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Keeping On Top of Corporate Changes Down Under

With effect from the commencement of the new financial year in July 2017, the Australian federal and state governments implemented a range of legal and regulatory changes, which could affect entities undertaking or contemplating investments in Australian land, companies or businesses or who are seeking to establish operations in Australia. We have summarised four of these key changes below.

Australia, Corporate Finance/M&A, Immigration, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Squire Patton Boggs, Foreign direct investment, Safe harbor (law)
Financial services update December 8 2014 insights

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) published the ISDA 2014 Resolution StayProtocol (the “Protocol”) on November 12, 2014 in response to continued efforts by regulators to build additional flexibility into the statutory regimes that would apply in the event of the insolvency of a major financial institution.

USA, Derivatives, Insolvency & Restructuring, Winston & Strawn LLP, Financial regulation, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
Twenty days and twenty nights, I was wrong and the lawyers were right, all along: register your security interest on the PPS register within 20 business days!

Case Note: Re Cardinia Nominees Pty Ltd [2013] NSWSC 32

Facts of the case

Cardinia Nominees Pty Ltd (Cardinia) agreed to lend Inika Pty Ltd (Inika) the sum of $750,000, in exchange for the issue of convertible bonds to Cardinia. The loan was secured by a charge in favour of Cardinia over the whole of Inika’s assets.

Australia, New South Wales, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Squire Patton Boggs, Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)