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Giving new meaning to 'going off grid': can alternatives to utility scale generation solve the energy transition?
Challenges facing the energy transition present opportunities for consumers and investors. Can alternatives to utility scale generation solve the energy transition? ...
Opportunities for private capital to increase renewables investment, despite the transmission logjam
Amid fears that Australia's ambitious grid buildout is falling behind schedule, how are investors continuing to deploy capital in renewables projects? ...
Jumping the starter's gun – what banks and clients utilising derivatives can learn from ASIC's new guidance on pre-hedging
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has released guidance clarifying its expectations in relation to a bank, or other intermediary, pre-hedging derivative exposures. Â ...
Allens advises BWP Trust on its $75 million loan note facility
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 ...
Vietnam adopts more stringent rules on ownership in banks and their operations
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. ...
Allens again tops project finance rankings
In FY23, the firm advised on the financing of a number of key infrastructure projects, including advising: the syndicate of lenders on Squadron Energy's innovative portfolio debt financing package ...
Allens advises on financing of 414MW Uungula Wind Farm
Once completed, the wind farm is expected to have a capacity of 414MW, generate enough electricity to power more than 220,000 homes and prevent more than 560,000 tonnes of carbon emissions from bei ...
Payments regulation reform update: the Government consults on the regulation of payment service providers
The Treasury recently published a further consultation paper in connection with its proposal to introduce a new licensing framework for payments-related activities. It refines and clarifies the proposals in the previous consultation paper published in June 2023. ...
Allens advises Pacific Equity Partners on FirstCape investment
The proposed transaction sees PEP acquire a 35% stake in FirstCape, with NAB and Jarden Wealth retaining shareholdings of 45% and 20% respectively. Allens advised on all Australian law aspects of t ...
FIRB fee changes aimed at increasing affordable housing supply
On 10 December 2023, the Federal Government announced changes to the Foreign Investment Review Board residential land fee rules, designed to 'improve housing affordability and supply'. ...