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Audio: New rules on trading and retail activities in Vietnam
With its young population and fast growing middle class Vietnams trading and retail market has become very attractive to foreign investors in recent years The Vietnamese government has recently issued new regulations Decree 092018ND-CP Decree 09 on trading and trade-related activities of ...
Vietnam's new regulations on corporate governance for public companies
A decree that aims to improve the corporate governance regime for public companies in Vietnam has been issued and comes into effect August 2017 Our team reports on the key changes ...
Crowd sourced equity funding to gain traction with new legislation
After a difficult journey both Houses have passed the Corporations Amendment Crowd-sourced Funding Bill 2016 - introducing a new funding avenue for Australian startups and an opportunity for retail investors to access equity in emerging companies ...
Successor Fund Transfers - all aboard!
APRA yesterday released a draft guide on transferring a member's benefit from one superannuation fund to another without their consent. The interpretation adopted provides minimal protection to superannuation fund members. ...
Getting the deal through: Project Finance 2018
Allens Partners Michael Ryan and Ben Farnsworth discuss some of the issues relevant to project finance in an Australian context including security packages navigating the Personal Property Security Register and foreign investment issues in their contribution to this global project finance roundup ...
'Bordering on impossible' that husband and wife duo were independent contractors
The Federal Court decided that a husband and wife who worked from home and sometimes outsourced their work were employees instead of independent contractors, making the employer guilty of sham contracting, underpayments and other breaches. ...
ASIC's report on member experience of superannuation - ASIC continues to set a high bar
ASIC Report 529 Member experience of superannuation released just a day before the Productivity Commission officially sets its sights on assessing the state of the superannuation system serves as a timely reminder of the ever-increasing expectations of the conduct and disclosure practices of ...
Employment & Safety
In this issue we look at the Fair Work Commissions support for unpaid domestic violence leave and casual conversion clauses an unfair dismissal following a breach of a zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy proposed WHS amendments in Queensland and another enterprise agreement is terminated ...
Queensland foreign stamp duty surcharge - relief guidelines issued
New relief guidelines have been issued on Queensland's foreign stamp duty surcharge ...
The beginning of the end of the unit trust's monopoly? CCIV legislation and ASIC guidance
Avid readers of Unravelled over the past few years cannot have failed to notice that there are moves afoot to introduce two new forms of collective investment vehicle each promising a shiny tax-neutral alternative to the unit trust and hopefully saving Australian lawyers a lot of sleepless nights ...