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'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 ...
A long time coming: The Retirement Income Streams Review Report
Going into the 2013 election the present Government promised a review of the regulatory framework for retirement income streams Today the Government finally released its report It has been a long time coming And while the main outcome - a new category of tax effective pensions and annuities - will ...
Seeking judicial advice on whether to seek judicial advice
For more than 150 years trustees have been able to obtain advice from courts on matters affecting the management or administration of trust property and on matters respecting the interpretation of trust deeds Trustees would usually only seek such advice however if they had doubts about a proposed ...
Allens advises China Construction Bank on Pacific Hydro acquisition financing
Allens has advised China Construction Bank Corporation, Sydney Branch on two syndicated facilities of approximately A$1 billion and US$1.7 billion to fund the acquisition of Pacific Hydro and other ...
Allens acts in ACCC merger clearance for Shell's A$98 billion (GBP 47 billion) takeover of BG
After a detailed merger review, on 19 November 2015, the ACCC unconditionally cleared Royal Dutch Shell Plc's A$98 billion takeover of BG Group Plc. This is one of the largest takeovers in corporat ...
Allens advises on $314m sale of Melbourne office tower
The purchase of 595 Collins Street in Melbourne from South Korea's National Pension Service, is the first time FHJ has invested in Australian property. Comprised of two interconnected buildings, th ...
Allens advises on Australia's first waste-to-energy facility
Allens has advised on the financing of Australia's first commercial-scale waste-to-energy facility in Kwinana, Western Australia, which has reached financial close. A separate Allens team advised ...
Allens advises Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners on $1.6 billion consortium acquisition of PEXA
Allens has advised Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners ( MSIP ) on its proposed acquisition, alongside consortium members Link Administration Holdings Limited and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ...
Allens advises on successful investment in Melbourne Square development project
Allens has advised one of Malaysia's leading property developers, PJ Development Holdings Berhad, a subsidiary of OSK Holdings Berhad, on the investment by a subsidiary of the Employees Provident ...