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Allens advises China's Tianqi Group on lithium joint venture
Allens has advised the Tianqi Group, China's largest producer of lithium-based chemicals, on its US$1 billion lithium joint venture with Rockwood which closed today. Allens advised Tianqi Group on ...
Allens acts on string of bond deals for infrastructure companies
Allens has acted on the latest example of a single asset infrastructure company entering the domestic debt capital markets. Perth Airport Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Perth Airport Development Group ...
Linklaters and Allens advise Bank of China Sydney on landmark Renminbi deal
Alliance partners Linklaters and Allens have acted for Bank of China Limited, Sydney Branch on its CNY 2 billion note offering which was completed on 16 April 2014. This transaction marks the first ...
Allens advises lenders on $22 billion debt financing
Allens has acted for a syndicate of 20 lenders that is providing the $22 billion needed for shopping centre group Westfield Group to complete its restructure and merge its Australian and New Zealan ...
Allens advises on groundbreaking renewable energy funding deal
Allens has advised Infrastructure Capital Group ( ICG ) on the successful A$205 million issue in the US Private Placement ( USPP ) market by Hallett Hill No.2 Wind Farm. The transaction is ...
Bank technology failures: A new frontier for regulatory intervention?
The UKs regulatory authorities have imposed the largest ever fines in Europe for technology failures in the financial services industry following a serious IT incident affecting more than 65 million customers in the UK It should serve as a cautionary tale for Australian financial institutions ...
Foreign pension funds to access reduced withholding tax rate
Legislation has been introduced into Federal Parliament to allow foreign pension funds to access the managed investment trust withholding tax regime with effect from 1 July 2008 Partner Katrina Parkyn and Associate Scott Lang examine the proposed legislation and its implications for foreign pension ...
Fighting to protect Fintech innovations
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 ...
The disallowance of the FoFA Streamlining Regulation - what has been missed in all the noise?
The Senates disallowance of the Corporations Amendment Streamlining Future of Financial Advice Regulation 2014 was messy However the same could be said of the process by which FoFA was originally enacted ...
Taxation of certain unit trusts - 'attribution' model to replace 'present entitlement'
You may be forgiven for having lost track of the proposed reforms to the taxation of managed investment trusts or MITs given that this initiative has been announced by successive Federal governments since 2010 Finally though an exposure draft of new legislation is expected to be released before ...