After a relatively subdued 2023, the report's authors are calling 2024 as the year of the exit, with improved macroeconomic conditions providing the ideal environment for PE sponsors to sell assets ...

Samantha joins the firm's Brisbane office and brings with her more than 20 years' experience advising on strategic and complex safety, employment and industrial relations matters. 'Sam is widely ...

On 9 February 2022, the Commonwealth Government tabled in parliament its reforms to unfair contract terms laws via the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Tax Integrity and Supporting Business Investment) Bill 2022 (Cth). Given the imminent passage of these reforms, now is the time to prepare your organisation for the changes and review and amend any potentially problematic standard form contracts. ...

As part of the deal, Sony also obtained publishing rights over the catalogue of song writing and producing team Vanda, Young & Wright, which includes 'Friday on my Mind' by The Easybeats and 'Love ...

Two recent decisions - Hornsby Shire Council v Commonwealth; and Landcom v Commissioner of Taxation - have rejected constitutional challenges to the notional goods and services tax (GST) voluntarily paid by the Commonwealth, states, local councils and statutory authorities. ...

BWP Trust is an ASX-listed real estate investment trust investing in and managing commercial properties throughout Australia. The majority of BWP Trust's properties are large format retailing ...

In this Insight, we examine the in-fill affordable housing incentive bonuses, the two-part Transport Oriented Development Program and the proposals to use government land to increase housing supply. ...

A new practice note on dispute avoidance and adjudication boards (DAABs) was released by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) late last year. ...

The newly passed Law on Credit Institutions 2024 (effective from 1 July 2024) will lower the ownership limits in Vietnamese credit institutions to address cross-ownership issues. It will also impose stricter ownership disclosure requirements to increase market transparency. ...

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, global sanctions proliferated rapidly. This trend continued in 2023, and the World Trade Organisation estimates that 12% of global trade is now affected by sanctions. ...