Today the Federal Government will introduce legislation that will significantly overhaul Australias foreign bribery laws and will also establish a deferred prosecution regime that is intended to provide an incentive for companies to self-report a range of serious white-collar crime matters The ...

Best practice guidelines for self-reporting of foreign bribery and related offending by corporations have been published by the AFP and the CDPP ...

Various new foreign exchange regulations governing the use of all types of foreign currency accounts including investment accounts of Vietnamese enterprises and their investors have recently come into effect The changes will affect current and potential foreign investors as well as foreign-invested ...

Australia continues to expand its network of investment treaties In light of this Australian investors should consider a review of the treaty protections that apply to their foreign investments If a treaty includes an investor-State dispute settlement mechanism the investor may be able to resolve ...

In a shift from the previous Australian Governments position a free trade agreement between Korea and Australia which was recently concluded by the new Coalition Government will include investor-state dispute settlement clauses ...

As pressure from prosecution authorities increases it is becoming ever more important for international companies to be aware of the potential impact of criminal conduct committed by their executives and employees and the risks and liability the company may face as a result - not least in order to ...

If you have investments in European listed companies you should be aware of the EUs new Market Abuse Regulation and how it may impact you wherever in the world you are based ...

The availability of an investment agreement with the host government is fundamentally important for a foreign investor considering the development of a large-scale project in a developing country In its continued efforts to recapture inbound direct foreign investment the Government of Mongolia has ...

The Mongolian Parliament has adopted a new State Minerals Policy which will serve as the basis for amendments to the existing Minerals Law and other laws relating to the mining sector Partners Igor Bogdanich and David Wenger and Senior Associates John Koshy and Tserena Yumjav look at what the new ...

Perhaps the most important unanswered question in Australian class action law is how causation may be established in the context of a shareholder class action In the United States this issue has been addressed by the fraud on the market theory This week the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to ...