated with the alleged manipulation of foreign exchange rates
- defending the largest general insurance company in Australia in shareholder class action proceedings relating to disclosures associated with the provisioning for potential insurance claims
- defending a multinational automotive company in product liability class action proceedings concerning the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law
- defending a division of a major retail bank in class action proceedings associated with the termination of former franchisees
- defending a multinational gold mining company in shareholder class action proceedings relating to gold production guidance disclosures
- defending a trustee of a superannuation fund in consumer class action proceedings associated with income protection insurance premiums
- defending a major retail bank and two insurers in consumer class action proceedings associated with the design and distribution of credit card and personal loan insurance policies
- defending a global luxury river cruise and tour company in class action proceedings concerning the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law
- defending a major retail bank in class action proceedings brought by investors in a Ponzi scheme.