Henry Lynch

Henry is a lawyer specialising in competition, consumer and disputes based in the Sydney office of Webb Henderson.

Henry acts in large, multi-party commercial disputes and regularly advises senior and C-Suite management on a range of complex legal issues. He acts for public and private sector clients, including regulators, large corporations, and senior directors, officers and executives. He also has considerable experience working as an embedded member of large in-house legal teams.

Some of Henry’s recent experience includes:

• Successfully defending the former Chairman of an ASX-listed mining company in civil penalty proceedings commenced by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the Federal Court of Australia.
• Acting for an Australian app developer in Federal Court of Australia proceedings against Meta Platforms, Inc. and related entities arising from alleged contraventions of the Competition and Consumer Act.
• Negotiating a favorable settlement on behalf of a large multinational professional services network in response to allegations of breach of contract, negligence, and contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law by one of Australia’s largest customer-owned banks.
• Regularly advising the Australian arm of one of the world’s largest multinational consumer goods companies on the full suite of its competition, consumer and regulatory obligations in Australia and New Zealand.

Henry has been recognised as a rising star in the profession and has twice been shortlisted in the Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Awards. He regularly contributes to LexisNexis’s Inhouse Counsel publication and has been published in the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law. He has also co-authored several articles in LexisNexis’s Practical Guidance series.

Henry was first admitted to practice in 2021. He holds a BA/LLB from the University of Sydney and is admitted to practice in New South Wales, the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.