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Allens advises DuPont on ACCC clearance
Allens has secured ACCC clearance on behalf of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ( DuPont ) for its proposed merger with The Dow Chemical Company ( Dow ). The ACCC decision follows DuPont's joint ...
Allens advises on Australian-first dementia village
Allens has provided pro bono advice to Social Ventures Australia on the financing of the ground-breaking Korongee dementia care village. The first of its kind in Australia, the village is designed ...
Allens advises Unibail-Rodamco on A$32bn acquisition of Westfield
Allens is pleased to be advising Unibail-Rodamco on its proposed acquisition of Westfield Corporation for an enterprise value of US$24.7 billion (A$32.7 billion), which will be effected by ...
Material adverse change
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
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 ...
Managed investment trusts - the new regime
Exposure draft legislation to implement long-awaited changes to the tax regime for managed investment trusts is expected to be issued shortly ahead of the regimes recently announced start date of 1 July 2015 Partner Katrina Parkyn recaps some of its expected key features and likely impacts on the ...
Short on solutions for a growing problem
The Financial System Inquirys interim report devotes a lot of space to superannuation but doesnt have a great deal to say What is missing from the report is any vision for a retirement income system and it is hard to see how the FSI will bring about any significant changes It is also hard to see ...
Review of Card Payments Regulation
The level of public interest and popular support for regulation targeting excessive surcharging makes card payment regulation likely to be one of the first areas of reform following the publication of the Final Report of the Financial System Inquiry the FSI Report ...
The best interests duties - process or outcome?
Superannuation fund trustees and their lawyers including this one have been grappling for years with what the covenant in section 522c of the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993 means What must a trustee do to exercise its powers and discharge its duties in the best interests of ...
MySuper and promoting the financial interests of MySuper beneficiaries
An examination of a trustees duty to promote the financial interests of its MySuper beneficiaries is it outcomes-based or process-based ...