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Court confirms life easier for default interest clauses post-Paciocco
Insight 06 Dec 2016

New South Wales Court of Appeal case Arab Bank Australia v Sayde Developments considered the application of penalties doctrine to default interest rate provisions in load agreements post the high court's libera approach to the doctrine in Paciocco v ANZ. ...

Statutory assumptions for lenders dealing with companies - useful but are they limited?
Insight 03 Feb 2014

This Insight examines the use of statutory assumptions under S129 of the Corporations Act by banks and others, in light of a recent decision of the NSWCA. ...

The end of the PPSA transitional period - what happens now?
Insight 24 Jan 2014

With the end of the transitional period under the personal property securities legislation fast approaching those entities that rely upon having interests in property held by others must act now to ensure those interests are properly registered even where they are transitional so there is no loss of ...

AMITs are here (at last)
Insight 02 Jun 2016

It has taken a while but out of the dust of an early Federal Budget and double-dissolution election announcement a new tax attribution regime for Attribution Managed Investment Trusts has emerged relatively intact While the AMIT regime should generally be welcomed as a positive thing for MITs in ...

Personal Property Security regime commences in PNG
Insight 10 May 2016

The commencement of the personal Property Security regime means an important changes to the companies transact business's report in Papua New Guinea. ...

Mandatory margining: APRA final rules released
Insight 20 Oct 2016

APRA has released its long-awaited Prudential Standard CPS 226 Margining and risk mitigation for non-centrally cleared derivatives While these rules are based on the Draft released in February of this year and address some of the concerns raised during the consultation process there are still a ...

Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement: strengthening cross-border investment
Insight 23 Apr 2014

The landmark Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement is expected to further strengthen the established complementary economic relationship between the two countries, and to provide new opportunities for cross-border investment and trade. ...

High Court examines powers of responsible entities
Insight 07 Nov 2014

The High Court has reaffirmed the powers of a responsible entity are ultimately derived from the scheme's constitution, but the exercise of those powers is constrained by the statutory and fiduciary duties imposed on the responsible entity. ...

Fighting to protect Fintech innovations
Insight 03 Dec 2014

The growth of financial services technology or Fintech as it is now called has exploded in recent years yet many of its creators dont realise that their innovations are patentable ...

Corporate law developments
Insight 15 Jun 2018

Welcome to our monthly snapshot of regulatory updates and other developments in corporate law We know you are busy so our focus is on capturing key issues ...

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