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Melbourne Metro and Endeavour Energy win PFI awards
Allens' market-leading project finance team has been recognised in two categories in the Project Finance International (PFI) Awards, including Infra Deal of the Year for its role on the Melbourne ...
Accolades for Allens at FinanceAsia awards
Allens has been named Best Financial Law Firm Australia 2016 by FinanceAsia at its annual awards. Managing Partner, Richard Spurio said he was delighted to have the firm's work on market-leading ...
New wind farm planning code and guideline for Queensland
The Queensland Government has announced a new wind farm planning code that shifts the responsibility for assessing wind farm developments from local governments to the State Government and provides a consistent approach to assessing wind farms across the State Partner Bill McCredie Associate David ...
Federal Government passes wide-ranging data retention laws
Telecommunications and internet service providers will incur significant new compliance costs under the Federal Government's controversial new data retention laws. ...
Workplace Relations
Workplace Relations: We look at an adverse action case; why a redundancy doesn't constitute a termination; the importance of a consistent process to deal with workplace bullying; the fairness of a dismissal for failing workplace drug tests; and preventing an employee going to work with a competitor ...
New ASIC funding - looking beyond the headlines
Along with the public release of the ASIC Capability Review Report the Government announced a suite of reforms giving ASIC additional but targeted funding and has also sought to remove some of the shackles on hiring it believes may be hindering ASICs ability to recruit top talent At the same time ...
New guidelines for unsolicited proposals for State-owned land in WA
The WA Government has issued its formal guidelines for unsolicited proposals for the sale or lease of State-owned land By embracing the possibility of unsolicited proposals as opposed to encumbering every development opportunity with a procurement process and by expressing a willingness to engage ...
Blockchain and why smart contracts still need smart lawyers
There has been so much talk about blockchain and distributed ledger technology recently especially in financial services that you might be forgiven for thinking it might be more hype than substance But we think it could be very important technology ...
ASIC getting a bigger toolkit sooner than expected
In its response to the capability review into ASIC the Federal Government has made a commitment to accelerate the implementation of a product intervention power for ASIC and the product design and distribution obligations for the financial services industry but it left to one side some other ...
Green Renaissance in Australia
After more than three years of inertia, the Australian renewable energy industry is finally showing signs of a resurgence ...