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Back to basics: Managing supply chain risk from an Australian product liability perspective
Allens Partners Phillip Cornwell Michael Ryan and Ben Farnsworth were part of the global panel analysing the project finance market including key economies regional analysis and PPPs In Getting the Deal Throughs second annual issue focusing on the global project finance markets Phillip Michael and ...
Capturing value - NSW's ambitious infrastructure programme
Allens Partners Paul Kenny and Tim Stewart hosted a roundtable with the NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian in Sydney involving fund managers and financiers to talk about how the private and public sector can work together to deliver on NSWs ambitious infrastructure programme ...
Workplace Relations
We look at what reasonable management action is when a complaint will be in relation to employment the personal liability of human resources managers and other senior employees the FWCs approach to dismissals resulting from serious safety breaches and the validity of a safety regulators directive ...
Positive guidance on negative control?
Draft guidance targeting the infrastructure industry particularly in the context of stapled property trust and operating company structures frequently used in infrastructure projects has been released Partner Charles Armitage Managing Associate Judith Taylor and Lawyer David Lewis report ...
Fact sheet: The term sheet decoded
The term sheet is the key document that determines the basis on which VCs and other investors will invest in your startup This means that its crucial to get the basics right from the outset ...
The UK's focus on personal accountability for bank employees: a sign of things to come?
Last month we discussed the carrot in the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards - how the regulators are making sure remuneration for bank staff encourages prudent risk behaviour This month we are looking at the stick - how the UK is strengthening regulators enforcement armoury to enable ...
Productivity Commission identifies major deficiencies in workplace relations framework
The Coalitions industrial relations policy for the last election included a proposal to have the Productivity Commission review and make recommendations about improving the Fair Work Act so that the Coalition could take the recommended changes to the next election The proposal is now unfolding with ...
High Court rules on freezing orders for prospective overseas judgments
The High Court of Australia recently upheld the Western Australian Court of Appeals decision allowing for the WA Supreme Court to make freezing orders for a prospective judgment in Singapore The core of the decision was a finding that the federal jurisdiction of state Supreme Courts to register ...
Proposed industry funding model for ASIC
Treasury has released a Consultation Paper seeking comments on a proposed industry funding model for ASIC Under the proposed model the costs of ASICs regulatory activities will be recovered directly from the companies and other entities that are regulated by ASIC - at a direct cost to industry of ...
Allens insights: Unconventional oil and gas in Australia: a case of regulatory lag
In this article Allens Senior Energy Resources Counsel David Maloney reviews existing Australian petroleum and mining legislation relating to the regulation of unconventional oil and gas examines some of the recent policy responses in relation to coal seam gas developments in agricultural lands the ...