Specialty Group: Corporate and M&A

In June 2015, whilst the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was before the Senate Estimates Committee, the ASIC Chairman, Greg Medcraft, raised the idea of making companies liable under new civil pen ...

Contact: Leigh Drummond, ESV (New South Wales, Australia) The Federal Government has recently changed the business name registration system in an effort to prevent new business names being registered which are ...

Contact: Audine Bartlett, Senior Associate, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The Senate Economics References Committee’s Inquiry into Foreign Bribery (Senate Inquiry) has very broad terms of reference. ...

Contact: Simon Stokes; Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is the most important piece of consumer law since the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. It comes into force on 1 October 2015. I ...