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Allens advises on refinancing of US$3.5bn Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal
Allens has advised a syndicate of 22 financiers on the refinancing of the US$2.5 billion senior project financing facilities for the US$3.5 billion Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal ( WICET ) ...
Allens advises on A$50m financing of WA mineral sands project
Allens has advised Image Resources on the A$50 million financing of its Boonanarring mineral sands project. Image has now met conditions precedent for drawdown in the loan note subscription ...
Allens advises on Ravenhall Prison Project refinancing
The Ravenhall Prison Project was designed and built and is being maintained and operated by the GEO Consortium under a public private partnership arrangement involving The GEO Group Australia, ...
Allens advises Plenary Schools consortium on refinancing
Allens has acted for the consortium since its successful tender for the Project from the Queensland Government in 2013. Over the past five years, the consortium has successfully delivered two ...
Allens bolsters Banking & Finance team with new senior hire
David joins as Managing Associate, in what is his first role since returning to Australia from Hong Kong. In the eight years he spent overseas, David worked at Allens' global alliance partner ...
High Court rules mining leases and native title can co-exist
The High Court ruled that certain mining leases in WA did not extinguish all native title rights, but rather the two rights co-exist. In doing so, the High Court took the opportunity to clarify the test for determining when native title rights will be extinguished by statutory grants at common law. ...
ASIC's no action position on the wholesale/retail test for self-managed super funds
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that it will take no action where a self-managed superannuation fund trustee is treated as a wholesale client notwithstanding that the trustee does not have to meet the 10 million net asset threshold even though the financial service ...
The ramifications of a Facebook rant
The Full Court of the Federal Court recently handed down its decisions on an appeal that highlights the dangers of making unsubstantiated social media comments Partner Miriam Stiel and Lawyer Tracy Lu report on a long-running dispute where the court found personal Facebook posts constituted ...
Managed investment trusts - the new regime
Exposure draft legislation to implement long-awaited changes to the tax regime for managed investment trusts is expected to be issued shortly ahead of the regimes recently announced start date of 1 July 2015 Partner Katrina Parkyn recaps some of its expected key features and likely impacts on the ...
Managing shareholder activism - who is in the driver's seat?
The recent New South Wales Supreme Court decision of Molopo Energy Limited v Keybridge Capital Limited reflects the continuing growth of shareholder activism in the Australian corporate landscape The case is a reminder that boards need to remain aware of developing activist strategies particularly ...