The final report of the Financial System Inquiry recommended that APRA-regulated superannuation trustees be required to offer a comprehensive income product for retirement This rather modest recommendation in the final report stands in stark contrast to the retirement phase policy options canvassed ...

The recent settlement of the Great Southern class action raises a number of interesting and important issues not only because the court took the unusual step of publishing its reasons for judgment after the settlement had been announced ...

New tax legislation has been introduced to Parliament that contains tax concessions for employees of small start-up companies who are granted employee shares and options Partner Sarah Bernhardt and Senior Associate Shaun Cartoon members of Allens Accelerate team report ...

Our Contract Law Update provides an overview of important contract law decisions by Australian appellate courts in the past 12 months and considers their significance for the development of Australian contract law ...

The Federal Government and Labor opposition yesterday announced that they had reached a long-awaited agreement to lower the Renewable Energy Target from 41000GWh to 33000GWh Partner Grant Anderson and Senior Associate Alex Purtill report ...

The Queensland Government has passed legislation now currently awaiting assent that is the first stage of a program to rationalise the regulatory regime for all types of resources tenure in Queensland Partner Ben Zillmann Managing Associate John Hedge Senior Associate Gobind Kalsi and Associate ...

The Financial System Inquirys final report has been released We havent tested this with Word Cloud but we think the report can best be encapsulated in the word however The financial system has held up well however And what follows the however is often bold and sometimes radical There are five ...

Allens has advised News Corp on the merger between Foxtel and Fox Sports, finalised in a definitive agreement signed on 6 March. News Corp, which currently owns 100 per cent of Fox Sports and 50 pe ...

Allens has advised ASX-listed Reece Limited on its A$600 million equity raising to partially fund its acquisition of MORSCO Inc. for US$1.44 billion (A$1.91 billion). Reece is Australia's largest ...

Allens has advised Rio Tinto on the recently announced series of divestments of its coal assets in Queensland for US$4.15 billion. The transactions comprise binding agreements to sell Rio Tinto's ...