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'Publish what you pay' may be on its way!
Insight 03 Nov 2014

A new Bill has been introduced into the Federal Parliament which might herald the arrival of publish what you pay legislation in Australia Partner Igor Bogdanich and Senior Associate Penny Alexander examine the background to the Bill together with the implications for Australian companies operating ...

New corporate laws to improve doing business in Vietnam
Insight 11 Mar 2015

A new Law on Enterprises aimed at making it easier to do business in Vietnam implements key changes to the regulation of all companies operating in Vietnam and will allow companies greater freedom in the activities they may conduct Partners Linh Bui and Robert Fish Senior Associate Chi Ha and ...

Corporate responsibility and anti-corruption legislation in India
Insight 10 Feb 2014

In the past 12 months the Indian Parliament has passed two important pieces of legislation relating to corporate social responsibility and the allegations of corruption made against public servants. How does it affect you? ...

Material adverse change
Insight 15 May 2014

In a recent decision the New South Wales Supreme Court held that a sufficiently significant failure to meet budget expectations could constitute a material adverse change and upheld the lenders right to serve a default notice and accelerate repayment on this basis Partner Diccon Loxton and Lawyer ...

Green Bonds have come to town
Insight 29 Apr 2014

Green Bonds have been part of the international capital markets landscape for some time and recently the World Bank announced the first A Green Bonds to be issued into the Australian debt capital market If developments in the European Green Bond market are a good indicator there is potential for ...

Government moves to abolish ACNC
Insight 04 Apr 2014

The Federal Government has taken the first step towards achieving its announced intention of abolishing the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and transferring some of its functions to the Australian Taxation Office and the yet-to-be-established National Centre for Excellence ...

Back to a future for employee share scheme options
Insight 17 Oct 2014

After talks of introducing a special tax regime for employee options in start-ups, the Federal Government has reverted back to the global norm of employee options granted by all companies generally being taxed on exercise ...

ASIC releases paper on collective action by institutional investors
Insight 26 Feb 2015

ASIC has released its consultation paper on collective shareholder actions which calls for feedback on a draft update to Regulatory Guide 128 The consultation paper illustrates ASICs current albeit preliminary views on the tension between fostering increased investor engagement on the one hand and ...

Senate may disallow FoFA regulations
Insight 19 Nov 2014

Senators Jacqui Lambie and Ricky Muir this morning joined a group of cross-bench Senators in announcing that they would vote with Labor and the Greens to disallow the Governments FoFA regulations made in June this year - the Corporations Amendment Streamlining Future of Financial Advice Regulation ...

Sensible changes proposed to the Australian taxation of ESS interests
Insight 27 Mar 2015

Sensible changes have been proposed to the taxation of employee share schemes in the new tax legislation before parliament. ...

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