Corporations

Devilish complexity is impeding the effectiveness of Australian financial services laws and regulations. Illuminating it is the Australian Law Reform Commission’s first step in a longer-term review.

Practical Law Commercial Real Estate and Practical Law Corporate Transactions have recently teamed up to create a video to share their top ten practical tips to help you excel in your next legal due diligence exercise for a buyer of an asset or business.

Practical Law has published a suite of eight new checklist guides to the current and developing laws and regulations in each Australian State and Territory that affect the valid execution and witnessing of a range of documents.

Practical Law Corporate has published two share buy-back deeds for use by companies undertaking an equal access or selective buy-back.

The Practical Law Corporate Team has published a suite of new documents relating to takeovers.

Professor Brent Fisse joins ABLR’s Editorial Board while Dr Rob Nicholls takes over as the journal’s Competition Law and Market Regulation Section Editor.

Commentary addressing the new Pt 5.3B regime of the Corporations Act 2000 (Cth) and associated precedents and prescribed forms available.

Practical Law Corporate has recently published a highly anticipated, full-length precedent agreement for the sale and purchase of 100% of the issued shares in a target proprietary company.

Financial services - landmark High Court ruling on definitions of personal and general product advice

Recent cases in the High Court of Australia (and what’s coming up).