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Linklaters Insights: Are you ready? – Implications of a no-deal Brexit for UK listed companies
In this update, our colleagues at Linklaters highlight the impact of Brexit on the prospectus, transparency and market abuse regimes for UK listed companies, if the United Kingdom leaves the EU on or after 31 October 2019 without a withdrawal agreement and transition period (a 'no-deal' Brexit). ...
ASIC Corporate Governance Taskforce Report
ASIC has released its first report focusing on director and officer oversight of non-financial risk in seven large financial services companies (the First Report). While the report focuses on financial services companies, ASIC points out expressly that all companies, regardless of sector, should read and engage with the findings of this report. ...
All that glistens isn't Goldsky – key learnings from the ASIC v Goldsky decision
The recent case of ASIC v Goldsky Global Access Fund raises a number of compelling questions (some of which we explore below), and fund managers would do well not to place too much stock in the judgment in support of arguments that a trustee of a wholesale fund may act as trustee with the benefit of ...
Personal Property Security regime commences in PNG
The commencement of the personal Property Security regime means an important changes to the companies transact business's report in Papua New Guinea. ...
Revisions to FIRB Guidance Note 23: clarity for foreign government investors
Recent reforms to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 Cth introduced new provisions that deem foreign government investors of the same country to be associates of each other These provisions have created practical difficulties for foreign government investors who risk unintentionally ...
New ASIC funding - looking beyond the headlines
Along with the public release of the ASIC Capability Review Report the Government announced a suite of reforms giving ASIC additional but targeted funding and has also sought to remove some of the shackles on hiring it believes may be hindering ASICs ability to recruit top talent At the same time ...
Green Renaissance in Australia
After more than three years of inertia, the Australian renewable energy industry is finally showing signs of a resurgence ...
AMITs are here (at last)
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 ...
Brexit and financial services regulation
The idea that the UK could on leaving the EU simply walk away from a significant amount of EU financial services regulation seems fantastical It is likely that the UK will instead have to adopt on exit vast amounts of EU financial services regulation However the UK will have no say on the future ...
Local issuers, international format
At the same time as more international issuers appear to be looking at international programme formats for their Australian dollar issuance so Australian borrowers are contemplating the use of EMTN programmes even for their domestic currency issuance ...