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Thriving in an era of scrutiny: Culture and conduct
Legal and compliance leaders should act now to combat serious and increasing legal and reputational risk ...
Allens appoints five new partners
Allens is pleased to announce the appointment of five new partners: Chris Blane, Benjamin Downie, Linda Govenlock, Chung Le and Scott McCoy. Franki Ganter, who joined the firm as an M&A specialist ...
Allens lends a hand to Global Health
Allens has advised the Global Health Investment Fund ( GHIF ), a private investment fund whose mission is to finance late-stage drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for diseases that disproportionately ...
Recent decision on FoFA advice provisions - ASIC v NSG
The recent case of ASIC v NSG Services Pty Ltd considers the FoFA best interests and appropriate advice provisions, as well as obligations of licensees. While the facts of the case provide an extreme example of how advisers and licensees can fail to comply with these duties, it also provides some us ...
Clearing the way for social impact investing
The Commonwealth Treasury is seeking feedback on how to kickstart social impact investment in Australia ...
Anti-bribery laws and deferred prosecution agreements
The Australian Government is via two new consultations proposing wide-ranging reforms to tackle the challenges that it faces in detecting and prosecuting serious corporate crime ...
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing: Key questions for boards and executives in 2017
Australian boards and senior executives are expected to maintain oversight of risk and compliance issues including bribery, sanctions, human rights and anti-money laundering. ...
Employment Law
This Insight examines the latest developments in employment law ...
'Tough cop' ASIC vs a Royal Commission
Has talk of a royal commission turned the ASIC Capability Review into an unlikely catalyst for an enhanced enforcement agenda With Labor pushing hard for a royal commission into the banking and financial services industry and an election looming the Government moved swiftly to announce broad reform ...
ASIC getting a bigger toolkit sooner than expected
In its response to the capability review into ASIC the Federal Government has made a commitment to accelerate the implementation of a product intervention power for ASIC and the product design and distribution obligations for the financial services industry but it left to one side some other ...